Relive Childhood Reminiscences At SlideaWay Waterpark In Kalamazoo

One factor that may positively be stated about all people who grew up in Michigan is that they’ve nice reminiscences of rising up going to the waterpark. No matter the place you grew up, there appears to have been a waterpark inside driving distance that you simply recall going to as a child to go down waterslides, play putt-putt golf, arcade video games, and eat pizza.

Probably some of the iconic in southwest Michigan was the Slide-a-Way waterpark off D Ave., simply west of US 131 in Kalamazoo.

On YouTube, any individual uploaded a classic Nineteen Nineties business of the Slide-a-Way waterpark that was filmed in 1992. In it, it has children having enjoyable on the park whereas utilizing language that youngsters simply don’t use.

No, not like that, issues like,

In all my years, I’ve by no means skilled such amusement and joviality.

I’m wondering what number of occasions it took these children to chop these strains.

Considering it was the early 90s, eight {dollars} an individual for all day was a reasonably good value. The park itself was, as one youngster within the business put it,

Unquestionably entertaining, duuuuuude.

I grew up on the east aspect of the state, so my go-to waterpark was Four Bears, however many individuals recall the enjoyable of Slide-a-Way, and an fascinating anecdote of the park:

FUN FACT: The slides weren’t plastic; they had been cement. For security, you needed to slide down them on foam mats. Different occasions. I appear to recollect my knuckles getting scraped up from hitting the concrete.