NewsPlusNotes: From The Vault: Visionland 1999 Park Map

Friday, April 24, 2020

From The Vault: Visionland 1999 Park Map

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Long before Alabama Adventure Amusement Park and Splash Adventure Waterpark came to be there was VisionLand, located in Bessemer, Alabama. The park is now in a regrowth stage (which hopefully can continue), under new independent owners, but it stated as a unique community driven theme park.

Opened in 1998, VisionLand was created by nearly a dozen local cities coming together to borrow the funds to open the modest theme and water park. After a couple years the park was in financial trouble, and Cedar Fair almost operated it at one point. Eventually it was sold to Southland Entertainment Group, which invested it in and tried to help the park grow.

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That worked for a while but then the park was suddenly sold again to Adrenaline Family Entertainment in 2008, who only held on to it for a few years - the park was sold again before the 2012 season. This time, the new owners (who were a part of Southland Entertainment) decided to close the theme park and only operate the water park.

In 2014 members of the Koch family purchased the park and started the slow revival of it that is still going on today.

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But if we look back at when the park opened, it looked like a nice place at least in terms of this drawing. While I did not visit the park, it definitely did not have the grand amount of shade that is shown here. Granted over time the park has grown in all those planted trees, but it must have been hot back in the early years!

The park is home to the highly regarded Rampage wooden roller coaster, which has been fully restored under the Koch family. Once this virus clears out Alabama Adventure will be a great place for locals to support!

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