Inside America's Largest ABANDONED Indoor Waterpark!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มี.ค. 2023
- In this episode we explore the largest abandoned indoor waterpark in America! Fort Rapids opened in 2006 after a $40 million dollar renovation from its previous use as a Holiday Inn. Fort Rapids closed for multiple reasons, some you may find shocking!
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it always feels so unreal to see places that should be filled with noise and laughter this empty.. gives me the chills
I like it
i used to be obsessed with watching vids about abandoned parks and animatronics because of that. its so interesting to me
what
yes like every mall from my childhood. Absolute horror at the direction the world went from the 80s when I first arrived on the planet.
If you ever worked in a big box store, they feel creepy like that every night after closing.
I was one of the people that got sick from chlorine exposure at this place. For whatever reason they were putting significantly more chlorine in the water then what was necessary. You could smell it from the parking lot before even entering. We were only in the water park area maybe an hour and had to leave because I was so sick. My eyes and skin were burning so bad and I couldn’t stop throwing up. I’ve never been sick like that before. This place definitely had potential for being awesome, but whoever was running it had no idea what they were doing.
I’m sorry that happened to you.
I'm sorry also
i am so sorry that happened to you. i live in MA and there’s an indoor water park called coco keys & the last time i went there i could literally smell the chlorine from the parking lot..
this sounds awful.
Chlorine is no joke. When i was a kid a train derailed and there was a chlorine gas spill. Alberton, MT. It was horrible. The town was evacuated for weeks and it even killed a person.
That is SOO well preserved to be abandoned...the fact the owners didn't want to clean it up and just left it to rot is astounding...
it’s close to impossible to sneak in. always heavily guarded
I noticed alot of owners do that, it's quite sad. All of those stuffies should've been donated to kids in need 😢
Ohio people be different 😂😂
@@zoem.3311 i heard it’s barely secured at all
@Prettyhte Machine considering how bad this place had bedbugs donating the stuffed animals wouldn't have been safe
I went here as a child, I didn't even know they closed!! It's so weird to see it like this now. Great memories here, even a field trip in elementary school.
Cool!
It’s weird those moments that remind you that we are living in the future
I was also here as kid too. I knew when my dad sent me a video about it and it hit me with memories of it.
I wonder is there any advertising footage online
Was this the one with the bacteria outbreak?
Went here as a kid with my family of five. Went about ten or so times. Never visited the hotel and always wondered what it was like. It is nice to visit my memories again after so many years. Now twenty years old, was probably like ten or so.. I remember everyones red eyes because of the chlorine lol.. Man I sure do miss those simplier times. Thank you so much for visiting!
That is so cool! Thank you for the history, and sorry for the late reply! Thank you so much for watching we appreciate you!
Insane, I worked as a lifeguard until the day we closed in 2016. We were told not to come back it’s closing. I still have a lot of good memories working there other than being overdosed by chlorine and the bugs. Good to see it one last time before it gets vandalized 👍🏽
That’s cool history!! Glad we gave you the opportunity to see it again! Thank you
Feel free to ask anything. also that empty space near the old west photo area was the arcade, the weird chairs were for the bar, that restaurant was a cheap Asian-seafood buffet named koos, there used to be a large longhorn on the fireplace that’s why the ladders there.
I bet it was amazing when it was full of families and water. Despite the downhill of the operation, bugs, and health violations
bugs as in roaches?
@@zacharydellamano7199 roaches and more.
I worked here when it first opened. It pretty much went downhill the day it opened. You were looking for the stairwells to the hotel floors, the door is actually outside the hotel. They emptied to the outside, which was an issue with guests. Kids would go down the stairs, in their bathing suits, in the middle of winter, not knowing they exited outside. Then to get back in, you needed a room key card, which most kids did not have. Working there provided me with so many stories.
Can you share some of those stories, if it's not too much trouble?
Same thing happened with me! I was tired of waiting for the elevator over 30 minutes!!’ I used the stairs for it to lead outside in the winter time. Oh I was pissed
Seeing this made me tear up yall…. I had my 14th bday party here in 2008… place was soo clean & fun when it first opened.. we had a BALL here. I remember when the pool shut down for the night. We ate at the restaurant & a bunch of kids was outside playing football & me & my friends joined. 16 yrs later I STILL play ps5 online with some of them 🙌🏾
Sounds like you had an awesome experience! We would have loved to see this place running!
Crazy how its like frozen in time, and it looks as well as it does. I spent 12 winters in here n it still looks how i remember it as a kid
I have been waiting for an in depth exploration of this place since the day it closed! This is so awesome, I went here as a kid yearly with my cousins and my grandparents. It’s so strange to think that I was once there with my family and just to see it so empty and creepy now. Thank y’all SO much for doing this!😄
As a kid growing up in north eastern Ky, if we wanted a good get away weekend we would drive 2 hours north and come here. It was amazing and a lot of fun as a kid, it’s just so sad to see how it is closed. I had so much fun here. It was kind like going to Gatlinburg Tennessee in a way. Can’t believe it looks like that. As far as the water park goes, I hope people don’t mess with it and destroy it.
That’s just so sad. I mean heck, the artwork on the walls, and those horse sculptures! Those are some beautiful pieces!
I used to go here quite a bit as a kid, my mom worked at a daycare that went here frequently and I was lucky enough to tag along.
Seeing the videos of it abandoned now with the music gave me emotional flashbacks.
It’s crazy how well preserved it still is, the slides and stuff, etc. like this section 3:37 I can still picture so many kids having fun there.
great video. Thanks. I hope they will restore it or turn it into something else someday.
Thank you so much!
Just found your channel and this video through youtube recommendations and it felt as if I was sent back in time, this video gave me a wave of nostalgia from the views to the music, I loved it all and will be watching more for sure! ♥
That's awesome!
Went there in the summers of 2007-2009. We moved to Florida in 2011. I had no idea what happened to this place, I’m in shock. I had some great childhood memories there. But now, it’s so weird to sit here and look at all the slides and rooms I’ve been in that were full of life and happiness abandoned like that…just wow..
Honestly I would love to buy this place and get it up to code and running again. It looks like it would have been awesome had they actually taken care of the problems. Maybe update and change a lil bit of the decor. Turn the hotel part into affordable apartments. Could be pretty neat. Extremely sad to think about how its going to get completely vandalized.
it’s pretty heavily guarded and has been closed for 7 years already. i live really close and pass it everyday on my way to school. i know this past winter a pipe burst on the side of the building, and the building took a good amount of damage from that.
@@zoeymaynard2038This past winter a pipe burst on the side of the building again?
Is it me or does the traffic sounds make this even more eerie?
This would have been my favorite theme for sure. That tan horse that is laying down is called a buckskin color and that is the color of my horse charm. I wonder if they would let me buy it or take it, I'd love to have it in my yard!! Awesome place.
I would have so taken a monkey, and seriously why are there always wheelchairs in abandoned places? It makes it creepy.
Sure did!! And cool!
Wheelchairs are always found at abandoned places because every public area should have them at the ready for those who have trouble walking. In short, public areas often have wheelchairs out of necessity. They are often still there even after the abandoning because let’s face it; of all the things to steal who’s gonna make off with a wheelchair?
@@muggawump9564 well that much I knew. I was just making a joke about that. I knew places need them.
@@ILovemyhorsecharm Ah, sorry then!
It's right next to the freeway. It even had its own freeway exit sign.
Sad it’s shutdown but that’s a lot of code violations.
Like what
@@oscarlemus8153like in the video
You folks always find the coolest places that other urbex explorers don’t even know about. Keep up the great work.
Thank you so much!
Thank you for posting! I'm always fascinated by abandoned stuff like this, and this is the most in depth look of this place I've seen. It's amazing how much stuff is just left behind! Great Wolf of Kalahari could definately get those slides working again, especially since the Sandusky Great Wolf is desperately missing that star attraction. I may not be the biggest fan of the intended theme (then again, I ride coasters almost uncritically so I'll admit to being a hypocrite there) but I'd spend a night here for the spookiness of staying in an abandoned hotel factor. If you want to do urbex together sometime, I'd be happy to meet up.
Thank you!
I had my 10th birthday here in 07, amazing place. Came back for a number of times when my school had FR host the statewide testing. For a place that was so full of life, it makes me sad to see it like this. I will always cherish the times I spent here. Thanks for the last look.
Came here for my 10th birthday in 08 crazy how time flies wish they could’ve kept better care of her
Woah! Just discovered your channel and instant sub! We need more brave people like you guys sometime... especially when it comes to exploring abandoned places. I bet that wouldn't be me but im am building courage to explore a abandoned place.
Also that horse figure lying on the floor was just creepy ngl.
Thanks for the sub!!! And thank you again for everything else said 😊. You should definitely explore if you can, it’s fun!!
@@urbaxvibes I just subbed to I’ve been to an indoor water park recently I don’t think they were keeping it up either
@stpworld - Thank you!! And wow!
Soo sad seeing these types of places close up and become abandoned. Kind of surprised to see power on in part of the complex. Judging by the look of the place the water park could be cleaned up, resolve the hotel issues and make a whole new place out of it. 59:00 wonder if the smell was from the water damage from the pipe bursting up on one of the top floors. If so, that's quite a few floors worth of damage.
I use to live near this hotel and water park. Lots of code violations such as fire code violations, bed bugs/bug infestation, food violations etc etc. It's sad that it shut down but, hopefully they'll tear the building down and repurpose that lot for something useful
They repurposed the hotel from a Holiday Inn. Maybe it'll just go back to the one building and they'll figure out something with the old water park.
I hate when people destroy stuff..like just bc it’s abandoned doesn’t mean we need to destroy it. I love seeing abandoned stuff and the more people that go in and destruct the less there will be in the future. 🤦🏽♀️
I went to FR a few times when I was little, it’s sad that it shut down but I’m glad someone’s documenting it after so long!
Im glad you two stay safe while exploring abandoned places. Great video 👍🏻
We went here for a family reunion. My mom and brother got chlorine poisoning. The place was absolutely wild. Going on the slides would literally make you sick. I forgot where it was, but it is a surreal memory. It was both just absolutely awful but tons of fun. I wish it would reopen with a renovation and new management
That looks like it was such a nice place! I love that it is in pristine condition! Hopefully vandals will not find this place, because it would be very sad if this place was destroyed.
This gives me chills the throw back, everything looks excatly how i remember it. Our family would go here once in a blue moon for a short vaca, i even remember spending New Years there on year, i personally don’t have a bad memory at all. Very cool to see this!
My friend and his mom won tickets on WNCI to their preview night. My friend invited me and my family to go with them. Before the park even opened, it was over the top with chlorine and etc. I knew as a kid even though it was fun, I didn't wanna go back. The chemicals made the indoor areas absurdly hot... hotter than an outdoor water park by a long shot... as well as all the bodies.
Good memories though.
Someone needs to buy this waterpark and fix the issues that made people sick. There is no reason someone can't reopen this and fix these issues.
I’ll never understand why nobody has ever invested into this place. IDK if it’s worth anything with the water main break. If I had the money I’d absolutely invest in this. It’s so sad they let it go under. Columbus needed this, needs this.
that's exactly what i was thinking
When I was a kid me and some friends and family members went there when it first opened and seeing it now just brings back nostalgia and good memories of the good ol days
A little late to the game but I’m catching up, and have to say this was one of my favorite places you’ve done so far, thanks for not making it paranormal like 80% of other channels (guessing) have-keep up the wonderful work-just subscribed
Thank you ! So glad you enjoyed this one, it’s one of our favorite explorers too! 🙏🙏
I'm really surprised how similar it looks to Great Wolf Lodge. Kind of surprising they didn't get sued actually. Really cool video!
i’ve noticed most water parks are wild west themed. it’s probably because it is so easy to do.
i agree, the designs of the slides and structure too
went here growing up, we lived 2 hours east of columbus. i have very vivid memories here. it’s really surreal to see all this so decayed. it feels like such a distant memory now. thank you for sharing
Just ran across your channel. Great video. Loved the news reports about why it was abandoned. That place was truly huge.
Thank you!! 😊
Haha thank you!
I went there before it closed. The smell of the chlorine in the water park was overwhelming; but the place was cheap.
I attend the school located next to fort rapids. Every day we look out the window to see this building. While it’s a bit of an eyesore, it’s also sad to think about the potential. I’ve been wondering what it looked like on the inside. Very nice video 💯
This had a really eerie feeling to it, but thank you so much for uploading!
Thank you!!
Just discovered your channel kids! I loved watching your video! You did an amazing job with your exploration. I am one of those people who is always curious to why a business fails. Things seem so good when you visit a place then next thing you know its closing for some reason 🥺. Thousands of people left wondering what happened.
Thank you!!
I am so addicted to your vids! You guys do an outstanding job!
Glad you like them! Thank you!!
I'm so jealous yall got to go in. every time I'm here, there's always cops guarding the place, but I'm seeing more videos of this place. maybe I'll have to explore one day
Place is 7 minutes from my house. Lived in central Ohio most of my life. I drive by it all the time. Never got a chance to go, but there are other places in Ohio similar that have been open forever and never had issues like this. I can't believe how incredible it is inside the water park. Insanely clean for being abandoned for years...and the owners are pure trash and owe the city way too much money. A guy is trying to buy it so he can turn the hotel into a legitimate affordable housing place. He's done it to many abandoned hotels for years and it works. I hope it goes through because it needs to be revitalized into something good. Thank you for going in and showing it to us. Incredible channel, incredible people. Instant sub before i watched a video.
Thank you!
I live in Columbus and every time I pass there I always get chills because I went there for a birthday party..
Went here all the time as a kid, it’s a shame that it had to close down. I always had the best memories when it was open.
I love the decor!! I would literally hire someone to take it and ship it to me.
Man the memories we spent every weekend here
It was always so warm in there when I went. Plus, with all of the excited squeals of kids and water running, the sound of the highway was severely dampened. I loved the hot tub, the slide that pops out and into the building, and the funnel. I think there was also a lazy river (which are always the best at a Waterpark 😊.) Pretty sure the first empty rooms led to locker rooms.
Crazy I went here as well. I use to take my little brother and his friends there to hang out. It was crazy when they closed down but when I seen that it was nasty definitely didn’t go back. But a lot of memories for sure and fun times.
Our family Went here every single summer a handful of times each summer with my mother it was her FAVORITE place. Seeing this just brought back so many precious memories 💕
Bro I just saw this driving by today and I’ve never heard of it. How lucky am I that a new video about it just surfaced!
I googled this park, the before pictures that we’re taken are pretty cool to look at.. it was a very neat place, sad to see it went down the way it did .
I went here multiple times as a child and have so many good memories. I know it maybe wasn’t all that clean and what not but it’s the first time I went on the “toilet bowl” side
Dude I've been eyeballing this spot for YEARS, last I tried to get in was 2 years ago and they had fucking motion sensors and security on standby. So happy to see it finally being explored.
Went here a couple times as a kid for birthday parties. Loved this place until I got some kind of flu from the chlorine. I still drive by this place all the time and see the vines growing from the side of the hotel and the busted up windows
I would love to see that place, but I'm sure security is pretty active there. Awesome video!! Thumbs up!!
Thank you!!
I went here a lot when I was a kid with the daycare I went to. I was only about 7 so I was too scared to go down any of the big slides so I only went down the small yellow and blue ones. I do remember the lazy river and deep end pool, I miss this place so much!
Childhood for me when I was younger I would go here on the weekends . It was fun
Cool!!
Columbus native here that never got a chance to go to Fort Rapids. Thanks for showing me what it looked like!
Drive past it all the time on I 70. I remember going there for meetings at work. I remember them building the water park addition. It seems that those buildings depreciate after ten years or so, they get sold then the new owners let it go to waste. Don't want to spend the money to maintain it.
I have many childhood memories in this place. I drive past it almost every day. Thanks for visiting this place I always wondered what it looks like now
Well that’s an unlocked memory’s 🤯 went here with a VBS group as a kid
Does anyone happen to have a photo from back in the day when the pool (with the saloon background 38:21 in the video) was filled and working???
I have searched every single photo on Google including blogs and their official FB page and cannot find one!
I’d really appreciate it 💕
Great video!!!
I wanted to watch yall slide down the slides at least once lol
This is my comfort video on TH-cam rn
Really cool to see this. I drive by it almost every weekend!
Cool!!
I was here when I was younger, this is so crazy to see it as it is now.
No matter what type of abandoned video people film wether if it’s a water park or amusement park Thas been abandoned for several years the music they put in these videos jus makes it even more sad 😪
I lived right by here before moving to the northern part of the city and drove past it everyday. I always wondered what happened to it!
Wanted to go here as a kid that grew up in Columbus in the early 2000’s and always heard the commercials on the radio. Glad we never went after hearing the complaints of other friends’ families that went.
i went the highschool behind it from 2017-2021 and i remember all 4 years, there’d be police and such training k9s someone once said. it’s wild to actually see inside it.
I graduated from the high school across the street from Fort Rapids in 2022. Me and my friends would always stare out the classroom windows and look at Fort Rapids, wondering what it's like inside.
I worked there back in 2010 doing maintenance. Hotel and water park side!!! Very cool video! Never been back since! Would love to walk around and explore this place empty. Lots of memories,good memories. Didn’t realize how bad it was until 2-3 years after I left and new owner came in. Smh very sad bc ppl lived this place.
Loved!
Cool!!
There’s a place in Ohio called Maui Sands that has been abandoned for a while now. They had major health violations and bed bugs.
There’s a video on here about it…😢
I live 2 minutes away from Maui Sands it was nasty from bed bugs to people cutting their legs on the jagged rusty steps inside the water park so we have Great bear/Great wolf lodge & Kalahari Resorts and 1000 other hotels another 1 of the millions of empty buildings.The way things are going maybe you can do a video on the White House.Good video guys keep up the good work.
Crazy they had the money to put in top quality water attractions on par with larger water park companies.
Can you imagine standing at the top and hearing all the water running and all the kids screaming?!
passed by this place everyday on the highway on the way to my dads. it’s really a huge building.
I went there as a kid. Crazy it’s closed now!
You got me from TikTok ! Instantly hooked from that clip you posted !
Awesome!! Thanks for watching!
Cool explore of this water park I can understand why this place closed down when you have also a hotel you need to keep the rooms spotless and clean even the beds etc even the water park would need to be spotless sounds like the management didn’t care having the place spotless clean.
47:58 “he got ripped open but he was a cute moose” 😭😭 poor moose
Wow this is amazing thank you for sharing!
Thank you for watching!!
I drive by this place almost daily. Just so sad that it's still sitting abandoned.
omg I love your pictures you took. You two are my favorite. So many people try to be "authentic " but they don't get that being real means don't put on.
This feels almost like it's out of a zombie apocalypse Horror movie
My boy Russ out here on his urban exploration shit , hell ya 😂💯
Love the video tho just goofing around brotha 🙌
Pretty Cool that it’s Themed as a Western Waterpark! Yeehaw!!!!
I know right!!! 😅
Wow! I drive past there every day! Didn’t know they just left everything inside and haven’t cleaned it out!! Been there many times it was a great place at one time! So sad!!
It's sad that they closed this down it looks so big and nice ❤
Sure is! wish we got to see it in action!!
this is so nostalgic in a weird way me and my brother have lots of memories and pictures here we took old timey photos too😂❤️
That’s cool!!!
It doesn’t seem unreal seeing something from your childhood go from thriving to desolate
I pass this everyday to go home and I’ve been so curious to see what the inside looks like now that it’s abandoned thank you for posting this
Thank you!
did anyone else think that the mans voice sounded so soothing to listen to? no... Just me?
That room downstairs was probably the water pump room possibly
Every birthday I had I had it there. We rode out the blizzard of like 07 there great memories
I love those leg stools. I'm always shocked to find how much stuff is left to rot. Sheer waste.
OMG I WENT THERE THE FIRE ALARM WENT OFF AND IN THE WATER PARK A KID HAD POOPED AND I ALMOST GOT KIDDNAPED THERE THE CLORIR WAS NO JOKE!!! BUT THE SWINGS IN THE WATTER WHERE RLLY FUN
I used to go here all the time. Everytime we left our eyes would burn so badly because of how much chlorine they used. I also lost my cloud city bobba fett here in middle school :(