"One report claimed that in 1987 five to ten people per day were being brought into the emergency room from the park. The New Jersey Herald reported the park actually bought the town of Vernon additional ambulances to keep up with demand. Broken or fractured bones were common, as were busted teeth. Deaths were caused by, among other things, electrocution in a kayak ride, drowning in the wave pool and a heart attack in ice-cold water."
Hate to say it but I'm old enough to have experienced the original a few times. In this litigious society it would be near impossible to open up anything even remotely close to the original. Good times. Check out the alpine slide at :12. I donated quite a bit of skin to that sucker once. Also saw a guy leave the track on it and wreck as bad as anything you'd see in Olympic luge. [video=youtube_share;gB1kKDeyU8Y]http://youtu.be/gB1kKDeyU8Y[/video] Good times.......
Sounds amazing!!! All we had was a water slide park that closed on its first dead guy. Which took years and years, but 1st dead guy=park closed and torn down, In California anyway.
I grew up in Vernon, just moved outta there recently. They never really closed. The water park was open as Mountain Creek water park through the late 90's through last year. Just some marketing/PR by changing the name and getting people talking about it once again. Seems to be working out so far.
