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Maine's entertainment & sporting venues
Ranked by 2015 attendance
2015
Attendance
No. Employees
No. Volunteers Description
Top
executive
Year
founded
1 Sunday River Resort
15 South Ridge Road, Newry
04261
800-543-2754, sundayriver.com
500,000 1,400
N/A
Eight mountain peaks for skiing and snowboarding, 135 trails and six
terrain parks on 870 skiable acres, two resort hotels and hundreds of
condominiums
Dana
Bullen
1959
2 Funtown Splashtown USA
US Route 1, 774 Portland Road,
Saco 04072
284-5139,
funtownsplashtownusa.com
500,000 500
0
Northern New England's largest water and amusement park Violet
Cormier
1967
3 Hadlock Field Portland Sea Dogs
271 Park Ave., Portland 04102
874-9300, seadogs.com
368,291 15
1
N/A
Double-A Eastern League affiliate of the Boston Red Sox Geoff
Iacuessa
1994
4 Augusta Civic Center
76 Community Drive, Augusta
04330
626-2400, augustamaine.gov
330,000 106
N/A
Convention, exhibition and special high-impact facility owned and
operated by the City of Augusta
Earl
Kingsbury
1973
5 Androscoggin Bank Colisée
190 Birch St., Lewiston 04240
783-2009, thecolisee.com
325,000 60
15
Sports and entertainment venue hosting L/A Fighting Spirit home
games, mixed martial arts, public skating and more
Mike Cain 1958
6 Cross Insurance Center
515 Main St., Bangor 04401
561-8300,
crossinsurancecenter.com
209,251 N/A
N/A
5,800-seat, multi-purpose arena holds up to 8,500 people for concerts
and features an attached 2,000-person convention center
Joe
Imbriaco
2013
7 York's Wild Kingdom
23 Railroad Ave., York Beach
03910
363-4911, yorkswildkingdom.com
205,915 100
0
Zoo and amusement park Amy
Wheeler
1980
8 Darling's Waterfront Pavilion
1 Railroad St., Bangor 04401
358-9327, waterfrontconcerts.com
156,461
2
11
3
N/A
16,000 capacity outdoor concert venue located along Bangor's historic
Penobscot River waterfront
Elissa
Young
2010
1 An additional 200 seasonal, part-time employees
2 Summer 2016 attendance
3 An additional 450 seasonal employees
Sugarloaf of Carrabassett Valley does not disclose attendance figures. N/A = Not available.
This list was compiled by Stephanie R. Meagher
SOURCE: Each venue via survey, visitmaine.com and Maine Office of Tourism
1 An additional 200 seasonal, part-time employees
2 Summer 2016 attendance
3 An additional 450 seasonal employees
Sugarloaf of Carrabassett valley does not disclose attendance fi gures. N/A = Not available.
S O U R C E : Each venue via survey, visitmaine.com and Maine Offi ce of Tourism
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Ranked by 2015 attendance
