Abandon Amusement Park: Upper Clements
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- I do not advise anyone to explore abandon buildings or this park. It is dangerous and you can get hurt by doing so.
This park is one of my childhood favorite places, lots of good mems here and it is sad to see it closed. This park had major money problems from day one. Being built 2 hours from any city it never had enough people to go to it. Good thing for kids because the lines were short and it was a safe fun place to be. All great times here.
Please share your story of this park and what it meant to you in the comments!
It makes me sad to watch. I have great memories of this park. I remember the 'haunted house' before it was used that way. When I was a child it was used to display local art. I wanted to live in a house just like it when I grew up. I miss it.
This is so sad. We've been to UCP a few times. I remember our kids having so much fun in the places that are decrepid now. Brings a tear to the eye.
Nice video, I have quite a few memories from my childhood summers there as far back as 91. I'd always stop to the bakery for one of the giant chocolate chip cookies, I can still remember how good the place smelled. Shame it had to end up like this my favourite ride was always the antique car ride.
I was there the first year it opened. I was 10. So sad to see it come down. I spent many amazing days there as a kid, my family would take us. Our school would do a class trip there, to end the school year. And I took my son there and his friends. My dad and his band would even go and sing and be part of the entertainment once in a while. A piece of my heart will go down with the park. Many many good memories 💜
So many memories!!! as a child then with Sea Cadets every summer for 7 years, then with younger family as a 20 something.
I was a sea cadet too, but don't remember them taking us there... they might have, I only did my first cadet course there for two weeks, lots of fun!
A ton of great memories!! I really wish my kids were able to enjoy!
I know it's sad to see it like this.
Loved going there many times
I miss upper Clements Park so much I used to go over there when I was little all the time now it's a place that I will never forget😢
Thanks so much for posting this. It was hard to watch and it breaks my heart, but I think I needed to see it. We took our kids there many times as they grew up and we have lots of fond memories.
it is pretty sad. I wish they could have just moved the park closer to the city.
I feel the same way. I took my now 8 year old there when he was like 4-5. Covid is the poops
Man, that place was really cute and charming. It had a very different vibe compared to Six Flags, Dorney Park, Disney, Universal, or any of the larger amusement parks. I remember visiting Upper Clements a few years ago on a trip to NS and overall having a really good time. It's really sad to see how quickly the park was vandalized and destroyed after being taken out of service.
It's sad that people would destroy everything. Makes it impossible to ever re-open or do anything with the place.
I loved this place as a kid it pains me now the trains were my favourite part
i have great memories here, from going with my family when i was a little kid to school trips in middle school. i hadn’t been in years when it closed but it was so sad to see:( i wish it wasn’t vandalized, but thank you for documenting it before it’s unrecognizable.
Yeah it is sad to see.
I spent lots of summers as a cadet going to this park, heartbreaking to see it now for sure.
Yeah it is sad to see it in the state it is in. I was a sea cadet too!
Sad to hear that they're going to demolish the park. I have family in the area so I went there every summer vacation in the early 90's. The "Sissiboo Sizzler" Flume ride and the Mini-Golf were my favourites. So weird seeing the lake dried up like that. Hurts a bit seeing it like this.
Something I learned was that the flume ride was originally built for Expo '86 in Vancouver, it was purchased for $450,000 and shipped via 16 large trucks to Upper Clements in the late 80's.
I used to come here all the time and I’m so sad that it closed
The green building was like the gift shop . Red building was the old laser tag and indoor mini golf way back in the day.
I worked there for a couple years. Sad to see
So crazy, grew up in NS for awhile and we always went there on school trips. Also that stone building used to display art and my mom used to work/volunteer at it so I used to get in the park before it opened to the public sometimes and go on the water slide and roller coaster as many times as I could before people started arriving lol just ran around the whole park by myself that was a cool memory. It’s so sad to see it this way. Also I wonder what happened to the animals they had there was like a zoo/sanctuary area. 💔
The zoo part closed about 10 years ago and was converted to an adventure park with ziplines and such. All the animals were rehomed to wildlife parks I believe
Gonna miss the place for sure! Lots of memories there from work and personal life! Lots of great friends came from there and it’s also the first place I ever took my wife! Shame really! But that’s how life progresses and changes right?
Is it a good idea to come here with my friends to respectfully relive some childhood memories? We are a bit worried about being caught and fined for trespassing. Any tips or suggestions from when you filmed this video?
I used to work there ... The year before it was closed. I am not surprised it closed with how it was being run. It's a shame though. It was a great idea for kids to do. The haunted house was actually haunted - the man who used to live there hung himself in the basement 😢 I am more sad for him and what they will do to the house ???
I didn't know that, but the basement did feel scary!
I spent 3 summers working there in the Call of the Wild buffet restaurant
I remember in the summer of 2012 I went there 3 times in one summer once with my whole Grade 7 class
Then with my mom and then with my dad that year was the last time I went there i always had the time of my life so thank you to upper clements for all the memories you maybe gone now but you will not be forgotten
Lots of good times there. Hard seeing it left this way.
Appreciate this posting, my niece, who we took there many, many times in its hey day, told me about it.
Cool video! Thanks for posting. I gotta hand it to you: you are much more adventurous than I!
lol no problem
Yes,it's very sad and sickening to see it abandoned like that! I remember going there the first year when it opened in 1989. I think it was run directly by the government of NS the first couple of years after Premier Buchanan and MLA Greg Kerr built it to bring jobs to the area. You had to pay to get in back then,but was changed a few years later,when they started letting people in for free, but had a ticket/bracelet system for the rides. A couple of the old houses on site were actually houses along the road before the park was built and were moved and incorporated into the park. I remember an "upside down" house being one of the attractions. Went to summer school that year with one of the performers who juggled there part time. lol
A lot of people have close ties to this park and it is sad to see people destroying it.
it's kinda sad seeing the park like this I've gone here every summer and now I can't
Been here many times with my kids and grandkids during our yearly trips to NS. So sad to see it close, but they got greedy at the end. They were charging more than Wonderland at the end!
Yeah it was a lot of money at the end, and everything in the park was very expensive, not a cheap family outing.
Have memories of taking the kids there on our visits from BC. Also remember riding horses there well before it became a park. I hope the site is cleaned up!
This is really sad I used to go here when I was really little but at 2:52 was that an old lady talking
The haunted house was amazing. I loved the building and interior. Wasn't scary... Just atmospheric. Sad to see its current condition.
It is sad that ppl break everything and damaged it belonged repair.
That first house wasn't a resting stop for staff, it was the tea and fudge house, also had crafts for sale in it. The building with guest services was where you got your bracelet, paid admission. It was a replica train station. And the building where you said to buy tkur tickets or enter the park was a gift shop
I remember the stone house at 10:37. In the park's early days, it was known as the House of Illusions and visitors were greeted by a mysterious figure who magically appeared in a picture frame near the entrance. I don't recall it being especially scary, but it could be disorienting. It looks like it had been an actual residence at one point, though, which I did not know about until now. Thanks for sharing this video; I had not seen the inside of the park since 1992 or so. Any idea what ever became of the huge CNR locomotive that was just to the right of the main entrance?
I can't remember if the train was there or not.
@@novascotianexplorer9154 That's too bad. It was a very nice looking train. If it was real, then hopefully it went to a museum somewhere.
So sad I like this park
I went across the rope bridge…. 280 lbs…. Yeah burn it 😂
Sad. So many memories. My parents took quite a bit of home movies there from the early 90’s. I should see if I can upload them.
I can smell the laser tag building right now
I been there when it was open I had so much good memories there. I didn’t even know it got abandoned but someone told me
its pretty sad that they closed
The hunted house that you were in that was the staff room as I was growing up
To be fair, it closed down due to it being in the middle of nowhere. I loved it a lot.
They should've built it closer to the city for sure.
@@novascotianexplorer9154 agreed! If of was like 10 minutes outside of the city it would do really well
That was the charm though it was out in the country..
I'd love to explore there!
ALL TORN DOWN
It was open for 30 years. Times have changed.
Sorry to say it was not because of Covid it closed, the Annapolis County gave up on it as the given up on so much :(
I took my kids there for the first time the year it opened on my oldest daughter's 10th birthday, 32 yrs ago. I spent many days there just walking around people watching by myself. I worked there 2 seasons and my husband worked there one season. My oldest daughter worked there for a season before university. One of the first places you went into was a pizza parlor I worked in for one of the seasons I was there and the one you thought may be an adult eating area was Kedji Lodge, I believe and I worked there for a season. The stone house was actually the ole Precesky (sp) place. Moved there, I believe, from England or someplace in Europe, dismantled before it was brought over and rebuilt when it got here. I was told the stones were numbered so it could be rebuilt exactly as it was. Could be just a story I was told. I DO know it was a home belonging to the Precesky's and the park was built around it. It was many things over the years the park was open, lastly housing offices, I think. It was a beautiful home. I enjoyed the park. It's sad to see the state it's in, now and the damage that's been done to it. :( But thank-you for posting this video. Was the amphitheater gone? It would have been down past the 'hamster cage' you walked through.
I think it was still there. Good to know about that house being moved here, they really tried hard to make a good business there, it would have done much better in the city though.
Buildings are all gone. There is nothing left
Oh, no, I'm glad I filmed it then. Sad to see it gone.
My gosh someone doesn’t care much do they. I probably sat on that pony😢😢😢
It was so expensive! I wonder did they just walk away or did they sell the property? It’s really sad
Yeah I'm not sure if it's for sale or tied up in BK court.
It was sold .was going to be a boarding school but then covid hit and the project was abandoned or something
I remember my brother got his first girlfriend in the line to get to the water slide. Such a waste of a nice place. There not theme gonna build a school like what’s the point
Now thats a true love story!
Wow this was way before I went but ehrn I went there was way more destruction and it was horrifying
The "Haunted House" was the original structure on the property, it was built as an exact replica of a house in France by a man named Prescesky who donated the entire property to the province in his will, must be rolling over in his grave now.
The bid is actually going through for the park to be torn down now, they are actually saving the haunted house and zip line and rope bridge towers , so I assume they were bought
@@Paige3720 "Imagine a fantasy you can't compare! a land of discovery with so much to share! there's always the laughter and never a care! come tear down Upper Clements Parrrrk!!! (sorry it's been a rainy day here)
so sad!
It’s a shame people have vandalized the park. 😔
My dad live around there still and me and him used to go all the time shzme its closed but i do know what happend to the train the little one its at the truemens ice cream ijust outside of Amherst ns
The first “house” you went in was a haunted house in 2018, but instead my group ended up scaring the person
It may have been 2019
hahah, yeah the 'scary' house was never scary to anyone older than 8.
Jon Raimund haha, the flume ride was best part of that place
@@brogre2015 yeah that was a great ride
The blue house was the hunted house
I hope all this developer mess gets straightened up and someone purchases the place to reopen it
This could of been made into apartments fir the homeless
They were supposed to be building a private school
Aren’t they turning it into a school?
I was here the first summer it opened.. l was 18.. lm now 51 🥲.. went with the youth group first time .. then boyfriends.. then husband then the kids.. 💔
It would be nice if it was reopened along with the animal park across the road! What a waste.
It was game over before COVID hit! It was game over years ago… unfortunately it was just a matter of time
You butchered this with your speculation on what things were. Your commentary is awful and does little justice to the history of the park