After seeing someone elses images of "Rock-a-Hoola" abandoned water park I was so intrigued I gathered up the wife and headed for the old park from Las Vegas. I was waiting for the weather to cool off, but just couldn't wait to take the two hour trip...
Just for info:: the Lake Doris/Rock-a-Hoola/Discovery Park has been around since 1968 as a campground that developed into a waterpark. It's is the first waterpark ever created and was in and out of service for about 25 years before closing down for good in 2004. In the late 80's Lake Delores closed to be reopened as Rock-a-Hoola in 1990. filed chapter 11 in 2000. It became Discovery Park and reopened Memorial day in 2002 - yet closed in the summer of 2004 with over $3 million in debt. Despite being Discovery Park the owners never changed the signs or actual name on the park itself.
Here are a few images from the set I went out and took. I am still working on the set which are mostly stitched images of 8 to 12 shots each. May end up added some sky with clouds in the near future when they are all completed.
As you can see in the images, it's amazing the condition of the paint on the buildings as they are exposed to the sun and sandy wind day after day. Yet the buildings continue to look bright and they are still in excellent condition - though vandels have tore up the interiors.
The famous sign you can read from hwy 15 west bound to Barstow.
The Entrance to the Park #1 I have a full panno showing this show around throuh the entrance area.
Second entrance shot to the park...
One from inside the park.
These are from inside the park.
This is a section of the lazy river like raft ride. one that slowly moved riders on a big innertube around the park.
this one is from where the actual fast water slides use to be.
Here is where you entered and exited the lazy-river ride.
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