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Weldon Mills Resort

A new adventure is coming to Carolina Crossroads, Featuring...

The Mid-Atlantic’s Next Great Destination

Weldon Mills Resort is the place for shared experiences, active days, and highlight-reel nights. It’s made to keep the good times rolling with more to do in a single location.

Centered around an indoor waterpark experience and featuring sports events, live entertainment, food, drink, a distillery, and open-air gathering spaces, the district brings together something for every age, every day.

Located along the busiest I-95 exit in the region, this is where families stay, groups compete, friends create moments, kids have a blast, and every visit feels a little different than the last.

From concerts and tournament weekends to family getaways and everyday escapes, Weldon Mills Resort serves 17 million people in less than a 4-hour drive with a one-of-a-kind experience.

Family enjoying a meal together at a restaurant table with pizza, salad, spaghetti, and bread basket.

Silhouetted hands raised in the air at a concert with purple and blue stage lights in the background.

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Mills, Music, Moments, And Memories

Roanoke Rapids has always carried a bigger ambition than just one venue or attraction. This is the next chapter in the story of a region shaped by the river, powered by mills, connected by rail, and long defined by people and movement. The Carolina Crossroads Amphitheatre where Dolly Parton helped make music history, and the surrounding district itself all proved the draw was real.

Now, that same spirit is being reshaped into a place where families can stay longer and do more together. Weldon Mills Resort builds on the legacy with an even more connected vision, designed to feel distinct.

It’s a unique destination where entertainment, sports, hospitality, food, and family fun come together every single day. More personal. More locally rooted. And more reasons to come back for something new.

Tour The District | Go Behind The Vision

Tour The District

From resort hospitality and all-weather indoor waterpark fun to open-air concerts and active outdoor play, every part of the district comes together as one seamless stay-and-play experience.

Drop in for a night or stay for a while. The resort hotel is for visitors to relax, recharge, and stay connected with accommodations designed for the modern family. Comfortable rooms, family-ready layouts, suites, room service, (an) on-site restaurant(s) and bar(s), and easy access to the district make the stay feel simple, flexible, and worth repeating.

Weldon Mills Distillery

Experience the award-winning legacy of Weldon Mills Distillery – voted North Carolina’s Distillery of the Year six years running. The distillery carries a local name with real credibility and presence. It brings craft and a true sense of character to the resort while connecting back to the location’s historic North Carolina roots.

Visit: www.weldonmills.com

Mattel Wonder Indoor Waterpark

Step into the Mattel Wonder Indoor Waterpark with iconic brands like Barbie and Hot Wheels, all wrapped up into slides, splash zones, pools, and weather-proof fun that never depends on the forecast. Unlike seasonal parks, our indoor facility provides an immersive escape regardless of the temperature outside. Designed for every season, and for every generation, this is year-round family fun.

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Adventure Park

Adventure Park adds active, outdoor fun with attractions built for repeat play. A high-energy destination, anchored by a signature ferris wheel, Adventure Park offers everything from a carousel and flying swings to prize-winning games and interactive play zones. Whether taking a morning stroll or enjoying the evening spectacles, the energy of the Adventure Park is always moving, providing families and groups with more reasons come back again and again.

Large Ferris wheel with purple cabins against a partly cloudy blue sky.

WELDON MILLS THEATRE

Experience the legacy of the Weldon Mills Theatre, a venue born from the dreams of Randy & Dolly Parton and now a 2,000-seat thriving hub for spectacular performances. For nights that call for something closer, the Weldon Mills Theatre adds an intimate live-entertainment experience to the district with concerts, comedy, and special events that keep the calendar active and the destination diverse.

Visit: www.weldonmillstheatre.com

Carolina Crossroads Amphitheatre

For a larger-than-life experience, we move outdoors. Spanning 90 acres with a capacity for 30,000 guests, "The AMP" features the largest stage on the Eastern Seaboard. The AMP brings national headliners and world-class festivals to our patch of Carolina clay, and creates open-sky event nights that complement the Weldon Mills Theatre.

Visit: www.carolinacrossroadsamp.com

Sports & Events Center

The ultimate sports destination built to welcome basketball, volleyball, pickleball, gymnastics, wrestling, mat sports, and more, all alongside conventions, group gatherings, and flexible event programming. Come for the competition and stay for everything around it. With world-class courts within a world-class resort, we offer a tournament experience like nothing else in the region.

And for our corporate partners, we offer flexible meeting spaces designed for major conferences and conventions, all set within a family-friendly destination that encourages both productivity and play.

Retail and Dining

A retail and dining experience anchored by North Carolina flavor with the best of everything that Roanoke River Valley has to offer. Enjoy a walkable mix of food, drink, and discovery that works before a show, after a tournament, during a family weekend, or simply as a reason to visit on its own.

the plaza

The central plaza should feel like part of the attraction. Flexible event programming, music, and room to gather makes this space the social heart of the district from daytime meetups to evening arrivals. At the center of it all sits our feature Show Fountain – a multi-sensory display of music, water, movement, and light that serves as the kinetic pulse of our plaza.

Carolina Crossroads Motorsports

When the engines fire, the ground shakes.
When the sled drops, it’s game on.
This isn’t a polite motorsports event.
It’s horsepower with a backbone.
Trackside tailgates. Roaring engines. Dirt in the air.
You don’t watch it — you feel it.

Website: www.carolinacrossroadsmotorsports.com

A Regional Catalyst

Within 4 hours of 17 million people exists one incredible destination. Located at the "Crossroads" of I-95, we are the central hub for the mid-Atlantic. At the Crossroads, every path leads somewhere worth staying. Weldon Mills Resort sits in a travel corridor already built for movement or even a respite on the drive from Tri-State to Florida.

We invite you to come and go and come again, for something new every time.

Map highlighting Roanoke Rapids and surrounding cities including Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Raleigh, Richmond, Charlottesville, Washington DC, Virginia Beach, and Wilmington.

Behind The Vision

Take a look through the plans and progress as Weldon Mills Resort comes to life.

Be there from the beginning

Get early updates and see the vision unfold as Weldon Mills Resort comes to life.

Thanks for being here early. Stay tuned for more and we’ll look forward to seeing you at the center of it all.

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Mattel Wonder Indoor Waterparks are not owned or developed by Mattel, Inc. or its affiliates (“Mattel”). The project is owned and developed by Carida Capital Group, which uses the Mattel marks under license. Mattel has not confirmed the accuracy of any statements or representations made herein.