[C19fan]

This brings back memories. My father would take my sister and I to Action Park once a summer. The place was a blast. It was the first water park with a wave pool which seems obligatory to any water park. The thing to consider though was that original wave pool would go to twelve plus feet deep and the waves produced were at least three feet; you really felt like you were in the ocean. My guess is most of the death at the park were related to drownings at the wave pool. I am glad I was perhaps the last generation that was allowed to have fun.

[EEGator]

[PfromHoGro]

The definitive park from the “good ol’ days”:

~14 minute documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKDx_piZvsg

~17 minutes with more detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkW-ceNvck

The first 45 minutes of Jackass’s ACTION POINT movie is a wonderful homage to the ‘70s- miss it so.

[Darksheare]

Traction Park!
And the monorail that sank into the ground one year because it was overloaded and the pylon just..sank.

[Trump.Deplorable]

Every year someone does a story on Action Park

Mostly because of the looping water slide

[dead]

Great memories. I jettisoned multiple times out of the cement Alpine Slide, but once you left the concrete part, they had piles of big rocks for you to land on and break your fall. You wouldn't fly off the thing if you didn't go too fast, but if you didn't go fast enough, some bigger kid would smash into your ass going twice your speed, which would then also throw you off the slide.

You picked the bits of glass and rock out of your gashes and got back on line to go again. And while you were on line kids would spit down on you from the chair lift over your head.

[NittanyLion]

I went to Action Park as a teen - as I recall it was as nuts as described here...definitely got banged up. Great fun also though!

[V_TWIN]

I will be renting the Jonny Knoxville movie based on this park for the 4th weekend.....seems appropriate. lol

Also, watched a youtube vid with actual footage earlier..... Geez.....Shoulda called it “class action park”

[Renkluaf]

I did the Alpine Slide and didn’t think it was too bad. But then, I was only 20, immortal and stupid.

[pinkandgreenmom]

My grandfather lived in Sussex and we would beg my parents to take us there every time we made the trip up there. They never did.