11/4/2022 0 Comments Abandoned water parkAs if straight from a post-apocalyptic movie, the park still houses remnants from a lively past-water slides, picnic tables and benches, shower rooms and bridges. This water park is sure to bring back some great memories for those who have visited in the past. It opened on June 1, 1976, and closed in November 2001. Photographer Seph Lawless recently visited River Country and captured eerie images of the once-bustling park, now left to rot in the elements. River Country Disney Abandoned Water Park Disney’s River Country was the first water park at Walt Disney World. (MORE: Black Friday-Haunting Images of Abandoned Malls by Seph Lawless) Disney's River Country and Discovery Island are the only Disney parks to close permanently. Today, the park is overgrown with trees, its rides and attractions rotting and crumbling, eerily reclaimed by nature. The water park is adjacent to another abandoned Disney park, Discovery Island. The family vacation destination featured attractions such as the White Water Rapids, a 330-foot long inner tube river Bay Cove, a half-acre sand-bottom lake which featured a tire swing, boom swing, rope climb, and T-bar drop and several water slides.īut in 2005, Disney's River Country ceased operations and was abandoned. In June 1976, Disney's River Country in Bay Lake, Florida, opened as Walt Disney World's first water park. The rides are still fully intact, adding to the spookiness because you can almost picture people actively enjoying their day before disappearing right in their tracks. But there's one water park that will definitely stay eerily silent. We don’t usually think of desolation and pure creepiness, but the now-abandoned Water Wonderland between Midland and Odessa is exactly that. This summer, families will no doubt flock to some of the country's water parks, water slides and swimming holes to enjoy the warm weather.
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