Ark Encounter Celebrates 5 Year Anniversary with Record Crowds Jake Sammons July 7, 2021 As the Ark Encounter celebrates its fifth anniversary today (July 7), the internationally popular life-size Noah’s Ark in northern Kentucky is seeing record crowds—with attendance returning to pre-pandemic levels and beyond—and is announcing future expansion plans which include a Tower of Babel attraction that will tackle racism issues, showing how all people groups have developed from one biological race.