Lake Winnie Amusement Park Tour & Review with Hyde

[@madisonforsyth7387]

I love Lake winniepesaukah!!!! It was big part of my childhood! I remember going every summer all summer long when I was a kid. Good ole days! This makes me sad.😭😭😭 Please open back up to normal this year.

[@clothescircuit]

fond memories of this bizarre, tiny amusement park. amazing to see it. thank you!

[@SentientTrafficConeMan]

I realize to an outside perspective, this must look horrible. To me, I grew up coming here. I really hope this park survives, I may have outgrown it, and I can admit I'd rather to go Six Flags on most occasions, but this place is irreplaceable to a lot of us around here. Even seeing the golf course like that broke my heart, one of my only memories of my late grandmother is when we decided to spend the extra money to play mini golf. My girlfriend and I were hoping to go there on an ironic date of sorts, but now I'm honestly just sad. I'm worried about the park, I'd truly hate to see it go away.

[@hannahbanana5720]

Yea, same. This was always my fave place to go as a kid, some of my most cherished memories as a kid where me and my cousins waiting in line for a funnel cake and being terrified of the clown at the end of the wacky factory. I don’t know what I would do if it closed down, to many memories were made here.

[@SentientTrafficConeMan]

@@hannahbanana5720 Ah man, the Wacky Factory was called The Castle when I was a kid, I loved it. It was your typical cheesy dark ride, UV paintings on the walls and random pits of green “goo”. I’m glad they kept the truck horn gag though.

[@hannahbanana5720]

@@SentientTrafficConeMan I went recently and the truck didn’t honk 😢 Also the in the tin foil room most of it has been pulled off. :(

[@SentientTrafficConeMan]

@@hannahbanana5720 The Castle will always be elite, it lost its charm when they converted it :/

[@hannahbanana5720]

@@SentientTrafficConeMan agreed, I only got to see it as the castle once. But from what my fam says it was ten times better.

[@RoadsideExplorers]

Seems like a nice classic picnic grove park. The boat chute is a real treasure!

[@hannahbanana5720]

I remember my family always saving up Dr Pepper cans before coming so we could get the discount 😂 Gosh, this video is bringing back SO many childhood memories. I don’t know what I would do if this place closed down.

[@hannahbanana5720]

Lil update, a few days ago, my fam went there! It’s almost completely back to normal! Whilst it isn’t as busy, and a lot of rides have been replaced, it’s good to see that it survived! I had a great time!

[@godragons100]

@@hannahbanana5720 thank God. Love this place.

[@dolphinchair7491]

This is my local park and it’s super sad to see it in the state it’s in right now. It’s never been super snazzy or anything for as long as I can remember, but with all the plants being overgrown and rides just flat out not even assembled.. it’s weird. I get it though, they’ve never had that high of a budget and only add a new flat ride once every few years at most. I think it’d be worth it to check it out when all this ‘rona shit blows over though, the atmosphere is definitely pretty unique.

[@itzthatgamer6495]

yeah same

[@itzthatgamer6495]

I live in Chattanooga and i come there every Halloween

[@colt6488]

Lake Winnie is about 15 minutes from me too. It’s a shame how run down they have let it get in the past several years. It needs a major revamp!

[@ayonoah7240]

@@itzthatgamer6495 same I’m about 15 minutes away

[@BarryGGould]

forget the shoot the chutes and cannonball. i wanna ride that pirate ship thats right on the water. thats soo cool. great touch. that thing should never ever be closed.

[@PhantomGun4]

that was a mini golf course. there used to be a huge metal train sitting in the back next to a stage area for concerts. a model T car ride. a scare house. a video arcade. used to feed cat fish with pop corn. there was a couple more rides behind those early carnival game booths. my fav ride got shut down years ago... The Rock n' Roller. a spinning up and down ride were they blared rock music.... from what i was told some grandmother complained it damaged her hearing and they were forced to shut it down....

[@oreosk8ter]

Been here once when I lived in Cleveland TN. It was kinda disappointing. And seeing it now makes it even sadder. Dollywood should pick this up ASAP!

[@southernguitarist6333]

Six flags already did 3 or 4 years ago. Nothing huge is gonna happen.

[@yorukama]

i dont think it is weird you were there by yourself

[@KentuckianaCoasters]

First minute had me rollin. 😂

[@Coaster_Crazy]

What a shame to see a park like this with rides closed and weeds growing out of the paths and they charge full price !!

[@plb525berry4]

I was at the park on Saturday (8/1/2020) and at least tried to enjoy myself despite half of the rides closed due to lack of staff and some of those rides not assembled. I went there regardless because I wanted to ride the water slides when I was too heavy last visit.

[@LysaMathis]

You came at a time when we weren't sure if we could remain open due to covid. The Health Dept would tell us when and what we could open.. Then we would have to send people home due to being sick so it left us with very limited help.. We have ALWAYS strived to to be a family fun place to bring the kids. The boat chute was built by the owners grandfather, their monument lays beside the entrance in dedication. Please google this place and read the details about the different rides. Alot of them are unique to the time.. All of our restaurants weren't able to open the past 2 seasons except for 1.. even this season it's going to be hard to maintain. But give them another shot before doing a review.. You'll see they really do try to make it so everyone has a great time.. 🙂

[@phalanges1972]

A year later. Took a visit. Yep still got most of the rides closed.

[@chrismoran4901]

Great video, Hyde! Honestly, not a park I would pay $35 to visit, even with rides open. Still cool to see some of those older rides.

[@HelenHarp-d6o]

I live less a mile from Lake Winnie off Lake View Drive at the Red Light ok?

[@caitlinleamon7971]

the front operator for the cannonball is my sisters bf, he was pretty bummed that not everything was opened this year.

[@chickenscratch420ify]

Seems like a friendly place...

[@joehe4787]

I wonder if most dry rides were not operating because they are focusing on their waterpark or Lake Winnie is just understaffed.

[@katiequarles2474]

I worked there and the water park is a whole different job than working in the park no one wants to work Bc they only pay 5 to 7 dollars an hour

[@dawsonwright3938]

You should go on Halloween it’s crazy its all shoulder to shoulder but I always remembered it should to shoulder a people yelling at there kids to stop wondering off and that was like two years ago I hope this year it goes back to normal

[@tonatiuhnino3711]

What's the point of reopening the park when almost all of the rides are closed?🤔

[@johnlovesbridge]

"There's a sucker born every minute."

[@stormgirl09]

"Is it weird that you are at least getting my money???"

[@jbondelli]

It looks beautiful. What happened to it??

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

The pandemic happened.

[@teejayjohnson5843]

I went up there as was so mad nothing but the water park waterpark was open

[@bigred8025]

COOL LAKE WINNER

[@mitchellries256]

I guess this is what a small park looks like ordinarily when there's a pandemic and nobody is in a hurry to visit. I can only imagine how much better it looks when the world isn't in a time of crisis.

[@Melissa2087]

I hate all these amusement parks that are selling full price tickets for only half the rides running or even less!

[@CisForCoasters]

It's too bad the park is struggling this season. It makes me sad thinking about the economic toll this covid situation is taking on the smaller parks. On a side note, the bad medicine on the skyride... lol kind of fits the visit, huh? 😉

[@kristensneed2830]

i use to work the a long time ago. we use to have lines out the a$$!! it was crazy! knowing what i know about it i will never go as a rider and i will never let my kids go there either!

[@zeekman7223]

Hi Hyde 😋

[@zeekman7223]

Not sure why you guys don’t do a live stream one a week. You would get a ton of donations

[@colt6488]

I live about 15 minutes away from here and it’s so sad how run down and out of shape this park is. Even before covid, a good bit of the rides were not running or they’re very run down and haven’t been kept up in years. I wish someone would buy and revamp it and add some newer and better rides. It used to be great about 15 years ago, but it’s just been going down hill fast since then.

[@jenniferschleger5281]

Well I am going there tomorrow 😔

[@EjectorThrills]

I used to love this park but now it’s getting lazy I wish they would do more and add a new coaster

[@HelenHarp-d6o]

I would like you to restore music pop please for my sake?

[@georgehartley1535]

Wow...full price and everything's closed...thats tacky that they'd charge that..ps the chute ride is about 100 years old

[@6548ww]

It is very sad to see the Park like this most of my 80s childhood was spent here I need to go visit again soon if nothing just walk around my last trip there was in 90-91? It was so crowded you could barely move wait time for the rides then was no less than 30-35 mins but with the state of things now at the Park no way I would pay full price to get in with only 1/3 of the park in Operation and most of the vendors gone or closed this is so sad to see it this way if they would pay employees more than $8 an hour they would have staff to operate the rides and more people would visit ☹️

[@pryxed7972]

This is just heart breaking to me as a kid we would go here all the time and I can tell that it was packed lines actively ride great laugher it’s ashamed to see it in this pistion

[@KR-sh6rm]

They should be ashamed charging $35 when 90% of the park is closed. I would say $15 would be a fair price as it is now.

[@Joypyf]

They should only take your money in good faith they are trying their best to have attractions open. Having only a handful of rides open is unacceptable.

[@janeattaway9315]

Just sad...our family of four got season passes. Love the rides don't do the water park.

[@itzthatgamer6495]

why

[@janeattaway9315]

We just don't care for the water park.

[@HelenHarp-d6o]

If I was the owner of this park like Winnie and I will have it open a year round but I'm going to have a change of it and I'm going to do put in a music pop between Boca cars in the road closer but you better not cross me okay? But if you do you're going to lose a lot of rides And I'm going roseate this theme park from my experience and I live That's her mouth from here and I know what you going to do and also you going to pay me a lot more money then I have to pay for outrageous pay but if you don't you will be out of business and I promise you you will never mess with me ever again just wait and see.