DODGE CITY – Dodge City announced this week the name for their new aquatic park. The Long Branch Lagoon will open Memorial Day weekend 2016..

A joint committee including representatives from the City, County, Dodge City Convention and Visitor’s Bureau and two marketing professionals from the community selected the name, according to a media release from the city.

The deadline to submit entries was June 29 and a total of 186 entries were submitted.

In order to narrow the list of entries, each committee member was asked to choose their top five recommendations from the list of entries. The committee discussed their selections and established their top five choices to present to Community Facilities Advisory Board (CFAB). CFAB recommended the following three names to the Joint Commissions: Cowboy Cove, Long Branch Lagoon and Wrangler Rapids.

The winner of the naming contest received a family pass to the aquatics park for 2016.