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Disney's Abandoned River Country. River Country was Walt Disney World’s first waterpark.

Disney's Abandoned River Country

It opened in 1976, and closed for the final time in 2001. Since 2001, the area has sat virtually undisturbed. The slides and pools remain in place. Here is a map of how the park was laid out: Here are some photos taken in November, 2009. These photos begin with photos of the slides which were known as Whoop ‘N Holler Hollow. This is the slide as it looks today: This is the view of Bay Lake and the Contemporary Resort in the distance from the top of Whoop N’ Holler Hollow: Here are some more shots of the Hoop N’ Holler slides: This is an old water wheel that used to spin around at the top of the hill: This is one of the sets of stairs that led up to the slide. More photos of the slides: Here is the water wheel from another angle.

This is the walkway that leads to the lower slide: Things are continuing to fall and rot: This is the beginning of the lower slide of the Whoop N’ Holler Hollow: Surreal Abandoned Amusement Park in Berlin. "QUANTUM SHOT" #757Link - article by Avi Abrams Past glories of Socialist "fun & games" deserted and overgrown with weeds We here at DRB are big lovers of abandoned amusement parks, see for example our Abandoned Disney and Abandoned Amusement Parks in Asia.

Surreal Abandoned Amusement Park in Berlin

These places are truly haunting and provide an incredible venue for urban exploration, atmospheric photography and, perhaps, even for a location or two for low-budget movies. Spreepark PlanterWald, near Treptower Park in Berlin: complete with fallen dinosaurs! (images credit: Sara, Sarah Porteus) Many such deteriorating parks are hidden behind security barriers, or camouflaged with faux facades in an effort to pretend that they do not exist. It is clearly marked on every map - and does not seem to be closely guarded. (image credit: Ray Kippig) The ferris wheel is always the highlight, the most prominent feature of such places, and the Planterwald ferris wheel does not disappoint: (images credit: Sarah Porteus, Julian White)

8 Abandoned American Theme Parks “Open” for Exploration. Amusement parks walk the fine line between fun-ish and semi-creepy. Maybe it’s the combination of sketchy rides, circus folk, questionable attractions, and way too many screaming kids, but there’s something a little unsettling about them. Add an ill-advised theme into the mix, and you’ve got a real summer-time winner. Although for most of the 20th century amusement parks were a staple of American culture, the shine is definitely off the bumper car. Tons of new parks litter the country, but many of the old classics, unable to compete with the snazzy new parks, have been shut down. Most have been destroyed to make way for housing developments and malls, but a few still remain. But be warned urban explorer! The Prehistoric Forest, Irish Hills, Michigan Imagine Jurassic Park, but instead of real, blood-thirsty-Jeep-munching dinos you get dilapidated, stationary dinosaur statues situated around a mediocre community pool.

[All Dinosaur Images: RoadsideArchitecture via Debra Jane Seltzer] Abandoned Japanese Theme Park Creepy. China's Fake Disneyland, Overgrown and Ghostly.