Delaware's only amusement park now ABANDONED
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2022
- Todays journey takes me to NewCastle, Delaware to see what remains of what used to be the states only amusement park.
Blue Diamond Park started out in 2002 as a motorcross, ATV action park where they held races and even a monster truck show. 2003 they added 20 rides, a rollercoaster, carnival games, mini golf. but over the years people started to get injured on the rides as a result of them breaking down. this resulted in lawsuits which raised the companys insurance rates drastically, causing the company to not make any money. so they closed the amusement park, auctioned the rides off, sold the rollercoaster to a place in Florida.
1 year after closing the amusement park they closed the motorcross park and Amazon came in and built a warehouse in its place. today some rides still remain oddly behind the warehouse where the delivery trucks get loaded.
I went there in like 2004 or 05 (later elementary school) and it was an odd little park. It almost felt like a semi permanent fair because the ride area was basically a big stretch of concrete with rides dropped on it with no real flow beyond the main concourse. It didn’t help that the weather was intermittent spitting rain and low 60 degree temps, but that wasn’t exactly their fault. They had a wild mouse coaster and I think a wild cat, too, and the mini golf was average, if kinda boring and (if I remember correctly) kinda bullshit with some designs. Shame we really don’t have anything to replace it, other than, I guess, Funland in Rehoboth, but that’s definitely a commitment to get down to from upstate. Would love to see someone take an honest swing at a park sometime in the future, hopefully with more of a vision for theme or vibe.
Fun land is good for the children but sadly non of us would find enjoyment on those rides that's why I stick to wildwood now
Wow I never thought I would see an abandoned amusement park in Delaware and even though there isn't much left it's awesome and weird to see it's still here for now!!
Hi Jay. The one ride looked like a really fun ride. Too bad no one wanted to buy it. Sad to see at the same time. Thanks for the tour. 👍😊🇨🇦
Awesome find Jay! I will always appreciate a good Radio Shack reference in 2022! Keep up the great work bud👍
Yup they need to bring that store back
That's really cool to see the rides left there.
Definitely cool spot. Good find
Dude short but SWEET!! Awesome seeing all those old rides like that!!!
BTW-Im not a big fan of Amazon lol :)
thanks bud!!!!
Dude!! Sweet Find!!!
wow those rides are just left in the yard there They should just leave them its part of history
Yeah I definitely agree they don't really seem to be too much in the way of the truckers
I used to go to New Castle all the time. I never heard of it.
Always enjoy your work…. Always look forward to your next video….
Pretty cool...Too funny the rides are behind Amazon lol
yeah i know right just make it harder for the truckers to navigate around lol
Great video, very beautiful🌟
Jay, your videos are the greatest. Absolutely love them
thanks bud!!!!! always look forward hearing from you
What a shame about that. Mind you if you gonna make an amusement park everything must be safe. It is sad to see what’s left behind. Thanks so much for taking me along. Please stay safe and take care
I agree about it being safe, sadly companies like to cut corners to try and save money and it ends up costing them more in the long run
Law suits, almost sounds like an Action Park type thing. I'm surprised Amazon keeps that there. Radio Shack - a part of the intercom system?
Great find Jay!!!
Yay! New vid from Jay! Great find! Probably a fun place in it’s prime.
Yeah i came across a video on CZcams while it was still in operation it did look like lots of fun. Always appreciate you stopping by jeani b
Thanks Jay!!!!!! 💙
Great Video but Delaware has been home to Finland Amusement Park in Rehobeth Beach for many years. It has one if the desk Dark Rides ever!
Great 👍🏻 video brother Warrior!
Totally awesome and cool! Really enjoyed your video.
still wish this was still here as a delaware coaster enthusiast but i didn’t know this stuff was still here, might have to check it out!
Apparently Funland is looking to get a coaster, I have a co-worker who knows the owners, so you've got that to look forward to. Grew up going to Funland so I'm excited about that.
Abandoned amusement parks are so cool! Like! ...still missing in my portfolio ;)
You might consider investigating Brandywine Springs Amusement Park, which wildly predated Blue Diamond Park. It had rides and concessions and a lot more. You can still visit the site of the old park, but little is left of it. Still, it's a great afternoon to explore.
Thanks for the correction I'm definitely gonna look into it.
Ebic! I live just down the street from the abandoned Williams Grove Amusement Park
ohhh cool thats one place i wanna check out, but i hear the owners are mean and are quick to call the cops
@@journeywithjay heh, more like quick to drawl a gun, LOL! Yeah, I don't explore it often cuz of the high risk. The owner is definitely someone not to be messed with and he's got the whole place fortified to the teeth, but I've never actually been caught. The park is surrounded by a barbed wire fence with 5 different types of barbed wire and a moat, then depending on where you get in, you may have to cross the pond on a narrow crumbling dam that feels like it's gonna collapse at any moment. If you manage to get inside, you'll be constantly looking over your shoulder and afraid to move. The whole place is posted with threatening custom no trespassing signs that I always get a kick out of, cuz you've gotta hand it to the guy, he's funny. The deeper you get into the park, the signs get increasingly more threatening and it's honestly kinda exciting to see what dark creative message of you getting shot is around the next corner, LOL! 😅 And I've never seen the same sign twice. Also, I learned the hard way that when it gets dark, every building is equipped with motion sensing spotlights, that trigger when you walk by! So yeah, it's probably not worth it, but when you live 3 minutes down the road it's quite enticing and you've got nothing but time to plan. If you do ever go in, I recommend staying near the roller coaster on the edge of the park cuz 1, it's the coolest attraction, and 2 it's the least patrolled.
@@creatureconnor lol okay now i wanna go just to see the signs. very odd that the coaster is the least patrolled. i went once with my sister but we saw a sign saying tresspassers will be shot then we heard an angry dog lol so she chickened out and never made it inside
The Delaware state fair had rides almost every year.. not like an amusement park never showed up in the state before!
There's also Funland (was once a sister park to Willow Grove in Phili. Still owned by that same family), which the OP clearly is unaware of.
@@urbex_coasters was willow Grove Park and briefly six gun territory.. I knew the area
@@davidhibbs6989 I believe so
Very, very cool!!! Love that history to Jay!! Keep rocking the cool content!!
thanks bud!!!!!! i appreciate it
I never knew DE had a park! As a kid I went to Bushkill Park in PA & Action Park in NJ, both have since shut down. I don’t know how accessible they are now though.
Both were closed for a long while. Both are back up & running.
@@samanthab1923 I heard that Bushkill reopened only for skating about 5 years ago, but not the rides?? There’s no way that Action “traction” Park is back open 😂
@@TraceB Mountain Creek Water Park is it’s new name. In same spot in Vernon as Class Action Park. Safer I hope 😂 Now Bush opened the roller rink year round but rides are only summer. I think a lot of the original stuff like the carousels are gone.
Yeah same till I heard about this and immediately had to come find it
@@samanthab1923 Nooooo, that’s amazing there’s another park in the same place! I’ll have to check it out next time I’m up north. I do miss the cannonball falls & Tarzan swing. At Bushkill I remember the funhouse & carousel where you would pull the rings. Thanks for the info, glad to hear it!
Those abandoned rides are actually behind a UPS building, my husband works there and see those every single day. He says it’s now a home from a ton of stray cats!
Last I was in Diamond State Park was a year before it closed. It was the beginning of the end. Pitiful. About thirty people were there and that included the employees. TBH, the park looked like carnival rides. I saw employees PUSHING the tiny "roller coaster" car to get it to work and out of the way for the car coming in. I stayed for the possible entertainment.
Did you have any trouble with guards or anything while you were trying to get inside? Great video!!
No trouble at all, theres no fence or anything. You could even drive your car back there if you wanted. It's just behind the Amazon warehouse. Only thing back there is some trailers for Amazon
@@journeywithjay Awesome man, thank you!
I remember going there when it was open it was fun I rode them rides the left behind
Very interesting 🤔 I think I remember hearing about that place
So enjoyable loved the blue thunder ride, brought back good memories of my younger days 😂, should have kept it a moto cross park, probably what looked good on paper is what brought the amusement park into being, numnuts forget there is tons of upkeep safety wise on rides, moto cross drivers sign liability release forms ,thanks Jay very enjoyable good plug for the now defunct Radio Shack 🤗
This look like the Delaware state fair they had in new castle every yr but I believe they stop doing them around 2000s
Blue Thunder actually looks to be a custom Mack built Sleigh ride. Rare nowadays.
It's so empty now man when I was a young kid me and my dad used to go there all the time now it just sits and waits for the earth to reclaim it
I’m born and raise in de and lived in new castle all my life I’ve never heard of or seen and amusement park ever
I remember that. Always wondered what happened to it.
Great video and hope you are doing
thanks bud!!!!
I played lacrosse for years on that property in the early 2000’s, actually played with the owners son. Kid was an asshole but was had a good heart sometimes. I pass it sometimes and wondered what it looks like now, I remember some practices we couldn’t even hear each other over the motor cross tournaments, kid I went to high school with competed in those. Never actually knew there was a theme park aspect all those years funnily enough. 2 kids on our team almost got kicked for messing with fire extinguishers in those blue pavilions. I remember showing up to practice and seeing white clouds coming out of it in the distance lol. Played lots of tournaments there
Hahaha that's funny about playing with the extinguishers.
This isn't Deleware's only amusement park. Funland in Rehobeth, DE, is still going strong. They are known for having the world's only suspended pretzel dark ride (I have a video of it, you're welcome to check it out) and a very rare paratrooper with the backwards setting. I've heard inside sources saying they're thinking about getting a coaster within the next couple years.
On Blue Diamond, (not so) fun fact: the Sand Blaster roller coaster from Florida that had the infamous accident was at Blue Diamond before it was sold to the park it killed someone at down there. Knowing what you said about Blue Diamond's maintainance I do wonder the kind of condition it was in at the time of the sale, and what was done to fix it.
Ohh dang, I will definitely check it out. Is it a fairly new park. Maybe that opened up after this shut down. Or someone just had the wrong info on the internet which happens a lot
That isn't Delaware's first amusement park, Brandywine Springs Amusement park was the first amusement park in Delaware and It's located at 3302 Faulkland Road, Wilmington, de 19808. You have to park in the park then take the trail to the bottom of the hill and you will see the remnants
Thank you soo much for the address I will definitely be looking into it. The article I read online said this was the only amusement park in Delaware but that clearly was wrong from a lot of these comments.
Not The states first amusement park. Brandywine Springs was much earlier
And Funland is still there.
I work at that Amazon I'm actually going to work tonight and I'm hoping to find this early before work do you know which section of the parking lot I could try to search
i parked my car in a parking lot. for a park and ride on hamburg road. and theres a side road. near there i just walked over. its right in the beginning of the road
How can I get a hold of the people to find out about that swing ride
not sure im assuming someone at that amazon warehouse owns it now
Id love to referbish this ride. Should just give it to me
Wait I thought Delaware was a made up state? Just jokes love the videos
I live in DE so this is cool to me.
Can I ask where did you find the history for this place? Do you have a link for it? Thank you Is this place still around?
I don't remember exactly where I got the info but if I had to guess it was on Google/Wikipedia I use them the most of the time. As for it still being there I'm not sure, it's been a while since I was down that way
@@journeywithjay thanks for the info I’ll have to look it up
pretty sure it’s gone now, i went down there to look out of curiosity and i just see an empty parking lot and wires laying around :(
Yeah I heard they recently removed them. Not sure where they went though
Yessssssssssssssss
I could show ya some really cool places your not far from me
in Delaware????
I did there there
Is this place still around?
I'm not sure I'm from Pennsylvania, so I haven't been there since I filmed it years ago
@@journeywithjay thanks for the update
Just to let you know this place is still around I actually live near it @@Urbex_Undergroundexploring22
is it an Amazon Park now - they own everything else these days
Yup its an Amazon now
2014 it closed
Can I ask what the address is?
just look up blue diamond park, south dupont highway. thats where the warehouse is now. and you can see it on google maps.
@@journeywithjay cool thanks
I’m sorry yall this is a pure lie 😂😂😂😂 2007 me and my friends definitely would’ve heard about it we are from there or at least saw it
It's not a lie you can definitely Google it. I heard that Amazon finally got rid of the ride but I'm sure that mini golf section is still there
@@journeywithjay I’m from Delaware forget google where is it? I’m actually from new castle where he claims this is.. never heard of it ever now we have a fair that came every yr that left some old things and we had fun scape but not sure if things where left from that but never and amusement park that closed 2007 I was born and raised you can’t tell me about my own state
@@journeywithjay and just for fun I did google nothing of this sorts shows up at all just the few places I’ve named and other parks that are still open today which are beach or water parks mostly
I actually said where and show where it is. Behind the Amazon warehouse. Which named the area after it. But I guess that was a lie too. Along with some of the people that commented that they went here (pinned comment ). Along with Wikipedia they lie too. I don't understand what I would get out of lying about something in a video when people can fact check it. But whatever believe what you want
@@journeywithjay are you from de? the only blue diamond behind Amazon was a park we used to ride dirt bikes and 4 wheelers on and they would sometimes have the state fair and other things there,, it was called blue diamond park.. its wasn’t an official amusement park it was a part time fair full time dirt bike park,, how you going to tell me a out my own city