“There’s nothing in the world like Action Park!” Well, they’re not wrong...

I remember begging my parents to take me to Action Park, but they never would do it. In hindsight, maybe they did love me.

There's nothing in the world like Accident Park!

"under water river" ok then.

This place was like no other. I went there once in the early 90's and nearly drowned in the wave pool. A friend of mine was hurt riding the alpine slide as were many others. My father had to be taken out in an ambulance after landing wrong cliff diving, which was his fault, but still the reputation of this place was well earned. After saying all that, I did have fun there.

Natural Selection Park.

Even the parks i create on rollercoaster tycoon 3 are safer than this.

5:07 i love how even the commercial shows the vehicle sailing through the air and skidding into the wrong lane

Things I remember about Action Park: It was in the middle of nowhere & hard to find. Dam water was COLD!! Ambulances. Ambulances Everywhere! Fun Fun Fun!! Edit: More things I remember about Action Park!!: Getting on the Ski Lift to ride The Alpine Slide. The Tank Ride with the pneumatic tennis ball cannons! The inner-tube bumper boats with the outboard motors! I did not survive Action Park just to be taken out by no dam Covid-19 Virus!

5:05 JESUS THAT LOOKS DANGEROUS

That evil-voiced second announcer is perfect for this death trap lol.

"Where you and the rides become one." Well if you count rocks as part of the ride.

I loved this place! My brother and I went in 1978 and 1979, before some of the later attractions. My favorite memory of the park was my brother on the big water slide. It wasn’t just one slide, but had lanes next to each other so you could race each other down the hill, with a little ridge between the lanes that did NOT hold people in their designated areas. My brother was ahead of me by about 5 feet one time, and somehow halfway crossed into my lane, and then didn’t go in either direction. He stayed in the middle, riding the berm between the lanes, and his crotch was taking the brunt of the bumps. His bathing suit got pushed to one side and I could (Against my will) see EVERYTHING that was happening to him as he raced down the hill with what he says felt like a saw slicing between his legs. At the bottom, he pulled his pants up and spent the next 2 hours telling me how … how do I put this … how his twins were no longer conjoined. How one ended the race in each lane. LOL. True story.

Action Park: the first amusement park that would make a great horror movie villain...where else would the park itself want the guests dead

5:04 I AM SPEECHLESS.

Surviving this park was like a rite of passage!

if only they had go pros for the cannonball loop at the time...

My right ear enjoyed this!

it was a right of passage for us. If u were all banged up on Monday or Tuesday, your friends were like," hey how was action park?".

Oh yes, tons of memories. Cannonball loop was one ride you didn't do more than once. You were banged up and dazed after you came out. You couldn't see a thing inside, and normally fell in complete darkness from the top of the loop. Can't believe it was ever open, or that more didn't get hurt! And OH, all the scraped up people from the cement chutes! LOL EVERYBODY got scraped up. Arms, legs, sides and even faces! Never did the alpine chute thing, because of all the people walking around with their hides shaved off! LOL

No helmets? Check. No safety codes? Right. BBQ Chicken? Hell yeah! Sign me up!

I just love seeing 70s and 80s videos, its just something about them is just so charming to me

the ride's sure were crazy and dangerous .. every time i ever went there was someone being taking out on a stretcher to a ambulance i went there a lot

The best is the guy at 6:56"IIIIIIII looooooooooovvvvvvvve ittttt"

Some of the best memories of my life are here. I honestly think living through exhilarating moments with legitimate concerns of impending death at a very young age was good for my development.

3:13 is priceless, brings back so many memories. Not necessarily of the theme park but of early hip hop culture.

Absolutely amazing to see the Canonball Loop in action. Its use was almost mythological. Upon entry, it was always closed when I visited. SO AWESOME. THANK YOU!!!

I crushed my sternum at action park in 1981. It made me the man I am today.

The loop looks more like a sewer drainage pipe. lol

5:07 God damn. Wouldn't get away with shit like this now

Love that waterslide between 4:49 and 5:10. Those kids must have been getting up to six feet of air after hitting the bump!

Having heard so much about this park, it's great to finally see footage. Can't believe the insanity of these downhill water rides - the speed is crazy. "Anyone want to start? OK, everyone go at once! GO! No, more people!"

As a former employee, I have a ton of great memories. They used to bribe us into testing the Cannonball after it had been shut down and patched with ActionBucks for the food court. The food wasn't great, but I'd always volunteer. I got more injuries on the Alpine Slide, where I worked, because we shaved down the friction pads on the special "employee" sleds to go faster. I remember burning through more than one tee-shirt. Ahhh...It was good to be a teenager back then...

I went there in the 80's and it was a lot of fun. When I went the cannonball loop was already closed. I heard that someone lifted their head just before the loop starts and that was it - major head trauma and lights out forever. I remember a lot of people getting hurt on the Alpine cart ride, which is shown in here. I remember seeing someone walking away from it with the biggest bleeding scrape I've ever seen. You could really get a bad road type burn if you fell off.

watching this video brung me back to the 80s / 90s . back when things were more laid back and fun . being a kid in those times was the best times to grow up in . you could ride your bike across town and not get hit by a car . you could run up to some random persons house and drunk from their garden hose and not get shot or arrested . yeah those were the simple times that me and pepperidge farms remembers

Despite how dangerous it was, it looks extremely fun.

The one time I went there, in 1984, someone drowned in the wave pool. You can't make this shit up. It was insane.

So cool to see the tennis ball tanks and all the other stuff there. You can clearly see how fun and dangerous this place was. God I miss it and am glad I got to experience it in it's full danger mode.

Went there twice in Summer of 1979 and 1980 with a youth group. Our bus driver broke his neck on the Alpine slide and we had to wait hours for a new bus driver to be able to drive us back to NY. My elbows were bleeding from water slide runs and I still have the scars today. Childhood of the 70’s and 80’s was the best.

5:04 joyful music is being played as three people get launched into the air and almost end up in the hospital. I'm truly fascinated by this video

wow at the ride at 5:05 That is some serious air time for the kiddies!!

My uncle lost his entire shirtsleeve on the Alpine Slide here! And my grandma wasn't even mad- half the people in the park were in the same shape he was. It was the norm, which really tells you something about this place and its safety.

Total Drama: I am the deadliest thing imaginable Action Park: *hold my drunk teen employee*

That magic carpet ride knocked the wind out of me and cracked my ribs..SUMMER OF 85’ THE GREATEST SUMMER OF MY LIFE!!!SCREW GREAT ADVENTURE

6:57... ''I LOVE IT !!!!!'' (until wipeout 10 seconds later) No discrimination at Action Park. The Alpine Slide would rip any color of skin off.

'Where you and the rides become one.' Yeah, you'll leave your skin and blood on the concrete.

8:20 is insane! That water slide with the loop is 😱

8:31 There's the infamous hosing down before embarking on that Death Trap!

I loved this freakin place!!!!! I got hurt twice (bashed heads with another person on the river ride and somebody whacked their head of my jaw on the same ride later that summer). Best water park EVER!!!!

Now I know why my parents never took me here! LMAO

Class Action Park... what an incredible place! Fun rides. And staffed by employees who were underage, under-trained, and under-the-influence...

I'm actually getting chills. I remember going on these rides. And I have no idea how I survived.

4:37 - As the guy almost smashes his face open on the pier in the background, lol

I went there when I was 12 with my family . It was nuts . We’re lucky we survived lol

50% of the comments: I wish I could go there! 50% : Holy shit, *what?*

This place looks awesome!! I'd much rather be a kid playing with my friends here risking injury than the mental injuries of technology and social media of today!!

Demonstrations of the two Alpine Slide sled speeds: 0:06 - slow 0:07 - ''death awaits''

I only know it as MountainCreek because I was born in 1995 and I love the park. It's actually my favorite water park. Of course now it's taken it's old name back so it's Action Park once again. I understand the appeal that the old park had, but 6 people died there not to mention countless other injuries. Obviously I never saw it in it's "glory days", but I'm happy with what it is now. It's still crazier than most water parks and still retains that kind of no rules feel to an extent. The safety upgrades were needed and I don't think they killed the park.

I wonder how many people died filming this video.....

Going there in 1981 was one of my top 10 all time favorite days! It was AMAZING!!!

This place looks god damn incredible!! I can't even imagine the cost for liability insurance if this was around today. Just another reason why the 80's were the best years.

I am jealous of those 80's people. I would totally go there.

My favorite water park. Went every summer in the 90s and definitely had weed blown in my face waiting in line for the rope swing when I was 10 or 11. Memories!

Went there dozens of times and no one was hurt, at all. Miss that place.

People back then had BALLS

Oh my God... This park looked to be so fucking awesome... I regret not to have born in the early 80's, and not to have known before about this park. I watched several videos on KZfaq about Action Park, and it made on me a lot of joy and emotion. There were many injuries in this park ; but in the 80's / 90's, society were not so restrictive and paranoiac about laws and security. Action Park seemed to be a park in which people (kids/teenagers/adults, etc) could REALLY HAVE FUN and be FREE !!! Moreover, in my opinion, the risk is part of life, and there is not real fun without risk. I really regret that I will never know the pleasure to go to Action Park... Sorry for my orthographical faults, I'm from France. And I LOVE this part of "old good America" !!! Action Park is definitively the BEST park EVER made !

'There’s nothing in the world like action park! We put the fun in Funeral!'

Damn I wish I was alive in the 80s so I could experience this! Yeah it was dangerous but this is what America is all about! This woulda been the most fun waterpark ever!

You're not going to find Go Karts in every modern amusement park. Looks like it truly was fun, despite the safety hazards.

You just know that the footage at 5:43 had been cut short because the guy upfront on the Alpine Slide will be bumped big time by the guy behind him in 5, 4, 3, 2... Awww.

I went here in 1986 at age 14 and it was the best water park ever. Looking back on it now, we were crazy. Those cannon ball tubes were so cool to be shot out 10ft above ice cold water. The water slides were FAST. Tarzan rope swing was fun. A friend lost all the skin off his shoulder on the alpine slide. At age 14, you don't care about injuries.

8:31 - oh man. I really want to believe that he went in head first on his back and came out feet first on his stomach.

This was the best amusement park I've ever been to and maybe part of it was because it was raw and the danger potential was always there.

Damn near killed myself on that alpine slide a few times but it was a blast!

8:17 for those looking for cannonball loop footage 👍 And be sure to check out the movie based on this park- Action Point. They have a bunch of fun throwbacks like when they mimic the commercials "I love it here!"

KZfaq's copyright policies are bizarre... after close to two years of this video existing, they suddenly mute the Pink Floyd music near the end....

I would be willing to sign a waiver or whatever it takes, that place looks good!

“This is just like coming to broadway is wonderful” LMFAO I forgot how much things were exaggerated in the 70s & 80s.

Anyone here from HBO's "Class Action Park"?

just when im looking at the cannonball loop it gives me chills..

Loved Action Park! (Safety be damned!) We visited every year. The Cannonball Loop was already closed before we made it there, but I won't forget the original Cannoball (sans Loop). It was a near vertical drop and crazy. My dad went down it as the first ride of our day, came out with his bathing suit wedged so far up I don't think the term "wedgie" was any longer an adequate description, and spent the rest of the day having to use the bathroom every 10 minutes.

Cannonball Loop is at 8:20. This place looks like it was a lot of fun!

"These are the most amazing rides in the world. I love it here!" Honestly though people loved this park and had great times here. There really was nothing like it, in every sense of the phrase.

OMG that loop at the end! I have claustrophobia just looking at it! What if you didn't have the momentum to circle all the way around?! You'd end up trapped in the tube at the bottom. And then the next person might come crashing into you? Was there an escape hatch?! Too horrible to contemplate!

this place may have been dangerous as hell, but I would still pay money to time travel to go to this place, it looks super rad tbh

Crazy as hell is what this place was! Amazing how someone's kid didn't break their damn neck!

55 years old grew up in California . I never heard of this place before. Or don't remember hearing about it. At this time I was going to Marine World when it was in Redwood city back in the 70s . And Marriotts Great America ... currently 6 Flags Theme park . Good times ! 💯

OMG this video just remind me how old i am and how i miss the time when everything was not connect to internet

Where you and the rides become one...when you get impaled on a piece of rebar! LOL.

This place looked amazing I could care less about all the accidents they had here I would go and would ride the Cannonball loop for sure even thought it was a liability and people came out with bloody noses ect. I didn't realize there was so much to do there.

I love that the workers and crew were just drunk and stoned and geeked out while working lol that’s hilarious

Action park, more like class action park

Went there a few times in the 80's. The alpine slide was the bomb! Seem to remember they had a zip line and cliff diving, which was cool. I still live in NJ and heard it reopened, i'd check it out again.

this is the greatest video in internet history

Best place ever. Had some of the best times of my young life there.

I want to go back in time and have some fun at action park

5:41 I found pictures of my Uncle, Aunt, Mom, and Dad at Action Park from Summer of '82 recently, one of the pictures is my Uncle on the Alpine Slide RIGHT AT this point on the ride.

I'm sure the ride at 5:00 was cause of some of the injuries lol. the water rides at 2:45 were congested and I could see how a kid could drown in that.

Was only to AP, once (early 90's; our senior year, class trip), but I remember it relatively-vividly, as being one of the most *FUN* & *ENJOYABLE* times of my teenage years! There were _two_ ,...."injuries of note" in a graduating class of close to 300. One kid wiped out on the Alpine Slide and got some _MAJOR_ road-rash all on his arms/legs/side, and another kid broke his ankle when he slipped & fell racing up to the cliff dive area. Injuries aside, I'm certain that virtually _EVERYONE_ who was on that class trip that day, likely has similar, fond memories of the day, as I do! *TRULY WAS* ,...a very unique & special place/time!!

3:20 You can hear The Pointer Sisters "Jump" playing here. That wasn't released until 1983.