The Abandoned & Dangerous Water Park in the Desert: Lake Dolores/Rock-A-Hoola | Expedition Extinct

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Join us on this expedition as we look at the abandoned water park in the desert. Located in California, Lake Dolores was a place full of fun and danger. Right next to Highway 15 this park took thrills to the max and some even called it the Action Park of the west.
After many years it was later reborn as Rock-A-Hoola, a short-lived modern water park that was eventually abandoned after falling into bankruptcy.
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@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

What is your favourite Water Park growing up? Follow me on Twitter and Instagram for sneak peaks of upcoming episodes twitter.com/expthemepark & instagram.com/expeditionthemepark

@adan26damianable 3 года назад

My Favorite Water Park is Knott's Soak City Because it has amazing water Slides

@alexgeorge501 3 года назад

my favorites are: Splash Works at Canada's Wonderland, Hurricane Harbor at Darien Lake, Waves indoor at Americana resort Niagara falls & Fallsview indoor (also in Niagara Falls)

@ASTER-IX 3 года назад

The duplo valley waterpark. it was so cool!

@JoseM10301 3 года назад

My old local park (now closed, and very dangerous in it's day) Action Park

@dwitefry4157 3 года назад

@@JoseM10301 Meh, I live in Essex, the closest thing to a water park was flooding.

@melasn9836 3 года назад

"Some even called it the Action Park of the west." You have my attention...

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Good 🤣

@markingatlightspeed 3 года назад

It's a very good description, too. Their water slides being built into the landscape is very similar to a lot of AP's slides. That and, yanno, the absolute batshit design of them lol

@SirBlackReeds 3 года назад

Someone get Johnny Knoxville on this crap.

@rzum81 3 года назад

Thanks for bringing Action Park up. I was trying to think of the place I compared this to.

@ronniea.4830 3 года назад

Not a compliment to be compared for a disastrous park

@tombuck 3 года назад

The dude spinning around on the standing slide before doing a flip into the water is an absolute champ.

@thelovelymisshill 3 года назад

Cool. As. Fuck. 😎

@robertzacharias6815 3 года назад

Flippy spinny on a standup slide was epic

@mikemeyer4800 3 года назад

Im sure he scored massive tail from the ladies for that sweet manuever.

@mattberg6816 3 года назад

@@mikemeyer4800 absolutely

@dennislockhart7290 3 года назад

It was the owners son, I'd say he had a lot of practice...lol

@slurpwis 3 месяца назад

that employee winning a lawsuit after willingly going down a slide after closing is INSANE

@non-human3072 29 дней назад

Ridiculous isn't it...

@scottjones1736 2 года назад

I grew up in Barstow and spent a many Summer in the 70s and 80s out at Lake Dolores, it was a blast! Over the years I have tried to explain the dynamics of what the Lake had to offer but I could never do it justice, Until Now!! Thank you to the people that put this video together, it brought back lots of fond memories!

@nunyabizness6662 Год назад

Hell yeah we used to go there as kids in the 70s and 80s too. What a trip down memory lane.

@CSDonohue11 Год назад

I always wondered what that park was and what happened with it It’s been abandoned as long as I can remember, which is late 80’s that I can actually 1st remember seeing it as We drove by from Vegas to DisneyLand.

@zacr3dd205 11 месяцев назад

Tá junto meu tio

@troy3456789 9 месяцев назад

Unfortunately, it could not survive a lawyer and an unethical jury.

@sarrahhaynes8935 2 месяца назад

My parents grew up in barstow (dad Newberry mainly) and I lived there until 9!

@PeteTheWargamer 3 года назад

I don't know what amazes me more. The fact that the design of that stand up slide was approved. Or that reporter deciding to ride it again after nearly giving himself concussion the first time around.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Haha can't knock it for trying

@Erebogenic 3 года назад

most likely some nose candy was involved.

@TwistedMexi 3 года назад

@@ExpeditionThemePark to kill people? It was a really good try, I'll give it that.

@ericatucker2683 3 года назад

It was never "approved" they just built it.

@bb5242 3 года назад

You didn't see all the chicks in bikinis just off camera. Those dudes sticking the back flips were getting sweet tail.

@jimoran5265 3 года назад

The moment I heard "water slide - stand up style" I knew this was going to end badly.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Hahah right

@Awesomesufff 3 года назад

Why would anyone think that that was a good idea

@MrKemoSpear 3 года назад

@@Awesomesufff Because, back then we really didn't give a shit. We went there knowing the risks & loved every minute of it. There were spots at the park where you could sit and watch the chaos of the stand up slide & the tram (if you didn't let go before you hit the tire, you would get flung off the thing when you hit it). My friends and myself would kick back drinking beer giving scores (1-10) on the crashes. Aaahhhhhhhhhhh. good times lol

@basti0007 3 года назад

Today, Swiss Manufacturer Klarer actually sells his stand-up water slides very prominently all over the world. But they're much safer (narrower) now then back then, of course. :-)

@brooklynmoede9480 3 года назад

I was going to say pretty sure there are still stand up slides.

@56KillerB Год назад

I was a 29 year-old telecom R&D engineer in 1985, and we needed to test our equipment cabinet in an extremely hot environment. I (the lead dude), a mechanical engineer, and a field service tech took our equipment to Lake Delores, and camped there for a week. All of the recording test equipment was pretty automatic, so all we had to do was set up the gear and monitor it every couple of hours. I had to call back to the office in Anaheim every *morning*, to check in, as I was incapable of technical coherence by the afternoon. A parade of strangers came to our campfire each night, to see what we were up to, as we didn't seem to fit the usual clientele behavior and demographic. An hour or so around our fire cured them of that concern. We got our needed data, and the equipment survived the harsh desert, but I was probably ready for rehab by the end of our adventure. I'll always remember that time very fondly.

@TroubledTribble420 Год назад

If anyone was curious about the fare of this water park still, as of 2021 it was listed for sale again

@caseysmith544 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the updated info on the park. I think just moving this to an RV park/camping park would make the most money given the cost for everything now being Super Jacked right now.

@Proxinem 3 года назад

I always feel sad when looking at old abandoned theme/water parks. Seeing footage of them before (in adverts, home movies etc) and seeing them as they are now - empty and overgrown - makes me think about all the good times people had there. All the childhood memories and happiness associated with a small plot of land, lost to time. Six Flags New Orleans is a good example of this - lots of footage coming out of that old park from urban explorers.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

I agree

@markingatlightspeed 3 года назад

I live like three minutes from an old trolley park that's had a lot of troubles and closed multiple times over the years, Bushkill Park, and though they're currently working on restoring it, a lot of it is still very messed up, and it breaks the heart to drive past. Especially knowing they had one of the few remaining Pretzel dark rides before it was destroyed by flood in '06. It's home to the oldest walk-through funhouse in the US, too, so knowing there's SO MUCH history there (including my own childhood) makes it all the more painful to see the wreckage they haven't gotten to yet.

@Knight-of-Sarcasm 3 года назад

I feel that way about our local parks that closed: Meyer's Lake, Summit Lake, and Geauga Lake/Sea World. Seeing the drone shots and having Josh visit the latter once and wander around Sea World made me so sad.

@jessiethomas3391 3 года назад

I've driven by the old park in new Orleans and it's really interesting to see

@imnotscary-jisoo4966 3 года назад

Well for a six flags update they finally found 3 different people who is willing to buy it (one being Drew Brees) and have plans to reopen it sometime in the future

@SeanFlaharty 3 года назад

So THAT's what that place was? I have driven from L.A. to Vegas dozens of times since 1995. I have seen that place quite a few times but never pulled over to really check it out. Thanks for the informative video. You are the best!

@dougkay3666 3 года назад

I have done the same. I thought it was a paintball park. Lol.. Now I want to explore it!

@epochseven4197 3 года назад

@@dougkay3666 Lol I thought it was a skatepark with all the graffiti and (what appeared to be) skate bowls seen from a distance.

@laur4620 2 года назад

same! used to drive from Las Vegas to Anaheim a bunch growing up in the early 2000s, and i always wondered about that place every time we drove past over the years.

@REALPLANETXVIDEOZ 2 года назад

I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S AN OFF RAMP,,,,,,FYI

@kittenmatchvids6440 Год назад

same, I went to Vegas from Lancaster early 2020, saw this and thought 'there has to be a story behind this,' but forgot to look it up.

@rachellombardi5253 Год назад

This place is such an amazing spot to explore. I loved looking at all the crazy graffiti and just strolling around. If you do go there please don't destroy anything! I hope they preserve it as it's such a unique gem in the desert.

@Whatlander Год назад

I was just thinking that the new owners would have to be massive fools if they painted over all of those years' worth of graffiti.

@andrewwright. Год назад

@@Whatlander why? it looks gash

@abigails4088 Год назад

@@andrewwright. graffiti is always a mixed bag... living/working around a main East/West rail line you get to watch a lot of it just roll right in front of you so to speak... there is a lot of "garish" or gaudy or even just... CRUMMY... graffiti art out there, but I've seen a few pieces that look like they belong on someone's living room wall in a frame... my favorite is still a damned amazingly done BABA from Dragonball, sitting on her crystal ball staring at you...simple concept, but they clearly put so much effort into it, so much detail... wish I'd gotten a picture.

@thelockpickinglebowski633 Год назад

I'm interested in checking it out, but I have a few questions and I hope you can answer them. Are there any "no trespassing" signs posted? Is it fenced? Are there security guards? Are most areas accessible by bicycle? Is there broken glass? I would at least like to tour the location by air with my drone. Thank you.

@andrewwright. Год назад

@@abigails4088 absolutely, where I live someone did a portrait of a death music artist who came from this city...was amazing, so life-like was of Keith from the prodigy

@RyanTreks 2 года назад

The original "dangerous" park looks like so much fun. I notice most people were mid-teens and older. The danger added to the fun and creativity. You could ride the slide as you wanted rather than just sliding down.

@craigkuna7503 5 месяцев назад

We had action park in the east!

@DanknDerpyGamer 4 месяца назад

@@craigkuna7503 You never forget how insane those waves in the wave pool are!

@WiccanBear23 3 года назад

My family visited Lake Dolores at least 10 times in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Yes… it really was the “Action Park of the West”. But, that’s the way the 70’s were back then. It was the age of “Play At Your Own Risk” and “Resulting Activity could cause great bodily injury or death”.

@ShadowKing006 2 года назад

Sounds like fun

@fredgervinm.p.3315 2 года назад

Action Park was one, remember Palisades Park across from the West side?

@laikanbarth 2 года назад

Good times!!

@PhoenixLyon 2 года назад

Isn't it crazy the way we went from, "at your own risk", to "I'm sueing for damages!", and warning labels on everything? Kids today aren't as tough as they think they are!LOL ✌😸

@brianjones8432 2 года назад

Grew up in the same era, just on the east coast. But yeah, I genuinely think the kids of the 70's and 80's were the last generation to be raised that way.... It was all downhill after the bicycle helmet. :) The parents of the kids now would sue over a stubbed toe. Back then, unless it looked like you were going to bleed out or had a bone protruding from your body, you would likely just get a laugh and a hardy "walk it off ya pussy".

@Onoitsbroko 3 года назад

I've driven by this place SO MANY TIMES and had no idea what this was! Amazing work as usual. Love the quality content.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Thank you so much!

@MrLuckyAndrew 3 года назад

Makes you wanna pull over and check it out now huh? I'm already planning it

@BlueOvals24 3 года назад

@@MrLuckyAndrew Be careful out there, as mentioned in the video there are plans on resurrecting the park again, might even be fenced off by now. And even if it isn't, it is technically private property again so just watch yourself

@Jackcrypto101 3 года назад

@@MrLuckyAndrew don't pay attention, grab some beers and have some fun

@jangamaster8677 3 года назад

Go check it out sometime. There’s a hole in the fence around back opposite the main gate ;)

@sukamayoutube2323 Год назад

The employee who rode the slide when he shouldn't and got paralysed only has himself to blame. Can't believe he could sue for his own stupidity.

@skorpion7132 3 месяца назад

My thoughts exactly.

@arbel7655 Месяц назад

It's a shame he was terribly injured but ridiculous he won. He had to know better since it was shut down for the day. "Unclear" rules is such a "don't eat tide pods" bunch of bull.

@thehorrorist3471 8 месяцев назад

As a NJ native, it tickles me no end that Action Park has become a worldwide symbol of reckless amusement. This place had the right spirit!!!

@LakeNipissing 4 месяца назад

As an "Action Park" survivor, it surprised me to see the insanity of Lake Dolores was likely ten years earlier than what Gene Mulvihill brought to Vernon / Sussex county.

@kylewilliams7457 3 года назад

Man don't make me feel sad about a waterpark I never went to! Good episode.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Thank you!

@Austin.D 3 года назад

Lol i would have never known this place even existed if i didn't see this video

@sisco0304 Год назад

i drove by it twice love seen videos like this of the past

@Buc_Stops_Here 3 года назад

Most amazing to me - that one family ran the most successful park of all the owners. You could say they knew what they were doing. More likely, they were in the right place at the right time and got lucky with the highway being built right in their front yard - which allowed them to start the concept.

@tommurphy4307 2 года назад

by 'successful', you mean they were able to go the longest before they went belly up- right??

@geniewilliams1742 Год назад

@@tommurphy4307 they literally sold the place and retired??? How is that “belly up”?

@rossbryan6102 Год назад

I AM SURPRISED THAT THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES DID NOT PUT THE GRABS ON THE WATER RIGHTS IN THE 1920 ERA! I NEVER REALIZED THAT THERE WAS THAT MUCH WATER THERE TO BEGIN WITH. OCCASIONALLY DRIVING TRUCKS THROUGH THE AREA I SAW THE REMNANTS, BUT NEVER REALIZED HOW BIG TIME IT REALLY WAS!!

@5crassrocker Год назад

@@rossbryan6102 San Bernardino county that's why

@moniquemc4553 2 года назад

I was a toddler and my parents took us religiously to Lake Dolores. Nothing but a bunch of unsupervised kids and drunk adults. lol Oh and lots of bikers 🤷🏼‍♀️ I have tons of pictures. By far you have found the most footage I’ve seen out of any video covering it.

@cosmichef75 3 месяца назад

I want to see the pictures.

@carriebrettholtz7833 Месяц назад

You should make a slide show of your photos. I'm very curious to see them!

@anthonya995 Год назад

I was lucky enough to go here when I was between 12-15. This was in late 70's and early 80's. During a time when people knew what we got into, accepted any and all responsibilities of "our own" actions. We didn't and weren't sue happy like now. Me and my family would camp there for weekends with family friends. Was the best, we went on every slide, the trapeze, and zip line. Sooooo cool. What was the worst part about it. Climbing up the dirt clod hill (was never and easy walk up. You would hurt yourself more walking up then going on all the slides. Well the stand up was a bit hard to hold onto due to well, hot sun, shiny metal rails, which equals hands getting burned, lol. Place was awesome!!!

@Mokujo 3 года назад

Man, I get feeling sorry for a guy who got paralyzed after one dumb mistake but legit how in the name of God is the park liable for that

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

yeah a real sad story

@bb5242 3 года назад

Well, it was a dumbass move. At age 18, my cousin got drunk and rode a dirtbike head first into a tree and was badly messed up for life. It is what it is.

@TheEpic22 3 года назад

If the park was being run with even moderate competence the employee would not have been able to do what he did.

@Mokujo 3 года назад

@@TheEpic22 He subverted everything else that was done. Do you want them to be constantly surveilling their employees?

@grahamie 3 года назад

I agree, the park should not be liable for an employee riding a waterslide before their shift, bypassing any security measures whilst doing so, and injuring himself. That was his own fault. Maybe the manger seeing him on the ground and not doing something immediately might be justification for a law suit? But still, his own irresponsibility resulted in his paralysis.

@dwitefry4157 3 года назад

This sort of video is why i'm subscribed to Expedition Theme Park and why every theme park fan should be: a near half an hour video on something that barely gets covered anywhere else that's genuinely fascinating.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Thank you so much

@kimturner282 3 года назад

Agreed. I loooooove stuff like this about the places/rides I have or even haven’t see origin stories. It takes a lot of effort and research and I appreciate it.

@shannong2174 3 года назад

Agreed!! I love Disney and Universal but I don't need to see yet another video on their attractions. I love that this channel covers those places you grew up with in the middle of no where or the places you wish you had been able to go to.

@lindalapierre2344 Год назад

I was 5 years old when my grandparents took me and some family friends to camp at lake Dolores in 1985. I still remember that place like it was yesterday. So much fun!! Hope this place makes a come back and I could take my boys and it’ll be a full circle since I went 😃☺️

@SubtractZero 3 месяца назад

You think the CA government would allow this place to come back? Not to mention the costs of maneuvering around the most overregulated economy in this country, they'd never be profitable. Can't even build a shed in your backyard without getting a handful of permits, yet alone a water park.

@chadcovey1626 8 дней назад

This is totally my new favorite channel, i highly enjoyed Defunctland Material, glad you popped up on my algorithm

@jaysenwhittaker9680 3 года назад

I grew up going to this place and knew the guy that paralyzed himself on the do-op super drop. He was foolish and blew all the lawsuit money within a few years. This park deserves more then the hand it was dealt. I remember it fondly. When I went to it though was when it was in its second stage.

@Jeremiah_Gottwald 3 года назад

"He was foolish and blew all the lawsuit money within a few years." Now that's the happy ending I wanted to hear. It disgusts me that his dumb ass was given a penny, but at least it didn't last.

@bagofnails6692 3 года назад

How does a guy who is paralysed blow all their money in a stupid fashion ? Hookers and cocaine I guess.

@jaysenwhittaker9680 3 года назад

@@bagofnails6692 he bought a million dollar RV as his first purchase, multiple exotic cars including a lambo, bought a bunch of his friends high end things like KTM dirt bikes, etc. didn’t invest in anyway so he lost most of it before he even realized it was gone.

@bagofnails6692 3 года назад

@@jaysenwhittaker9680 Silly person. Thanks for the reply.

@espritmike 3 года назад

@@jaysenwhittaker9680 It happens often enough that you can call it the rule and not an exception

@Kipper5776 3 года назад

Wow, Lake Dolores, what a surprise! I always thought growing up in the 70s as a teenager was one of the best decades to grow up in. I bought my first car (66 cuda) when I was 15 1/2, and not long after I was heading with my friends to Lake Dolores. It was always a great place to take your girlfriends or just go out with your buddies. The tram rides were awesome as well as the slides. Lots of fun, sure it was risky. Was it worth it? I fell off my roof at home, never got hurt at Lake Dolores, so there you go. 😊 Great video, thanks for covering this not forgotten hang out for some of us. 😉

@mamalupine7604 Год назад

👍

@christophersoberg2627 Год назад

Yea I showed my adult kids this video and told them how awesome it was in my early teens going there.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@audrealambert9583 Год назад

Great story 👍🤩🗽

@harrywinslow3946 Год назад

The question is, what did you do with the Barracuda? In showroom shape, it's worth about 200 grand today.

@BrokenFootRailfan 2 года назад

I originally discovered this abandoned waterpark as a rockhound out in the Barstow area, and drove by it multiple times before I was able to look it up. I think it was 2010 when we went out and actually shot pictures in the early evening in January, which just made the whole place even more creepy. It's what started my obsession with abandoned places. I love learning more about the history of it!

@jessmc6243 Год назад

I really din't expect my local waterpark to come up in this and had no idea the Colossal Canyon at Cultus Lake Waterpark was originally from Rockahoula. So interesting, it's one of my favourite slides.

@franklinstephen3268 Год назад

Hello how’re you doing?

@chip7090 Год назад

same here! it was so unexpected.

@SuperNuclearUnicorn 3 года назад

Honestly, I'm just glad the Byers got out while they could and made their money. Good on them!

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

glad he got to enjoy a few years of retirement

@chadbusch8541 3 года назад

American dream achieved!

@Soonjai 3 года назад

The incredible ways we always come back to being supid in Primm.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Heheh yesss

@CheesyNoodlez 3 года назад

“supid” hahaha

@Joey-rs7uq 3 года назад

Im stupid cause I always climb the top of the rollercoaster expecting something, but never actually finding anything and have to climb back down.

@The_DC_Kid 3 года назад

Primm? I was there earlier today. Here's a warning: don't go into The Bison Steve without Eddy.

@tomlink5784 2 года назад

A man of culture. Indeed. But honestly, do people in primm really climb the rollercoaster?

@frankfitz3421 Год назад

Thanks for that memory, they also had a motocross track there. I went to high school in barstow and frequently went to lake Delores in 1973. What a great memory

@DeanGilberryCrunch 2 года назад

As a Victorville native I’m glad to see this get some attention. My family always called it “Spooky Water Park”. It is very much a landmark to us

@aprils376 Год назад

I lived in Victorville

@DeanGilberryCrunch Год назад

@@aprils376 I’m so sorry to hear that

@nintandrew13 3 года назад

Would love to see a follow-up video in 3-5 years if the new plans ever get started, though it sounds more resort-y than theme park Great video!

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Hopefully third time is the charm for this park

@YurTypicalVegasMom702 3 года назад

Being a Las Vegas native, I’ve watched this place come and go multiple times throughout my life. It’s always been a sort of mile marker between CA and NV. We would always look for it when driving to Disneyland or southern CA in general. It would we awesome if it opened again.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

I hope so!

@goldenstate5 3 года назад

Also a Las Vegas native here, I still have never known another person whoever visited it, but EVERYBODY knew about it.

@smirage22 3 года назад

Same, always seen it but never stopped

@samlatlippe4597 3 года назад

Yeah the water park and the Roy Rogers Museum, dad would threaten to take us to if we were bickering too much

@dreamingnihilist653 3 года назад

Funny, I’m a vegas native as well, and I don’t remember this park. I do remember being spun out in the early 90s as a kid, counting down the hours and minutes till we got to Disneyland. Reading Stephen King books and playing my game boy. Good Memories, wouldn’t trade them for all the modern media in the world. Actually, i was looking for info on Wet N Wild on the strip, that was a fun death trap, Lead me to this video, Impressed.

@adventurekitty1016 Год назад

I gasped when I heard Cultus Lake Waterpark get mentioned. I go there all the time. It’s interesting to hear that my favourite slide there is the remains of this old waterpark.

@lordkreigs1978 Год назад

I've driven by it many many times and wondered the history. Great job in the story.

@FWDlol 3 года назад

I'd seen this place on my way to Vegas for several years before I finally got tired of wondering what it was and headed out to see it in person. My girlfriend and I rode our motorcycles from Rosamond, CA to check it out and you could still feel the fun that used to happen there. I hope the next version lasts longer than all of the previous attempts but it seems like that place is just doomed.

@shaneicereed3120 Год назад

Me too

@CSDonohue11 Год назад

👍

@toyamwarr 3 года назад

That water park lawsuit over workmen’s comp has been used several times at several of my past jobs for why it’s important to clock in before going to work and to never continue working after clocking out.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

interesting!

@andrewrobertson3894 2 года назад

Very true and a great observation.

@AbandonedMines11 2 года назад

Reopening in 2022? I wouldn’t bet on it. Great video! Really enjoyed the thorough reporting and classic footage.

@rustyshackleford6730 2 года назад

The work is supposed to begin in 2022 to be opened in 2023

@CodysGarage Год назад

@@rustyshackleford6730 did the work start?

@cucaelhombre Год назад

I’m passing by there this week on a trip to Vegas. Might even go explore if I get the chance. I’ll let you know when I pass by.

@UlshaRS Год назад

Down to the pandemic? Anyone wanna tell them about the mega drought and PR nightmare such a wasteful excess will spark?

@dianarodriguez1900 Год назад

Reopening? Hopefully that will never happen! Do people forget that we are in a MAJOR DROUGHT or they just don’t care?! If they can still get water for every day usage then why worry about the rest of us? People only care about themselves!! Stupid people!

@barbarakendrick652 Год назад

Wow I had forgotten about Lake Delores. My grandma and grandpa took me there when I was about 8 to 10. Love the reporting Sam. Thank you for bringing back that great memory.

@TheXerosyn 3 года назад

I went here a few times as a kid, and to this day that stand up slide haunts me. First time I went down didn't know anything on it. Well after the first slide and a few layers of skin burned off my hands I learned the trick of using flip flops on hands to slide it. After that is was a blast. Glad I can say I enjoyed the original park.

@joep4235 3 года назад

this was a fantastic history lesson !!! I visited the park in each of its phases... with my parents in the 70's on a cross country vacation, Rock a Hoola with a bunch of my friends on a trip to Calico Ghost Town in the early 2000's, and Discovery a couple years later on a trip to Vegas. Never rode a single slide... we just watched the fun and had some burgers. The remnants are still there ( we saw them in early March on another trip to Vegas) and it always makes me smile to see them ... thanks so much for the vid!

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

That's amazing

@BlueOvals24 3 года назад

You planning on going again when/if the newest phase is done?

@tommurphy4307 2 года назад

in the 70's?? your folks must have been family- dolores was private property back then.

@fireisfire95 Год назад

Danger aside, this place looked like it was fun as hell.

@jerrysullivan8424 Год назад

It was a fun place back in 1977 or 1978 when I was there. Thank you for bringing back good memories.

@JasonRasmussen 3 года назад

True story. I worked for a major computer company in Victorville in the 90's and the owner of this waterpark tried to buy a lot of computers from us on credit. We had a feeling this would not pan out well so we turned him down. Good decision.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Interesting!

@dmannevada5981 3 года назад

Curious what that computer company was? Lived in A.V. from 82-2001

@robertsmith9397 3 года назад

"I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is skateboard waterpark." I knew I've seen that place somewhere.

@dimanfpv3247 3 года назад

It's also a big destination for the fpv drone community. I hope to visit it one day

@jockfl24 Год назад

Who would have thought about building a waterpark in the middle of no where.....AWESOME!!!!

@BitterDemo 10 месяцев назад

As a Kansas Trucker hauling meat to the Las Angeles , Ca. Basin I stopped several times at the old Water Park and it was always a Thrill to take that standing slide. It was very refreshing as well as Therapeutic to me because as a much younger kid I and two buddies from St. Joseph, Missouri would Hitchhike to Huntington Beach California and loved Body surfing there.

@sct913 3 года назад

Even before you said it, my immediate thought on seeing the initial clip was "Action Park of the West."

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Haha right?!

@toyamwarr 3 года назад

I thought the same thing.

@jgatzby4263 3 года назад

Just missing a version of the infamous teeth collecting, looping Action Park water slide

@dindog22 3 года назад

same. although it seems Action Park was a little worse

@sct913 3 года назад

@@dindog22 Yes, Action Park was worse.

@DisneyMarkUK 3 года назад

Those stand up slides have been popping up at water parks recently, they don’t seem as fast and dangerous as these ones mind. Thanks for another amazing video Sam, I’ve never heard of this place before. It still doesn’t look as scary as River Country was, that place was truly terrifying.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Haha thanks Mark!

@davidginn55 Год назад

I went to this water park as a kid. I forgot all about it. Feels like it was a dream.

@wavestherules558 Год назад

Cheers!! I didn't need to know this, but it was interesting enough to keep me here till the end.

@alondrad19 3 года назад

I literally pass that old abandoned water park multiple times a year and always wondered what happened. Thanks for the answers. I feel full filled. Say hi to Jackie for me! 😊👋🏽

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Thanks for taking the time to watch 👋

@richard_gonzalez 3 года назад

I think that the lawsuit that was placed by the employee against the Waterpark was totally BS. If what was said is true, then the employee definitely knew that what he was doing was wrong and he was liable for what happened to him. Sad to see that the Waterpark had to take the fall for his stupidity and pay for it.

@richard_gonzalez 3 года назад

@@Mrwaffleandmilk because it wasn't their fault that a dumbass employee broke the rules and lied in court to make some money for something he did

@cardinaloflannagancr8929 3 года назад

@@Mrwaffleandmilk The business is owned and staffed by actual people not a sentient faceless nameless object. Saying oh it's just a business or a company. That's just something people tell themselves to rationalize away guilt they should be feeling.

@tlrogers6083 3 года назад

In California, the plaintiff’s always win

@BlueOvals24 3 года назад

@@Mrwaffleandmilk What @Cactus Rider said, and to add to it, it was a small business too, not a mega corporation like Disney that wouldn't even notice they had a lawsuit. If small business is running things right, which it sounds like this one was, they shouldn't get slapped with dumb lawsuits like this. It's like getting into a car accident because you weren't paying attention and then suing the car manufacturer. That's not how it works, you don't get financial gain from self-inflicted injury or death.

@satanofficial3902 3 года назад

It's *SEXIST!!!* to use the term "bullsh*t" when she cows go poop, too. And, it's also *SPECIESIST!!!* because non-bovine animals also expel digestion remnants through their anal orifice. In the future, instead of saying "bullsh*t", everyone should please say "Non-gender-specific non-species-specific animal excrement". And instead of using "BS", please use "NSNSAE". Thank you for your cooperation.

@tahoe2jt Год назад

I went there many times as a young adult. The stand up slide was the best thing ever!!

@franklinstephen3268 Год назад

Hello 👋 how’re you doing?

@ashley_engle Год назад

How fantastic this place must have been in it's first year 💕 so free feeling and open I imagine

@JamesonThomas24 3 года назад

I am so glad you keep finding ways to include the desperado clip. Is it really a Las Vegas video without it?

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

It is not!

@AwkwardKidAdventures 2 года назад

Is that the "that was really stupid" clip? I'm not a movie buff, and I've only seen 2 videos from this channel so far, but it was in both lol

@CybermanBill 3 года назад

Well done!!! I loved this park. We used to go summers of 82 and 83!!! The standup slide is what drew me to the park. I was 12 when we first started going! I remember being sick from Smiley elementary school in Redlands and seeing the commercial with the trapeze and standing slide and I knew I had to go!! Thank you dad (Rip) for being so cool and always telling me to make lasting memories no matter what!! So, on those days that I went only with you and not friends, they were some of my best childhood memories. Doing anything with you always made for good times and lasting memories! Its been a little over a year since your gone and I just thank you for always being there when I needed you and making me who I am! Memories and the world are just not the same without you!! Thanks again for making this! It really got me kind of emotional. I'm sorry!! Hope it didn't bother you! Thank u again!

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Doesn't bother me at all and made me feel the same as it was my parents that installed my love of theme parks and places like this in me. Thank you for watching. RIP to your Dad. Sounds like a great man.

@orthopraxis235 Год назад

Go Redlands. Now get after that nasty University of Redlands for closing it's tennis courts to the public, the community and the kids. We don't need more CLOSED things!

@starlynn7971 2 года назад

I love these type of videos! A nice slice of Nostalgia

@geraldinebartlett8195 Год назад

This was fascinating. Very good. Thanks 😊

@nope2303 3 года назад

This is my childhood water park, me & 2 cousins who used to go when we were kids went to visit the abandoned site recently (we must’ve gone at similar times!) and the wave of nostalgia was unlike anything I’ve felt before. I felt like a ghost floating through my own vivid memories. I have an affinity and fascination for abandoned places, but this was my first time exploring one that I’d been to before it was closed & abandoned. Most of the people that were there when we were walking around were too young to have ever been at the park when it was still open- I myself was only 5 when it closed in 2001. 20 years later, still so much energy attached to the place. Great video, I liked the promo vids and commercials, hadn’t seen Lake Dolores the way I remember it in a long time.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

The old promo videos and commercials are so nostalgic. Thanks for watching.

@MRLouieRS 3 года назад

Countless scenarios, good and bad have played in my head (as well as whoever else is in the car) as to what happened to this spooky water park in the middle of nowhere. Thank you Expedition Theme Park for putting to rest the ghosts in my head!

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Thank you for watching!

@bb5242 3 года назад

I can't imagine camping there in the desert heat. How quickly does it cool off at night?

@BlueOvals24 3 года назад

@@bb5242 It doesn't lol At least not during the summer, spring and fall are a bit better, you could see a 10-20 degree drop in the late evenings

@randomhero6365 2 года назад

My family and I got to visit Rock A Hoola during it's last week of operation. I was very young at the time but I do remember walking around with my mom while my dad did some slides. We didn't stay long as all the food places were shut down and we ended up leaving after too long.

@accordingtotaylor 2 года назад

I spent severallll birthdays here as a kid in the 90s, and never understood its history until recently. Still live in the high desert and honestly had no idea they were trying to resurrect it! Considering that just the high desert population has grown so much over the years, I feel as if that alone will help the come back immensely. I guess time will tell! Thank you for the incredibly informative video!

@CivilianSatellite 3 года назад

"Located halfway between Las Vegas and LA-" Wait for it... " 2:36 " There it is!

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

🤣

@Kazick228 3 года назад

Every time Primm comes up I cant agree enough with how bad that place is/was. Note, I used to work at Primm.

@helmutkok7833 3 года назад

Does it almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter?

@KichiUki 3 года назад

What is that clip from?

@thetravelingsteampunkkitty534 3 года назад

Every time I passed there going to Vegas I said who be crazy enough to put a water park in the middle of desert...

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

haha someone was!

@babymeow13 2 года назад

I love this channel, thank you!! ❤️

@nathanhannah9664 Год назад

How I loved the zip line!! Such a fun place to go to.

@Ramonatho 3 года назад

I like the juxtaposition of an acting magician faking something poorly, compared to the real reporter going back up the hill just to hurt himself more.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

right?!

@ronscurti1269 3 года назад

THIS IS THE BEST AMUSEMENT PARK/ ROLLERCOASTER CHANNEL OUT THERE.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Thank you so much

@learntotakeajoke3100 Год назад

So much details, thank you!

@anaclaudiabecker6636 2 года назад

Great video. And I am enjoying to read all these stories about this park here. I am from Brazil. I was born in 1972. Reading this stories make me go back to my childhood. Great time. Different country but the same feeling of the 70s, 80s. Wonderful time. 🤗

@pickles3128 3 года назад

It's funny and sad that Bob Byers couldn't get any real _buyers_ for his park, amirite? (Sorry, I'll go home now.)

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

I did think that when writing it ,😉

@V0YAG3R 3 года назад

@AwkwardKidAdventures 2 года назад

I'm proud to be the 80th like on this comment. :P

@SemiShweet 3 года назад

Wow, that really sucks for the guy that created Rocka Hoola, I hope he got something better.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Right?!

@chatteyj 3 года назад

I think its never a good idea to expand and spend so much money on a development so quickly its such a risk and debt repayments can kill you, its better to start small providing something good and expand slowly.

@reyzapata9375 Год назад

I remember my dad & myself would stop at lake Delores so we could rest and have fun on our way to Colorado Springs. It was such a beautiful place to enjoy. I was able 7yrs old back in 1968. To day it’s a ghost town with only the fun memories I had as a child. R.I.P. Mrs Dolores. Ps, Lake Dolores will always be the first water park ever built in the world.☹️🌹🙏🏽👍

@Dilligff 2 года назад

I got to visit there as a kid in the 80s, back when it was mostly the mud ponds and a few slides. I was one of those 'lucky' ones that ended up in the dirt on the other side of the lake. Wish I'd gotten the chance to see the Rock-A-Hoola version before it closed.

@andyb9720 3 года назад

I remember seeing the updated park as we drove by to Vegas as a kid. Never stopped. It was such a wtf moment seeing it truly in the middle of nowhere it stuck with me all these years. Thanks for doing the history of the place

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Thanks for watching, hopefully in the next few years it will come back to life.

@MisterAbove 3 года назад

I've driven by this place so many times and wondered what it used to be. Thanks for spending the time to put this together, so cool!

@4460cows Год назад

I had cousins who lived in Barstow, CA. One summer while at band camp. No they took me out to Lake Dolores. Crazy fun day. Later that night we went hunting trip for rattle snakes got them in a gunny sack just lay there on the floor boards of the back seat of the desert rat VW bug bettle. Desert days and nights with my cousins was always fun memories. Crazy good memories.

@wordup1944 Год назад

Thank you , this was lovely to watch , from England.

@Shannondionleelee 3 года назад

I can’t believe I’m getting weepy and sentimental about a water park in a country I’ve never even been to!

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

my job is complete ha!

@melissablakeman2659 3 года назад

Don't you just love shit like this? I always get all choked up about abandoned water and amusement parks. I'm weird though 😂

@fifthrider 3 года назад

I'm grateful for a childhood in a 1970's California. Although Lake Dolores was infamous for those steel slides, most of the other waterslide parks that existed used concrete/gunite slides. You had to use a mat to slide and if you got separated from it, you just slid down on your chest without it, followed by a trickle of red. It truly wasn't a day at a waterslide park if you didn't need stitches. I remember people in the Huish family's La Mesa park ( Family Fun Center ) actually launching out of the concrete slides and over the trestle into the bushes below. All that aside, yes, it really was the Action Park of the west. Helicopter parents today wouldn't have the grit to tell their kid "Quit crying. Get back up there and try it again."

@bb5242 3 года назад

I don't notice any parents in any of the clips. That place was teen city. I wonder how many unplanned pregnancies were initiated there?

@rondajones7526 3 года назад

That's funny and sad, 70s kids tell stories of getting hurt like badges of honor or war stories. Things were more relaxed and if you got hurt you sucked it up and moved on. Not a bad skill to have really

@BlueOvals24 3 года назад

@@rondajones7526 Yeah, not a bad skill. Unless you get so jacked up, paralyzed, lose a limb or some other life changing injury that you can't even live life the way you were hoping to. Don't get me wrong, some of these 70's parks look real thrilling, but some of them can easily ruin the rest of you're life.

@MrFace-pr1zp 3 года назад

I miss the good old days where there were no seatbelts. Really fun to imagine all those people that got to fly out windshields, I bet it was so fun.

@BlueOvals24 3 года назад

@@MrFace-pr1zp Too bad you survived those days.

@jeffharden2797 Год назад

I used to see ads for this place when I was 10-11. That stand up slide looked so fun.

@josephemerian9545 Год назад

Amazing video thank you for your time. I'm in Fresno that place is close. Very cool

@rich_edwards79 3 года назад

Looks as though the lake finally dried up, probably due to the CA droughts. They're going to have a tough time running a water park with no water... I suspect this place is never going to reopen.

@chatteyj 3 года назад

The video mentioned there is a natural spring there

@GreebleClown 3 года назад

@@chatteyj Natural springs still need to get their water from somewhere and can dry up.

@DouglasLippi 3 года назад

Droughts have come and gone in California since forever.

@dmannevada5981 3 года назад

There is a massive amount of water under the Mojave desert. Also, the droughts are largely Agricultural & Hydrological, not meteorological...for the most part.

@dimanfpv3247 3 года назад

California stole a lot of the water from these areas to supply the shore cities "LA San, Francisco" there will probably never have enough water to reopen

@mattr8090 3 года назад

This by far has been my favorite Expedition Extinct episode! Good Job guys!

@maggie246 2 года назад

I always drive past this location and have always wondered what it was! Thanks for the video!

@petercermak4095 2 года назад

I just love all the original footage. Thanks for sharing! Let's hope that the 4th time is the Charm!

@djbronzed 3 года назад

Have stopped at this abandoned park several times; so wish it were still open. The location is literally in the middle of nothing within the desert! This is the most informative coverage I’ve seen on this park; nicely done!

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Thank you!

@imdbtruth 3 года назад

So sad to hear about the pool technician getting paralyzed... That's such a high price to pay for one bad decision.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Yeah a sad one for sure

@ocfos88 3 года назад

@@ExpeditionThemePark The successful attempt at scamming the park in a lawsuit sucks though; Like, he absolutely fucked up, but took zero responsibility for his own mistake. That's just scummy, even if he was paralyzed like that. I'm surprised the third guy who turned the power on for it wasn't reprimanded in any way.

@johnnywang206 3 года назад

@@ocfos88 it’s because of people like him that we can’t have nice things.

@Imowennn 3 года назад

@@ocfos88 thats americas sue culture in a nutshell though

@Campbrightmoon 2 года назад

So excited to hear about the new company taking over with full intentions to redo the whole area starting next year, I'll have to keep an eye out for updates!

@johnnyvo6833 3 года назад

ahhhh thank you so much for making this! I've driven by this every time on my trip to Vegas for the last 30+ years and I've always wondered about it. I love your work!

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Thank you so much for watching!

@mikeminard4115 3 года назад

I remember the commercials growing up in Southern California as a kid; by the time I was old enough to to go to Vegas in the early 90s, it was already closed.

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Ah that's a shame!!

@_JellyDonut_ 3 года назад

Same here, I never went but my friends and I were obsessed with it just because of the commercials. Wasn't there a catchy jingle in the late 80's version of the commercial? I can't find it anywhere

@bobcunningham9899 18 дней назад

Yes, there was a very catchy jingle. I still remember it. It was constantly aired during commercial breaks in the 70s.@@_JellyDonut_

@onesabez 2 года назад

Amazing past footage and history on this place.

@nancyjones6780 Год назад

Haha I love how right when that lifeguard was talking about making sure everyone was out of the way of the water slide a guy comes flying down and literally almost landed on a swimmer in the water!!I 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@meghanteress 3 года назад

i explored this park on my trip back from vegas last time! it’s so cool seeing all the art and abandoned structures. i wish i could’ve experienced it in its heyday. or i wish it was still open! thanks for doing this video

@princesskristan 3 года назад

I've looked into this place and it's pretty cool looking in its abandoned state

@ExpeditionThemePark 3 года назад

Yep!

@jazminmascorro584 3 года назад

It used to be way cooler when they still had the slides. I would say it has been 10+ years since they took them down.

@shaynak745 3 года назад

@@jazminmascorro584 I wonder if anyone has footage of it being abandoned before the slides were removed?

@jazminmascorro584 3 года назад

@@shaynak745 There is a bunch if you look. Rob Dyrdeck skated the location when it was abandoned before they took the slides out and it was on MTV.

@shaynak745 3 года назад

@@jazminmascorro584 thank you! I’ll have to look more into it.

@starport5551 2 года назад

Hey I drove by this a couple days ago on my way to Six Flags Magic Mountain! It momentarily caught my eye and now I understand what once stood there. I’m excited to see the next chapter!