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“You know you’re from New Jersey,” the chain email I receive roughly twice a year keeps telling me, “if you remember Action Park and were seriously injured there.” I assume every state has a similar list. Not being from those states, I can’t say for sure.
While I don’t count myself among the casualties, I was briefly knocked unconscious during a tumultuous tube ride down the Colorado River Rapids. That was in 1995, the second consecutive year we were ejected from the Park. I was merely guilty by association, wandering around in a daze, possibly concussed. On those same Rapids, a friend decided to tackle the Action Park employee monitoring the starting line, taking her down with him.
This seems crazy in retrospect, but Action Park was a lawless place. A place where people drowned in the wave pool on a regular basis. A place that tested a full-loop water slide with crash-test dummies (the dummies were decapitated). A place that bought the town of Vernon additional ambulances, to keep up with the volume of injuries.
How many people actually died at Action Park? Ask anyone born in Jersey between 1970 and 1984, and you’ll hear a ranging toll. Twenty. Thirty-six. North of 100. 8%. But the real answer is only six. Let’s review:
• In 1980, a 19-year-old park employee was killed on the alpine slide. His car jumped the track and his head struck a rock.
• In 1982, a 15-year-old boy drowned in the Wave Pool.
• A week later, a 27-year-old man from Long Island was electrocuted after falling out of his kayak on The Kayak Experience.
• In 1984, a man died of a heart attack supposedly caused by cold water in the pool beneath the Tarzan Swing (the drained Tarzan Swing pool is pictured above, courtesy of Abandoned But Not Forgotten.)
• Later that year, an 18-year-old from Brooklyn drowned in the Wave Pool.
• In 1987, another 18-year-old drowned in the Wave Pool.
Action Park shut its doors in 1996, and has since reopened as Mountain Creek Waterpark, with an increased emphasis on safety. So far, no deaths have been reported.
I realize this is a pretty narrow topic. But if anyone has any good Action Park stories, we’d love to hear them.
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Broke a rib on the inner tube water slide. Scraped much of the skin off of my left thigh on the Alpine Slide.
gosh i miss action park.
posted by Sheldon Siegel on 1-22-2007 at 1:26 pm
I lost a lot of skin on the Alpine Slide too.
I Went down the slide a total of 3 times in my life, and skinned myself twice.. Brutal… but that one time I made it…WOW
posted by Melanie T on 1-22-2007 at 1:51 pm
Wow, I am originally from New Jersey but I never heard of this place.
posted by Rhea on 1-22-2007 at 2:03 pm
I don’t blame that guy for dying of a heart attack due to the cold water at the Tarzan Swing… I remember it was utterly freezing. (It was in a grove of trees, so no sunlight ever reached the pool.)
You always saw people with horrible skin burns from the slide. Just recently, I went on one at Stowe, Vermont and found it to be painfully slow. Were the slides at Action Park slow too? I seem to remember zooming down the mountain on them.
posted by Erak on 1-22-2007 at 2:59 pm
My brother once sunk a bumper boat. He was over the weight limit, so he thought he was going to get into some serious trouble when they escorted him into their offices. It turned out they just wanted him to sign some documents so he couldn’t sue them.
posted by Erak on 1-22-2007 at 3:16 pm
I remember diving off the cliffs with my brother. As we were about to jump, he muttered something I couldn’t hear. So I jumped after him and ended up hitting the water – genitalia first – after the plunge. My brother’s words of wisdom: “Cross your legs or you’ll be in pain for weeks.” My nether-regions haven’t felt the same since.
posted by Adam on 1-22-2007 at 4:10 pm
Wow, the debut album by the band Shellac was entitled “at Action Park.” I thought it was a made up name but now I think it’s much cooler.
I’m 90 miles away from Disneyland. We had a fatal scalping a couple of years ago, and whiplash on the rollercoaster at California Adventure is fairly common.
posted by Jason on 1-22-2007 at 4:14 pm
i remember “skiing” there once winter, when they would call it “great gorge”. It was more like pushing yourself thru the mud to the next patch of slush so u could slide down again to some mud etc etc. It’s a strange type of skiing already, but when ur passing water rides along the way there’s not much else like it.
posted by knick on 1-23-2007 at 7:37 am
Weird New Jersey recently published a great article on Action Park. They are the definitive source on all New Jersey weirdness, great and small. And yes, they DO have a web site.
http://www.weirdnj.com
Enjoy!
posted by Rusty Stead on 1-23-2007 at 8:05 am
Yep, I thought I was doing something wrong every time I left a piece of myself on the Alpine Slide! That thing was brutal! It’s a wonder we don’t all have TB now.
posted by dina on 1-23-2007 at 8:53 am
A few years ago, a few friends and I jumped out of the 5(?) person tube of the “family tube ride” whatever it was called. A friend of mine’s suit got caught in one of the joints between tube sections and was ripped off. He ended up having to walk naked to get his towel (as none of us were willing to help… haha) The lifeguards were quick to tell us that wasnt the first time a “active swim suit removal” (their words) happened that month that week or even that day…
posted by Dan on 1-24-2007 at 5:40 pm
mountain creek is pretty sketchy too.
i know of people breaking their ankles when snowboarding or skiing in the winter and others getting neck injuries in the summer. they’ve complained and mountain creek’s basic response is,”oh well, sucks for you.”
it’s awesome.
posted by mikaila on 1-24-2007 at 11:04 pm
I started going to Action Park around 1981 at age 11 and it was was my favorite park on Earth. Maybe not always the “happiest place on Earth,” but definitely the World’s Largest Participation Park. As far as injuries…I always said that if you got injured, you know you had a good time. No offense to anyone who was or knows someone who was seriously or fatally injured. As a longtime motorcyclist and overall speed freak, I must say, alpine slides rule! If you took the intermediate slide at Action Park, you could catch air right around the big yellow slow down banner they had hanging from the trees. Wearing jeans and a jean jacket became a prerequisite for a fun fast ride on the slides. I forgot this rule in the early 90’s at Stowe and because I was wearing shorts, have the scars to remind me of my mistake. Oh yeah, and some people jokingly called it TRACTION Park, but never seriously, for fear of having the place shut down, which it eventually did. Don’t forget about Motor World….High Speed Go-Karts or Mini Lola cars anyone?
posted by Brian on 1-27-2007 at 11:11 pm
I grew up in NY, and as a kid I went to Action Park 3 or 4 times. It was by far the greatest place on earth. If you google Action Park there are a bunch of sites with pictures of the place, both new and old. I would love to go back to the east and see what the new park looks like.
posted by Greg on 2-1-2007 at 8:26 pm
Raised in Vernon from 1976-1990. As a right of passage I worked at Action Park and Vernon Valley Ski Resort in the winter while in High School. What memories that place gives. Most times it was like a M*A*S*H unit during the summer season. Nothing but weekend warrior tough guys from the city that thought they were impervious to injury. They were the first to go down. It was much fun and we all laughed.
posted by Action Jackson on 2-20-2007 at 12:54 pm
I didn’t weigh enough by a long shot as a skinny teenager to ride the tall water slide. In fact, I think I was just about the 100 lbs. required to ride the shorter one. I still hydroplaned and left with with a red, water-beaten back which throbbed in the July sun all day and beyond. I still rode the Tarzan swing like a champ, though.
posted by Big Blue on 6-26-2007 at 3:41 pm
Worked there in the summer of 84′ on the Super Go Karts as a ride attendant.
Witnessed many accidents from people not paying attention. Saw lots of blood and black eyes. Otherwise the ride was safe.
Was aware of the both deaths that year.
If I recall the place was owned and run by a N. Jersey family ( not going to mention the name)that didn’t care about public safety. Management was equally as bad. I remember many lawsuits filed. Working on the ski slopes during winter making snow was just as risky.
I am surprised the place was open until 1996. The state should have shut them down in the 80’s
posted by Scott on 11-2-2007 at 7:33 am
I went to Action Park with my ninth grade class in 95. Chipped my tooth upon impacting the water at the Tarzan Swing. Several of my friends wound up with cuts and bruises from other rides. Back then, we couldn’t believe how many minor (thank God) injuries so many of us sustained. Looking back now, its pretty evident. And looking at that above photo of the Tarzan Swing brings back memories.
posted by Liana on 11-30-2007 at 10:47 pm
My son years ago,he was about 7 then, went down the Action Slide in Cave City KY. It was horrible, according to a couple of witnesses at the top of the slide, a couple of teenage employees thought it would be fun to “knock someone off the slide”. Well they accomplished that, but not without harm. Most of the skin on his back was ripped off and the sled hit his head causing a concussion. To this day he still has memory problems as a result of the accident.
posted by Michelle on 12-3-2007 at 8:40 pm
“I assume every state has a similar list. Not being from those states, I can’t say for sure.”
here’s the upstate NY one –
YOU MIGHT BE FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK…
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Upstate New York.
If you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights a year because Saranac Lake is the coldest spot in the nation, and Syracuse gets more snow than any other major city in the US, you might live in Upstate, NY.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from October through May, you might live in Upstate New York .
If you get 131 inches of snow in a week and you comment that ‘winter’s finally here’, you might live near Oswego in Update New York.
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the year, you might live, bundled up, in Upstate New York.
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance, and they don’t work there, you might live in Upstate NY.
If your dad’s suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Upstate New York.
If you have worn shorts and a parka on the same day, you might live in Upstate New York.
If you have had a lengthy phone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Upstate New York.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE UPSTATE NEW YORKER WHEN:
“Vacation” means going South past Syracuse for the weekend.
You can grab your windshield wiper wile driving and nock the ice off it.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend/wife knows how to use them.
You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
Down South to you means Corning.
Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new shed.
You go out for a fish fry every Friday.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You find 10 degrees “a little chilly.” and 55 is shorts weather.
:)
posted by clotho on 12-19-2007 at 3:41 pm
I actually handled the claims for the insurance co. — it was amazing how many people were hurt — then they started selling these rides to other water parks ??????
it was a complete disaster–
posted by billy ryder on 3-3-2008 at 10:32 am
My family made it a summer event to go to Action Park from 1985-1988. It was the best park in the whole world for us. No wonder we’re still thrill seekers. We never got injured, of course, we knew how to swim and how to prevent from getting hurt recklessly. Our father (now 66) made us learn to swim in the Caribbean with the big waves and stuff; so we learned how to survive in Action Park. My mom has a photo of my sister on the tube ride taken by the park assistants once in 1988. We still sit and watch our kids at the pool remembering all those crazy day in Action Park!!
posted by Enid Moyeno on 5-14-2008 at 8:33 am
OH MY GOD! Does this bring back memories. I was there a bunch of times. At about the age of 13, in the early 80’s, I was there for the first time. This was before the speed slides and the infamous loop. This is when I was one of the casualties of the Alpine Slide. I remember the sled coming out from under me and getting 3rd degree burns on my legs and arms. Oh, did I suffer the rest of the day. I was back in the 90’s and saw the loop but it was closed and the park employees told us some of the horror stories. In the mid 90’s I was back again, and what do you know, the loop was actually open. I was weighed first, soaked down with a hose, and down I went. It rattled my head around so bad that when I hit the shallow puddle at the end I couldn’t even stand up. I looked like some drunk attempting a field sobriety test. My whole group just stood there laughing at me. Damn, that was so much fun. Thanks for the memories guys.
posted by Cygnus X1 on 7-25-2008 at 10:48 pm
Never got injured, but when I was 10 I had a knife pulled on me from a guy who wanted to skip the line. The ride attendant tried to tell him no and I just looked at attendant and said, let the man go!
Fortunately, security got him at the bottom of the ride.
posted by Melanie on 8-26-2008 at 8:32 am
I’ll just say that the worst thing that every happened to me at Action Park was when I wore a bathing suit with holes on the side and got oval shaped sunburns on my stomach. (Still refuse to go on the Tarzan Swing, though.)
Meanwhile, I took my boyfriend to Mountain Creek two years ago, and he almost drowned in the wave pool and lost his mat on the green slide.
posted by Liz on 8-26-2008 at 9:16 am
Omg! Went every summer for years (lived across the border in NY); we LURVED Action Park. Except for that full loop water slide; that scared the crap outa me just looking at it.
As an aside (possible TMI) girls had their own “better cross your legs” ride; specifically the long water slide. Wedgie doesn’t describe it. Ouch.
posted by Alli on 8-30-2008 at 11:02 am
I remember scapping my knee on the Alpine Slide, still have the scar, which is about the size of a 1/2 dollar. I remember going down the slide and hitting the mid-way point that was actually kind of flat and listening to the workers yelling “GO FASTER! GO FASTER! DON’T SLOW DOWN!” Guess they didn’t want who ever was behind you to come crashing and friggin’ killing you. Also I remember the employees routinely telling guests that no one knew how deep the water was on the Tarzan swing, and that it was “bottomless”. A comment that doesn’t instill a lot of confidence – now does it?
posted by Eric on 11-17-2008 at 2:06 pm
I don’t recall if it was the Tarzan swing or not (sounds like it from other descriptions) but it also had a water slide entrance right? It was basically a hole in the ground right? It was the entrance to a water slide completely in the dark that shot you out into space a good 15-20 feet above a pool. I remember standing there and wondering what happened after you got in the hole – you couldn’t see where it went – figured what the heck. It was great. Hitting the water was like swimming at the shore in February. All in all, non descript hole in the ground entrance, slippery as hell, tunnel in the dark, exit of tube a decent height above the water and freezing water. What more could I ask for?
The Alpine Slide – lost lots of skin on the sides of my elbows and knees. It was a hard thing to get the hang of. Joy stick – forward was wheels, neutral was some kind of slides and back was the break. They timed the entry without any knowledge of the condition of the track ahead of the rider they were allowing to enter. This lead to a lot of rear ending. When it was first operating I remember they charged you per ride. It was pretty expensive. Maybe we got three or four rides but by the second one you were pretty burned so it was tough to go all out as a kid.
Anyone remember the skateboard park? I remember a buddy going into a bowl – board started to wobble and wham! He went down – lost a front tooth. Good times!
posted by Chris Kinlan on 11-17-2008 at 3:39 pm
Action Park, what great memories.
I remember going there in the 80’s. I was going down the Alpine Slide and having that thing rip off my swim suit right along with suit of my 300 lb. date. Boy was she imbarassed. Everyone was screamimg “HELP, THERE’S A WHALE OVER HERE WITH A STICK THAT HAS TESTICALES”. Then on the Tarzan Swing, somehow the swing got caught around my friends nuts and streched them down four inches. Now we call him Strech NutStrong. Those were the days.
posted by Bert Doodle on 11-17-2008 at 5:31 pm
I mthink i still have a scar on my knee from leaving a GREAT deal of skin behind on the alpine slides. Ahh memories.
posted by Jeneva on 12-5-2008 at 10:33 am
I definitely remember Action Park, my cousin and his wife took me, and I had just barely learned how to swim. Of course I got on the Tarzan Jump, and they sent the lifeguards out to come and get me. I waved them off however, and swim my tail back to the shore with 2 lifeguards flanking me, to a round of applause. LOL Damm I miss that place. The Alpine Slide was the bomb!! Can’t believe it was closed… oh well it will be missed..
posted by James on 12-11-2008 at 9:58 am
what ever happend to the lola karts from action park. i would like to have or two.anyone thats has any info please let me know
posted by dan on 12-13-2008 at 6:45 pm
Remember going there when I was 10 years old and losing arm skin on the alpine slide. boy was that fun. They brought me to the first aid room and gave me a little band aid to cover the huge blister. well that was the way it was back then in the late 70’s
posted by Jim on 12-13-2008 at 11:56 pm
The Alpine slide had 3 levels, expert, middle and novice. We would go every summer from long island, drive almost 2-3 hours and love it. We would yell do or die! on the rides and go again and again. Once I scraped my left shoulder on the expert alpine slide and when I came down fast and knocked out the hay people clapped, but then the first aid guy scorned me for doing so and said who do you think you are Mario Andretti?
posted by shawn on 12-23-2008 at 1:05 pm
Greatest water park in the world– went there every summer from 85-92. Now i live in FL and hate the lame slides here. Took my son last year and he couldn’t believe it!! Cold water was worth it– I thought I saw someone walk on water trying to get to the ladder after getting off the tarzan swing.
The slide that goes through the mtn in the dark is called “cannonball”. My personal favorite!! My friend Rick used to do flips after he got out.
Best story was that they used to have large trout tanks in the summer. Rick dove in to one and tried to catch the fish. We were peacefully ejected from Waterworld– but then proceeded to invade the pool at the Americana Resort.
posted by Rob S. on 12-23-2008 at 3:10 pm
On the go-karts I had a very fast kart and eing the 15 year old jerk that I was, I would ram my friends into the wall and laugh at them. Then in the final lap when I see the carnies pull out the close gate I triumphantly take the lead and turn my back and start giving everyone the fingr and WHAMO! I smash right into the wall and get flipped out onto the track and get covered in dirt and grease and am cut in numerous places. How I did not get seriosuly injured is beyond me but it was something that everyone never forgot and they love to bring it up.
There isn’t one person who went to AP That did not leave with some kind of injury.
posted by Paul on 12-28-2008 at 11:12 pm
I too remember good old Traction Park. I remeber that at the top of the Alpine Slide while you were waiting in line you were subjected to pictures of people with their skin peeled off and the warning that this will happen to you if you don’t follow the rules. I never crashed but did have fun.
My little brother nearly drowned in the Wave pool and had to be pulled out by lifeguards.
And I can’t believe that nobody yet has mentioned that the whole damn park was built on the side of a mountain so it was like hiking the Appalachian Trail to get from one water slide to the next. Granted though the gravity made the rides go a lot faster then if you had just climbed some stairs to get to the top of a ride.
Fun times. never did find the glasses i lost on one slide though.
posted by Bill on 1-9-2009 at 2:33 pm
I was too young to be allowed to do anything fun the one time I was there. I remember, like it was yesterday, seeing some girl face plant HARD on a concrete platform after she let go of the rope pre maturely on the Tarzan Swing.
The billboards for Action Park had an illustration of some smiling kid, wind blowing his hair back, on an alpine slide. More than a few times I heard stories from neighborhood kids about how the Alpine Slide had serious overgrowth from bushes and trees. If you made it down the slide without getting whipped in the face from a branch or skinned somehow you didn’t get the full experience.
posted by Majewski on 1-11-2009 at 6:43 pm
When I went to the park, I lost my clothes on that terible slide. I had to walk alone with a bare naked body to my car, only to find out my keys were locked in it. Luckly, I had a ride from some strangers. One guy and five girls who gave me a ride to my home. the only thing was, was that I was butt assed naked all the way home, but we were drinking beer, so it wasn’t that bad.
posted by Mr.Bibble-Booble on 2-7-2009 at 5:54 pm
Alpine Slide caused me 6 weeks in the hospital. My legs got caught up and I ended going down with no control. I broke my left leg, broken a rib, neck injury and a broken wrist. On top of that I also lost 6 teeth. OMG what a nightmare that was, worse time of my life. But hey, I did have a lot of fun at the place sneaking in bottles of Whiskey and banging chicks in the employee locker rooms.
posted by Norman Gentle on 2-12-2009 at 2:09 pm
I used to work at Action Park in 1993, and I am pretty sure that there was a death of a young boy in the wave pool that summer too. I’m not surprised if it wasn’t on official record because that place was beyond sketchy.
It was a fun place, but so sketchy! I worked mostly on the speed slides and spent my days trying to talk people into taking the leap and consequent 15-foot free-fall before they would crash back onto the slide and get the wedgie of their lives -usually losing all their money at the bottom of the slide in the process. It would disorient them so much that they wouldn’t notice that mad cash had fallen out of their pockets. I would never go down that slide like you were supposed to -it would burn your skin off and was very uncomfortable. Those that worked there would only go down (head-first) on a mat -which was not officially allowed because you would be going so fast that you would practically fly off the thing. That would allow you to avoid the wedgie. It was pretty fun though, precisely because it was dangerous. The rapids ride had strong currents that could suck you down and disorient you in no time.
Also, I was not even certified as a life guard but I was given a “lifeguard” outfit and whistle and often had to fish people out of the water when they were drowning. Tons of the “lifeguards” there were in the same position. I didn’t mind because I was a great swimmer and mostly just had to tell people to “stand up!” when they were floundering around in 3 ft of water at the bottom of some little slide, but I thought it was misleading to call us all lifeguards when we weren’t.
It is true that Action Park would try to get us staff to test out bizarre rides that were were not safe for humans to be on. They bought one stupid “lifeguard” guy lunch in exchange for him test out that black circular looped enclosed water slide that exerted so much g-force on the body that you would almost lose consciousness if you went down it. For anyone familiar with basic physics, there is a reason why roller coasters have oval and not circular loops -whoever thought that circular loop water slide idea up was incredibly stupid. Whatever “engineers” or ride designers who built their rides up must have been completely insane or something. I knew of another poor staff “test rider” who broke their back trying out another new ride. At least that particular ride never got open to the public. It was pretty mean for Action Park to use their minimum wage teenage workers as human guinea pigs, but there would always be some idiot dumb enough to try a new ride.
posted by Mel S. on 2-13-2009 at 12:11 am
LOL a Water slide with a FKIN LOOP IN IT?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
That made me laugh so hard. I always wonder if one was possible but I GUESS NOT !
posted by Normgarry on 3-7-2009 at 11:24 pm
My dad was on a crew that built some of the rides there. When they finished one ride I was the first person to test it. I was maybe four at the time.
posted by Jared on 3-17-2009 at 9:24 am
What was the Alpine Slide like? Why so many injuries? What – were ya’ll sliding on bare fkin rock?
posted by Normgarry on 6-14-2009 at 12:53 pm
how did all of you people who got scraped avoid getting weird diseases lol.
posted by jessy on 6-29-2009 at 9:36 pm
I went to Action Park a few summers in a row when I was young with my family, probably early 90’s. That place was so much FUN! But of course you always heard the stories of all the accidents. I never personally got injured there, must have just been lucky I guess. But the funny, and scary, thing was that anything you went on had a disclaimer with it. I remember going on that roller slide, where you sat on a plastic board and it slid down a bunch of metal rollers and shot you out into a pool of water. CRAZY, the employees would tell you, “okay now don’t lean forward too much because you will flip it forward and smash your face, and don’t lean too far back because you will crack your head against the metal rollers and cut your head open.” So the whole time you are worrying about trying to remain sitting up perfectly straight while going like 50 mph down this slide. Then the free fall open water slide that went off the cliff, that was nuts!! I actually went on that at age 11, okay I don’t remember how high up it was, but all I remember is going off the slide, free falling, not knowing where the damn water was so holding my breath as soon as my body left the slide. Then hitting the water, which was freezing, going down, down, down, finally stopping and trying my damnest to swim back to the top, taking forever to find the surface of the water. When I finally got to the surface taking the biggest breath I could because I had been holding my breath for so long. Then trying to get the heck out of the way for the next jumper, not sure if they were going to send them down while I was still there. Like I said CRAZY!!
posted by Tristyn on 8-17-2009 at 4:29 pm
Action Park was the best place in the world and the Alpine slide was the greatest ride ever! I never took off any of my own skin but often caused a few slower riders, who “rode the brake” the whole way down, to fall off their carts and get that nice burn. What were they doing on the “expert” track any way? They practically ruined my ride. When the line was too long on the expert track, going down one of the beginner tracks was like “livin on the edge”! The sides of the beginner tracks were shorter than those on the expert track and thus it was easier to fall off. But if you made it more than halfway down and carried a lot of speed you could carry some air on the set of 3 jumps that was awesome. Lanes 9 & 10 on Surf Hill which featured a large jump were great! The Cannonball ride was a killer. After waiting on line in the sun for a half an hour, the attendant would spray you with freezing water from a hose so that you would be slippery enough to slide all the way through the black tube. Anyone who screamed or complained got sprayed a lot more. In the tube it was completely black and you smacked your head on the 90 degree turn. Then you started to see a small hole of light and then were spit out of the tube and fell 10 or 12 feet into icy water. At the end of the day you were exhausted but had the best time!
posted by Mike on 9-3-2009 at 5:05 pm
I went on that loop the loop water slide. I even did a bungee jump there! And lost the skin on my arm on the alpine thing.
But it was a great day out!
posted by Alf Atkins on 10-26-2009 at 5:56 am
Action Park had some sweet Indy cars, but the Alpine Slide was truly awesome….back in the day, I can remember my 78 yr old great-grandfather flying down the slide…when we all regrouped at the bottom, he was fine. It was my father and mother who both flew off the track and received some pretty good injuries.
posted by Jonzer Jackson on 11-4-2009 at 3:23 pm