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Action Park was a waterpark/motor themed park open from 1978 to 1996 in Vernon Township, New Jersey, on the property of the former Vernon Valley / Great Gorge ski area, today Mountain Creek. Its popularity went hand in hand with a reputation for poorly-designed, unsafe rides; inattentive, under-aged, underpaid and sometimes under-the-influence employees; equally intoxicated and under-prepared visitors—and the poor safety record that followed from this perfect storm of circumstances. (via Ed)

Oh Action Park, I miss you.

“Action Park was a true rite of passage for any New Jerseyan of my generation. When I get to talking about it with other Jerseyans, we share stories as if we are veterans who served in combat together. I suspect that many of us may have come closest to death on some of those rides up in Vernon Valley. I consider it a true shame that future generations will never know the terror of proving their grit at New Jersey’s most dangerous amusement park.”

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   At least it gave the doctors...some good puns. “CLASS ACTION PARK”

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   Jersey, where you at? This...be during Junior High. It was commonly called Accident Park,...

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   Jersey theme parks...are well maintained. Sure.

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   Action Park was an awesome adventure in ‘who’s coming home the most injured?’ None of these happened the same day, but...

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    commercial for Action Park: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SxhNai4Zhs - it’s kind

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    LOL. I’ve actually been to an...before. I was still pretty young then. And this is where...

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    Fucking Action Park.. haha. I remember going there once in the early 90’s and it was so charmingly dangerous, of course...

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    hilarious section...volume two of Weird New Jersey devoted to this theme park. It’s well...

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    Park, I miss you.

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    Shellac album name, At Action Park. Notorious...having a weird case

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