+The Magic Geekdom Unfortunately scrappers ripped out copper, destroyed pool pumps, etc. The tipping bucket was bought by Raptor Reef (Triple Play) about 7 miles up the road. Right now this property is up for sale, with plans for the entire thing to be leveled and build on flat land (the entire hill where the slides are is a man made hill, not a 'natural' one. With 4 other surrounding water parks within 50 miles of this place, it will never be again.
Watching this video slightly saddens me. I spent many hours of my childhood here. it's was beautiful and colorful and always packed! Breaks my heart to see it like this. From what I understan, the reason it was abandoned was because that lazy river he showed was a expansion, and wild waters took out a loan that they couldn't pay, and the bank took the water park. it shut down with no warning. it would always close in the winter and then open back up in the late spring. one year it closed, and just never opened ever again. last thing, that "swimming area" near the lazy river, was actually a rope swing. it was awesome xD As a local here in cda, it was interesting to see what it looks like now, I might have to check it out myself someday. thank you for sharing!
This is amazing! Facebook recommends a video. Turns out it's Adam the woo! *goes back and watches The Fisherman and the Fridge, and the DNA energy drink videos* Hahahaha These adventure videos are awesome man! Keep it up!
please visit the abandoned Freestyle Music Park in South Carolina, it was the best amusement park i'd ever been to but closed down a year later! now its just an untouched memory..
wow i had no idea they shut that down i use to go there every day every summer when i was a kid i can tell you every slide lol thats so crazy great vid loved it ty
damn. I had no idea. this place was rad. it was kinda ghetto but that was the beauty of it. and yeah the covered one blasted 80s rock music with lights. it was good stuff.
Idaho? Thank gawd...I was afraid it was the one in Nevada. You know that little nook in front of grocery stores where you get carts? That's where the inner tubes would be kept. Cougar. Panthers are black leopards. 6:51 Who doesn't love standing in the Line Ride? Or stagnant ponds for mosquitoes to breed in?
I'd guess the part of the "lazy river" is where the tubes would chill and wait for you because it's right by where you enter. And also, cougar, not panther
Oh, by the way that was a cougar, puma or mountain lion not a panther. Not to say there weren't any somewhere in the past prehistoric era. But if you are in Florida they have a small version they call the Florida Panther. It is about two thirds the size of a regular cougar.
This is so depressing. Why don't they demolish these places? This is just a couple hours from my home. I assumed it was still open from seeing it off I-90. I remember when it was built back in the early eighties, but I never went there. I don't like water parks to begin with...
I rode an auto mechanics creeper down this the year after it closed. EPIC. Silverwood theme park beat this out. 2oh8 18 year local of cda. best city and terrain ever
Wild Waters was amazing........... Thank you for the memories...... Of course now it looks like a Rob Zombie movie set, but back in the day this place was the best. I remember a season pass only cost $49........ Also the slide with the cover was called the Cruiser....... People went so fast they finally covered it to keep em inside........... I don't know how you got in, if you're a sneaky lil guy or if someone gave you permission but I wish I could have gone with you. I'd love to bring her back to life! Thank you again!
Not really a "great job". The dude didn't know the simplest of things about this park. Honestly y'all should leave the exploring of places like this for the people who experienced it. I went to wild water almost every week when I was younger and know what everything in that park is. This dude thought that the rope swing area (the super deep part by the lazy river) was a swimming area... He failed to look up and see the large red pulls with the cut off rope at the top.
+sonikku1011 I'm considering it. He did an alright job at showing the park (although he did miss a few things). My video would dive deeper (get it? it's a water park...) into what everything was and the memories of the park, y'know? I've also considered getting other people who experienced it in on the video so that it's not just my experiences.
Net_Chix_AnKill? That'd be cool if you did explore it, since I've read some of your other comments on the video. It'd be really awesome to see someone who's familiar with the water park give us a tour of the place. :) Looks like it would have been an awesome place to hang out at, wish we had a water park like that around here where I live.
+neko goul exactly. I went there often and I see it every time I drive downtown. I'm thinking about going there an remaking this video simply because the guy who made this didn't do a very good job at describing things.
There is a new waterpark called Roaring Springs, nobody is at a loss for water parks...and they built a kayaking park off the side of the Boise River as well.
I find it amazing that they just leave everything there. when I was younger I thought that the owners always disassembled these places. I didn't have reason to think this but I thought that there was no way that they would just be left to rot.
that strange nook at the start of the lazy river is where you put your tubes when done - they stack up there so you can peel one off when you get in. But I laughed when you said "this confuses me"
Incorrect. I went here several times as a kid. It was actually a rope swing area! Super fun. Sad to see this place at this stage. It’s been completely demolished and the hill is gone. It’s a flat piece of land by a freeway now
Hey Adam do you like challenges? Cause I have one for you! There is a BIG abandoned location not far from where I am. Its called "The Pontiac Silverdome". This is the place where Wrestlemania 3 took place.
Wild Waters Commerical on youtube, looked it up out of curiosity and that is the rope swing at :17 seconds in. That's right where he was standing... kinda extra macabre after seeing the commercial all full of happy people.
This video really should have been done by someone who experienced the place. I grew up in coeur D'Alene and frequently went there. That deep pool connected to the lazy river that you didn't know what it was for is for the rope swing. The frog wasn't the mascot, a dragon was. And the place you said sold the tubes was actually where the food was sold. You didn't have to buy tubes you just picked one up and carried it to the big slide. That weird elongated pool under the roof was the hot tube, and that thing never saw a moment when less than 5 people were in it. It was always packed full of people to the point where you practically had to sit on each others laps. The slide with the cover had no theme and no lights. It was just a dark slide, but there was holes in the cover. And a lot of the rocks on the second lazy river (the oldest one with the bridges over it) were missing even when I was a kid. This place was the shit! Everyone loved it. They had slides (obviously), an arcade, etc...
Thanks for this comment. While i watched the video I was wishing I could see a before and after and your comment did a pretty good job of helping me picture the before :) Must be a little sad though to see somewhere you enjoyed often so run down and forgotten
+sara d you're very welcome. I just wish others could see it in its glory days. Literally everyone who has lived here (Coeur D'Alene) before 2010 knows of wild waters and has some fond memories of it. It was one of the places to be. I've been thinking about making a video response to this video to share more in depth of how this park was, maybe even get other people in on the video to share their memories as most schools took field trips here so there's definitely good memories.
+suswecawin from what I understand they went under because they tried to add on to the park. It was great before but I guess they thought it needed more, so they added the second lazy river, rope swing, and in water bar at 3:08 which ultimately was to expensive. If they hadn't of done that they would for sure still be thriving today and probably much larger. When Wild Waters was up and running there wasn't any competition in the area, and it's situated on a perfect lot (on the corner of a highway, and a freeway, in between downtown (which is always super busy) and Hayden (a kind of sub-town of Coeur D'Alene)) so plenty of traffic went by and stopped for a swim. The park was pretty great; I remember learning to swim there and running around with friends.
i used to lifeguard at wild waters, it was a blast. That random corridor by the sunnyside river was actually a tarzan rope swing back in the day. I'd love to see it reopen. Silverwood was not responsible for wild waters closing... they recided not to reopen one summer all on their own, the interest is definitely still alive in town!
FYI....Wild Waters has been torn down. The photos of its demise has been making the rounds on Facebook the past couple of days. Ah, not the first to mention this...supposedly they are going to flatten it to make it more sellable.
that looks way too small for a rope swing pit. you'd hit the side and break your leg. unless the rope swing was about 2 feet long. I think it's where the current came from too. You got your inner tube from dry stockpiles at the entrance.
This is great! When I was a kid my parents would drop us off here in the morning and pick us up at closing. I knew the park was defunct now, but it's neat to see inside the gates.
3:10- Intake sump for the pump. You have to have a deeper area for the pumps to take water from so that they have a constant flow regardless of overall water level.
It did back when it was in good condition around 2003 or so it was my childhood water park, I had a season pass ever summer I was alive and it was operating
It did indeed have water running. You could never see the pole in the middle unless you stayed late and saw them shutting down. When I was younger I went to Wild Waters every summer and I could never figure out how it floated until I had the guts to break the rules and climb in the tub and touch the pole.
Oh my gosh, this brings me back. I remember coming here on a youth group retreat in 1990 when I was 11. I have fond memories of this place and it's sad to see that they closed down. I can see that the place expanded and feel that it deserved a better fate. When I was there 26 years ago, I remember it being much smaller and having six slides. There were five standard ones and an inner tube slide, which I didn't think was that good. It was divided into sections and they had staffers push people down each part. The other slides overall were better. There was one I couldn't remember the name of, but the others were called the Skidder, Drop Off, Twister and Cruiser, with my two favorites being the Drop Off and the first one. I remember the Twister being the worst, because multiple times, I stopped moving before reaching the bottom and on one occasions, tried standing up just to see what would happen before the water pushed me. The Cruiser was pretty good though. It had more water, which would submerge you a little as you were sliding down. Those slides were pretty much the whole park at the time, but although it paled in comparison to Wild Waves in Washington state back then, I would've liked to have come back here when it had expanded. I also remember that at the top of the slides, people had horizontal ropes to hole their hands on before being instructed to go, but I don't remember that faucet. I wonder if it was there at the time. I feel that it might have been.
Used to go there all the time in the summer. 80's and 90's. The covering was just used to keep people from flipping out of the slide. Nothing themed about it. Frog was not the mascot. Just decoration The cool kids used to go to the hang area where you would have the fake zip line and the monkey bars kinda area and the bigger drops from slide into water. They also had the really tall slide, for a kid, that would make you feel like your body was flying off the slide until you hit the bottom. We used to have one person get in, then steal the hand stamp and come out and stamp everyone's hands or we would get one season pass card, then pass it to one another through the fence and use it several times over.
I live near Boise, Idaho. We had a Wild Waters here also. It closed about 20 years ago to make way for a larger freeway entrance. It was completely torn down. Many of the rides in Boise resembled the rides in Coeur d'Alene . Interesting to see how much the two where a like.
I am from hayden idaho, just a few minutes north of here. I went to wild waters when i was a kid. And the last time i was there was in 2009. Now the hill is gone and they are building a hotel or something there. Glad you got to document it when you did. Our little town is now ruined and over ran with out of staters driving all the locals out.
C'mon dude... That was on the slide top for safety so they don't fall out in quick turns. Probably the fastest slide. As for the lazy river part you are confused about. Again, dude, think... That's probably where the lifeguards and some tubes were held for people coming in and out.
Nah, the place is a mess. It was fun while it was open but even then it wasn't in super great condition. The slides often ripped bathing suits and such.
I first moved to CDA in 2009, there in Coeur d’Alene, and this park was still in operation then, now several years later, it’s gone. Thanks for coming up to our area. There’s lots more you can explore here too! If I’d known you came, I would have tried to meet ya. I watch your channels all the time and a big fan.
+Garrett Grimm There's actually no such thing as a Panther. The Florida Panther is actually a puma, which isn't even in the Panthera genus, so who knows how that happened. Pumas are also know as Cougars and Mountain Lions. Those poor cats have such an identity crisis. The Black Panther is actually a spotted leopard with a little more melanin. You are right with the Mtn. Lion statue. :)
some panthers are black but so are tan and look like the one in the video I know because there is a school next mine and there mascot I'd the panthers and it's tan
+adamthewoo The long tunnel slide was always just pitch black. I have heard talk about it having lights in it at one time, but it was never like that when I went there. The "water bumper-car area" you noticed was actually the play area for younger kids, I believe. It had some smaller slides, that went off the white platform. And had various other water features around the area. That area was filled with a couple inches of water, and thats why the sides are lined with that tubing. Like a "splash pad".
+Tommy TwoGun I'm not too sure. As I "grew up" and stopped going there then moved away. But I did find an article that explains what happened here: m.inlander.com/spokane/running-dry/Content?oid=2494055
I only went to Wild Waters once or twice, but it was fun and memorable. From what I remember, your guessing was a little off from some things in the park. 0:51 that slide was called Black Out and had strobe lights inside it. 1:08 That's some of the path coverings to help keep people from slipping, like you guessed at 1:58, and from getting burned feet. 1:30 I believe that it was just called the "Lazy River". 2:58 I'm sure that was where the water for the lazy river was pumped into the slide and the extra rafts were held when not in use. 5:46 That was the lifeguard & first aid station. 6:40 & 7:50 That is a cougar, not a leopard.
So many of us locals had great summertime fun at this park throughout the 80's, 90's and even into 2000! The slick corporate feel of Silverwood and even Silver Mountain just isn't the same... nor are the cheesy little slides at Triple Play worth comparing to the once awesome Wild Waters. Sigh... But thanks for the trip down Memory Lane - or rather, the slide down. :)
That water park was the best place on earth me and my brothers talk about stories from that place on the daily I’m so glad I found this video lol. By the way the spot next to the lazy river that you were confused about it was a rope swing and that was the pit you would land in and the put the stairs there for you to be able to walk out
Revisiting this video five years later to say they completely demolished this whole park and it’s a flat piece of dirt field now. RIP Wild Waters I’ll never forget going for free like 6 times cause the desk lady never punched my friends 10-free-visits card
I went to wild waters as a kid. The covered slide was just dark and sometimes they would out up lights. There was no mini golf course. They closed because of 2 water parks that opened nearby. Triple play and Boulder beach at Silverwood.
You're killing me! You obviously have never been there and u basically desecrated my memory of this place. If you want to know what everything really was and what you were wrong on, I would be happy to let you know. However, thank you for going back into that place so I could see what is there now...
I might be wrong but I went here as a kid. I remember there being a rope swing you can swing on that is really close to the Lazy River. Showed at 3:04.
that part of the lazy river that confused u was actualy a rope swing that hung off that red pole and it was just a little rope swing type thing Haha I know because I been there. it's in cda idaho
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+adamthewoo Thinking someone needs to take a bike down those slides! lmao
I think that strange area was meant as a place to store floaties.
So many childhood summers at that place
I'm always amazed the enormous amount of work and energy it takes to fight back nature.
Joked about buying this water park on the way to Silverwood last weekend. How cool to see what's inside! Probably not a good investment though...
yep, it's always sad seeing wild rivers abandoned whenever I'm up in the CDA area, Boulder beach isn't too bad though.
+The Magic Geekdom Unfortunately scrappers ripped out copper, destroyed pool pumps, etc. The tipping bucket was bought by Raptor Reef (Triple Play) about 7 miles up the road. Right now this property is up for sale, with plans for the entire thing to be leveled and build on flat land (the entire hill where the slides are is a man made hill, not a 'natural' one. With 4 other surrounding water parks within 50 miles of this place, it will never be again.
Silver Rapids Well, that's too bad. At least there are other parks in the area.
"With 4 other surrounding water parks within 50 miles of this place, it will never be again". It could be with a little TLC, and upgrades.
Hopefully Silverwood never closes!
Very sad to see a once happy place in such disrepair. Thanks for sharing I wonder what happened to the place :(
www.inlander.com/spokane/running-dry/Content?oid=2494055
"I'm guessing this was some kind of lazy river attraction"
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Watching this video slightly saddens me. I spent many hours of my childhood here. it's was beautiful and colorful and always packed! Breaks my heart to see it like this.
From what I understan, the reason it was abandoned was because that lazy river he showed was a expansion, and wild waters took out a loan that they couldn't pay, and the bank took the water park. it shut down with no warning. it would always close in the winter and then open back up in the late spring. one year it closed, and just never opened ever again.
last thing, that "swimming area" near the lazy river, was actually a rope swing. it was awesome xD As a local here in cda, it was interesting to see what it looks like now, I might have to check it out myself someday.
thank you for sharing!
This is amazing! Facebook recommends a video. Turns out it's Adam the woo! *goes back and watches The Fisherman and the Fridge, and the DNA energy drink videos* Hahahaha
These adventure videos are awesome man! Keep it up!
We used to drive by this place all the time when I was a kid going home to Washington and visiting my grandparents in Montana.
3:10 That was where the waves were produced to push people, it came out the bar looking thing
I’m pretty sure it used to be a rope swing. Last time I went I was real little but I remember a rope hanging from the red structure.
I remember this water park!~ I live in Washington and went there all the time with my family ❤
There was a Wild Waters in Boise too. They tore it down in the 90’s to make way for the freeway expansion.
adamthewoos channel is now abandoned like the rest of the places he goes to
lol maybe someone caught him on private property and no one heard from him since?
please visit the abandoned Freestyle Music Park in South Carolina, it was the best amusement park i'd ever been to but closed down a year later! now its just an untouched memory..
wow i had no idea they shut that down i use to go there every day every summer when i was a kid i can tell you every slide lol thats so crazy great vid loved it ty
damn. I had no idea. this place was rad. it was kinda ghetto but that was the beauty of it. and yeah the covered one blasted 80s rock music with lights. it was good stuff.
Idaho? Thank gawd...I was afraid it was the one in Nevada.
You know that little nook in front of grocery stores where you get carts? That's where the inner tubes would be kept.
Cougar. Panthers are black leopards.
6:51 Who doesn't love standing in the Line Ride? Or stagnant ponds for mosquitoes to breed in?
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Great video! My favorite was Joyland Amusement Park...instantly subscribed.
I'd guess the part of the "lazy river" is where the tubes would chill and wait for you because it's right by where you enter.
And also, cougar, not panther
This is so sad, these people spent time and love on this and it all got ruined.
2:58 That pocket area was probably a small wave generator. we have a similar one at the zoombezi bay lazy river next to the Columbus zoo
Oh, by the way that was a cougar, puma or mountain lion not a panther. Not to say there weren't any somewhere in the past prehistoric era. But if you are in Florida they have a small version they call the Florida Panther. It is about two thirds the size of a regular cougar.
The small area at 2:57 is where the water is accelerated to make the river flow
Wow I knew this place was bad but seriously it closed down? that place was my childhood.
This is so depressing. Why don't they demolish these places? This is just a couple hours from my home. I assumed it was still open from seeing it off I-90. I remember when it was built back in the early eighties, but I never went there. I don't like water parks to begin with...
3:02 makes a wave to get a bit of flow in the water
I rode an auto mechanics creeper down this the year after it closed. EPIC. Silverwood theme park beat this out. 2oh8 18 year local of cda. best city and terrain ever
3:05 it's where they put like a generator and there would be a gate to people won't be sucked in because it will get you sucked in
The little pocket thing is probably where the float things were
Adam, are you following the Yellowstone Caldera situation? Info from this past week will give best impacted info.
THE THING AT 3:10 was the place for the wave machine
the weird pocket thing could've been a wave pool
I liked to see adam woo ride his bike off those slides
The side pocket is what the justly of out the rubber rings in
Saw your video on my local news
Did you get permission to be there? Or did you sneak in? :P
Hi Adam, they started demolishing this yesterday. It was so sad and depressing for us locals with fond memories.
Damn, really? :(
@@Werten25 what did they put there after demolishing?
I’m not sure.
@@nearlyace Since then they flattened it out and now its just a empty field and the hotel right next to it owns the land.
@@nearlyace a la Quinta inn hotel
Wild Waters was amazing........... Thank you for the memories...... Of course now it looks like a Rob Zombie movie set, but back in the day this place was the best. I remember a season pass only cost $49........ Also the slide with the cover was called the Cruiser....... People went so fast they finally covered it to keep em inside........... I don't know how you got in, if you're a sneaky lil guy or if someone gave you permission but I wish I could have gone with you. I'd love to bring her back to life! Thank you again!
Tyeson Bennett not true. In the video the sign clearly states “Season Pass Rates $119.99 of for a family of 3 $269.99”
nice job , this is a great spot!
Not really a "great job". The dude didn't know the simplest of things about this park. Honestly y'all should leave the exploring of places like this for the people who experienced it. I went to wild water almost every week when I was younger and know what everything in that park is. This dude thought that the rope swing area (the super deep part by the lazy river) was a swimming area... He failed to look up and see the large red pulls with the cut off rope at the top.
+Net_Chix_AnKill? Then perhaps you should go and give us a tour of the abandoned park instead of saying adamthewoo didn't do a good job. :V
+sonikku1011 I'm considering it. He did an alright job at showing the park (although he did miss a few things). My video would dive deeper (get it? it's a water park...) into what everything was and the memories of the park, y'know? I've also considered getting other people who experienced it in on the video so that it's not just my experiences.
Net_Chix_AnKill? That'd be cool if you did explore it, since I've read some of your other comments on the video. It'd be really awesome to see someone who's familiar with the water park give us a tour of the place. :) Looks like it would have been an awesome place to hang out at, wish we had a water park like that around here where I live.
+Net_Chix_AnKill? Nothing better than a conceited UA-camr to give us a rundown on how much better his video is. :)
So sad to see a place like that abandoned.
ikr its specially when its your favourite theme park as a kid
+neko goul exactly. I went there often and I see it every time I drive downtown. I'm thinking about going there an remaking this video simply because the guy who made this didn't do a very good job at describing things.
Net_Chix_AnKill? well if your going there plz be carefull ^^
There is a new waterpark called Roaring Springs, nobody is at a loss for water parks...and they built a kayaking park off the side of the Boise River as well.
steadfastcoward ya but this is in north Idaho not down in Boise it's in coeur d alene
😳😳😳😳 Omgosh!!! I worked there two summers and saw it when it used to be beautiful. This is sad!
+Crystal H wow you must have tons of memories
I went there before it was so cool and nice but now it looks so.... Ugly ....
when did it shut down? any idea?
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I find it amazing that they just leave everything there. when I was younger I thought that the owners always disassembled these places. I didn't have reason to think this but I thought that there was no way that they would just be left to rot.
They should really Disassemble that stuff b/c that standing water is a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
Great thing about Coeur d' Alene Idaho is... No mosquitoes. I've lived there for 15 years and haven't seen one mosquito.
adam you should have taken your bike to try on those slides
+Joshua Treadway FUCK YES!
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and scream "I'm Adam the woo! I'm Adam the woo!"
And then he rings the bike bell😂
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that strange nook at the start of the lazy river is where you put your tubes when done - they stack up there so you can peel one off when you get in. But I laughed when you said "this confuses me"
Incorrect. I went here several times as a kid. It was actually a rope swing area! Super fun. Sad to see this place at this stage. It’s been completely demolished and the hill is gone. It’s a flat piece of land by a freeway now
Hey Adam do you like challenges? Cause I have one for you! There is a BIG abandoned location not far from where I am. Its called "The Pontiac Silverdome". This is the place where Wrestlemania 3 took place.
Many bad Lions games played at the SD ...bad memories.
Those were good nachos...that cheese sauce was spiced just right.
What about the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey?
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The corridor you mentioned was probably where the inner tubes for the lazy river were collected/stored.
I figured it was where the water would be pushed by the vent on the wall. Just to keep the river flowing
Nope! It was a rope swing spot!
Look at all those slides! To bad you didn't bring your bicycle! ;)
+Shut Yer Face Garage Lol, wiping out on a slide into nasty standing water. Hectic ; ]
+James Burnett y not being a skateboard
+James Burnett y not being a skateboard
From what I've found, It appears to have opened in 1982 and closed in 2010.
3:02 it's where they put the tubes
I think that was the rope swing bc that's what I remember
+Urban Hurtado ahhhh urban!
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Wild Waters Commerical on youtube, looked it up out of curiosity and that is the rope swing at :17 seconds in. That's right where he was standing... kinda extra macabre after seeing the commercial all full of happy people.
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This video really should have been done by someone who experienced the place. I grew up in coeur D'Alene and frequently went there. That deep pool connected to the lazy river that you didn't know what it was for is for the rope swing. The frog wasn't the mascot, a dragon was. And the place you said sold the tubes was actually where the food was sold. You didn't have to buy tubes you just picked one up and carried it to the big slide. That weird elongated pool under the roof was the hot tube, and that thing never saw a moment when less than 5 people were in it. It was always packed full of people to the point where you practically had to sit on each others laps. The slide with the cover had no theme and no lights. It was just a dark slide, but there was holes in the cover. And a lot of the rocks on the second lazy river (the oldest one with the bridges over it) were missing even when I was a kid. This place was the shit! Everyone loved it. They had slides (obviously), an arcade, etc...
Thanks for this comment. While i watched the video I was wishing I could see a before and after and your comment did a pretty good job of helping me picture the before :)
Must be a little sad though to see somewhere you enjoyed often so run down and forgotten
+Net_Chix_AnKill? What happened? Obviously it didn't suck like a lot of stand alone water parks... Especially in non-touristy areas...
+sara d you're very welcome. I just wish others could see it in its glory days. Literally everyone who has lived here (Coeur D'Alene) before 2010 knows of wild waters and has some fond memories of it. It was one of the places to be. I've been thinking about making a video response to this video to share more in depth of how this park was, maybe even get other people in on the video to share their memories as most schools took field trips here so there's definitely good memories.
+suswecawin from what I understand they went under because they tried to add on to the park. It was great before but I guess they thought it needed more, so they added the second lazy river, rope swing, and in water bar at 3:08 which ultimately was to expensive. If they hadn't of done that they would for sure still be thriving today and probably much larger. When Wild Waters was up and running there wasn't any competition in the area, and it's situated on a perfect lot (on the corner of a highway, and a freeway, in between downtown (which is always super busy) and Hayden (a kind of sub-town of Coeur D'Alene)) so plenty of traffic went by and stopped for a swim. The park was pretty great; I remember learning to swim there and running around with friends.
+Net_Chix_AnKill? what year did this place close??
The price to get in was more than Disney lol
i used to lifeguard at wild waters, it was a blast. That random corridor by the sunnyside river was actually a tarzan rope swing back in the day. I'd love to see it reopen. Silverwood was not responsible for wild waters closing... they recided not to reopen one summer all on their own, the interest is definitely still alive in town!
3:05 i think it was the coral for the floaty tube things
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It was a rope swing
You are the indiana Jones of UA-cam Adam
+Tubby Tubbs thats a huge compliment, thanks
Your welcome
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FYI....Wild Waters has been torn down. The photos of its demise has been making the rounds on Facebook the past couple of days. Ah, not the first to mention this...supposedly they are going to flatten it to make it more sellable.
I think the thing at 3:10 is the thing that creates the current for the lazy river
Yup it is
+Max Pingree it was to keep the extra tubes
No, it was the rope swing pit.
that looks way too small for a rope swing pit. you'd hit the side and break your leg. unless the rope swing was about 2 feet long. I think it's where the current came from too. You got your inner tube from dry stockpiles at the entrance.
+Father AxeKeeper that is where you are wrong. It is, 120% a rope swing.
Used to go to Wild Waters In Coeur d' Alene back in the 90's. Was a pretty hoppin' spot.
This is great! When I was a kid my parents would drop us off here in the morning and pick us up at closing. I knew the park was defunct now, but it's neat to see inside the gates.
3:10- Intake sump for the pump. You have to have a deeper area for the pumps to take water from so that they have a constant flow regardless of overall water level.
It's actually the area where you landed from the rope swing...
Rope swing? There was a rope swing? That would have been good to know.
+pfun41 yeah, the red pulls above the pit is the rope swing. That's part of the additions to the park that ran them out of money.
A rope swing seems a bit dangerous. There are 2 walls of concrete on each side. You could possibly fall
I'm the type of person that would try to get this reopen again.
Its gone now. Built apartments or a hotel there.
At least some of the graffiti was positive lol.
I wonder if the faucet had water streaming down at one time.
+Danny Boy It did! It made it look like the faucet was floating
+Erika That's so clever!
+Danny Boy Yes, it did
It did back when it was in good condition around 2003 or so it was my childhood water park, I had a season pass ever summer I was alive and it was operating
It did indeed have water running. You could never see the pole in the middle unless you stayed late and saw them shutting down. When I was younger I went to Wild Waters every summer and I could never figure out how it floated until I had the guts to break the rules and climb in the tub and touch the pole.
There's an old abandoned water park like that in Odessa Texas if you ever get out that way.
I SAW IT TOO IT WAS SO ABANDON
+ArmlessR3D Dead
So abandon
Much empty
No peoples
Wow
+Squid Ninja 428 just Shut the fuck up
ManIsCalledJezza HD But it was...so abandon.
Squid Ninja 428 just trying to be funny :3
Shoutout to my hometown CDA💯
Oh my gosh, this brings me back. I remember coming here on a youth group retreat in 1990 when I was 11. I have fond memories of this place and it's sad to see that they closed down. I can see that the place expanded and feel that it deserved a better fate.
When I was there 26 years ago, I remember it being much smaller and having six slides. There were five standard ones and an inner tube slide, which I didn't think was that good. It was divided into sections and they had staffers push people down each part.
The other slides overall were better. There was one I couldn't remember the name of, but the others were called the Skidder, Drop Off, Twister and Cruiser, with my two favorites being the Drop Off and the first one.
I remember the Twister being the worst, because multiple times, I stopped moving before reaching the bottom and on one occasions, tried standing up just to see what would happen before the water pushed me.
The Cruiser was pretty good though. It had more water, which would submerge you a little as you were sliding down.
Those slides were pretty much the whole park at the time, but although it paled in comparison to Wild Waves in Washington state back then, I would've liked to have come back here when it had expanded.
I also remember that at the top of the slides, people had horizontal ropes to hole their hands on before being instructed to go, but I don't remember that faucet. I wonder if it was there at the time. I feel that it might have been.
I cant believe this is closed D: I loved this place as a kid.
Edit: And yes.. That tube did have lights in it!
Did It? I remember it being dark, it was part of the thrill factor of dropping into darkness.
The frog had me dead 💀😂😂😂
Used to go there all the time in the summer. 80's and 90's. The covering was just used to keep people from flipping out of the slide. Nothing themed about it.
Frog was not the mascot. Just decoration
The cool kids used to go to the hang area where you would have the fake zip line and the monkey bars kinda area and the bigger drops from slide into water.
They also had the really tall slide, for a kid, that would make you feel like your body was flying off the slide until you hit the bottom.
We used to have one person get in, then steal the hand stamp and come out and stamp everyone's hands or we would get one season pass card, then pass it to one another through the fence and use it several times over.
When are you going to ask my mom permission to bring me on these journeys?
6:30 how it worked was that the water was brought up the pipe and when it fell the pipe was covered by the water
that crazy area was where the big pump would pump the water to push the river.
I live near Boise, Idaho. We had a Wild Waters here also. It closed about 20 years ago to make way for a larger freeway entrance. It was completely torn down. Many of the rides in Boise resembled the rides in Coeur d'Alene . Interesting to see how much the two where a like.
Nothing feels as good as going back and rewatching old Woo's. Such good times
Going back to old adamthewoo really is a good time.
I am from hayden idaho, just a few minutes north of here. I went to wild waters when i was a kid. And the last time i was there was in 2009. Now the hill is gone and they are building a hotel or something there. Glad you got to document it when you did. Our little town is now ruined and over ran with out of staters driving all the locals out.
That is so DIRTY 🚷🚷🚷🚷🚷🚷🚷🚷🚷🚷 it could be cursed by the iluminati
C'mon dude... That was on the slide top for safety so they don't fall out in quick turns. Probably the fastest slide. As for the lazy river part you are confused about. Again, dude, think... That's probably where the lifeguards and some tubes were held for people coming in and out.
Looks like something from "The Last Of Us".
Jesus! That bear scared the hell out of me!
that park could be s as bed just needs good clean up
Nah, the place is a mess. It was fun while it was open but even then it wasn't in super great condition. The slides often ripped bathing suits and such.
I first moved to CDA in 2009, there in Coeur d’Alene, and this park was still in operation then, now several years later, it’s gone. Thanks for coming up to our area. There’s lots more you can explore here too! If I’d known you came, I would have tried to meet ya. I watch your channels all the time and a big fan.
I believe that's a mountain lion; panthers are black if I recall
A panther is actually a black leapord, and in the same family as it's north American cousin the mountain Lion.
+Garrett Grimm There's actually no such thing as a Panther. The Florida Panther is actually a puma, which isn't even in the Panthera genus, so who knows how that happened. Pumas are also know as Cougars and Mountain Lions. Those poor cats have such an identity crisis. The Black Panther is actually a spotted leopard with a little more melanin. You are right with the Mtn. Lion statue. :)
The only cougars most Idahoans really see live alone in small apartments and write spam on Craigslist.
+steadfastcoward lol
some panthers are black but so are tan and look like the one in the video I know because there is a school next mine and there mascot I'd the panthers and it's tan
I used to LOVE this place. It was so much fun
+Erika I heard it was really great when it was opened
+adamthewoo Yeah! I used to spend tons of time there during the summer when I was in elementary and middle school.
+adamthewoo
The long tunnel slide was always just pitch black. I have heard talk about it having lights in it at one time, but it was never like that when I went there.
The "water bumper-car area" you noticed was actually the play area for younger kids, I believe. It had some smaller slides, that went off the white platform. And had various other water features around the area. That area was filled with a couple inches of water, and thats why the sides are lined with that tubing. Like a "splash pad".
+Erika What happened???
+Tommy TwoGun I'm not too sure. As I "grew up" and stopped going there then moved away. But I did find an article that explains what happened here: m.inlander.com/spokane/running-dry/Content?oid=2494055
I want to explore abandoned places like you :o
I grew up going to this water park, such a bummer to see what it turned into, they flattened everything, it’s just a field now.
I only went to Wild Waters once or twice, but it was fun and memorable. From what I remember, your guessing was a little off from some things in the park.
0:51 that slide was called Black Out and had strobe lights inside it.
1:08 That's some of the path coverings to help keep people from slipping, like you guessed at 1:58, and from getting burned feet.
1:30 I believe that it was just called the "Lazy River".
2:58 I'm sure that was where the water for the lazy river was pumped into the slide and the extra rafts were held when not in use.
5:46 That was the lifeguard & first aid station.
6:40 & 7:50 That is a cougar, not a leopard.
Sad to see the place in such a state, many fond childhood memories.
So many of us locals had great summertime fun at this park throughout the 80's, 90's and even into 2000! The slick corporate feel of Silverwood and even Silver Mountain just isn't the same... nor are the cheesy little slides at Triple Play worth comparing to the once awesome Wild Waters. Sigh... But thanks for the trip down Memory Lane - or rather, the slide down. :)
That water park was the best place on earth me and my brothers talk about stories from that place on the daily I’m so glad I found this video lol. By the way the spot next to the lazy river that you were confused about it was a rope swing and that was the pit you would land in and the put the stairs there for you to be able to walk out
Revisiting this video five years later to say they completely demolished this whole park and it’s a flat piece of dirt field now. RIP Wild Waters I’ll never forget going for free like 6 times cause the desk lady never punched my friends 10-free-visits card
I went to wild waters as a kid. The covered slide was just dark and sometimes they would out up lights. There was no mini golf course. They closed because of 2 water parks that opened nearby. Triple play and Boulder beach at Silverwood.
You're killing me! You obviously have never been there and u basically desecrated my memory of this place. If you want to know what everything really was and what you were wrong on, I would be happy to let you know. However, thank you for going back into that place so I could see what is there now...
remember this place it's near Spokane Washington.
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I might be wrong but I went here as a kid. I remember there being a rope swing you can swing on that is really close to the Lazy River. Showed at 3:04.
that part of the lazy river that confused u was actualy a rope swing that hung off that red pole and it was just a little rope swing type thing Haha I know because I been there. it's in cda idaho
There must not be a lot of minorities around where this is because it would've been totally destroyed the building would have been burned down also.
I remember going here when I was a kid and still remember the water slides to this day.
there's an abandoned wild waters in ocala, florida too!! right next to where you filmed the silver springs state park video!