CLOSED forever Upper Clements Park (Nova Scotia) | VLOG | July 2019
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- Little did we know that this was the last few weeks the park was ever open. Come along at Alex visits this park in the middle of nowhere Nova Scotia, Canada.
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I just learned about the closing and I've been crying for an hour and I'm not even much of a crier. I guess the memories at this park means more to me than i thought it did. As a Nova Scotian kid, going to this park was like going to six flags. I would barely sleep days before going and I would have a blast with friends and family the whole time. Its wooden infrastructure is what lead to its beauty, its character, and in the end its downfall. I really appreciate the tour in the final days before its closing
I went here when In 2013 the last time I been here in 2019 I'm crying cause this is my childhood
yeah what the heck, im sour !!!!!!!!
Right there with you dude.
I worked in Upper Clements Park the first three seasons, as Clyde the Conductor on the miniature train. Back in those days there was a whole troop of entertainers, I was just one of them. Those were great days, I used to do quarter speed Indiana Jones-inspired comedy stunts on and off and around the train, and it would stop so we could do little skits for the riders.
Where you saw a play area with those pirate ships used to be an amphitheater, with a concert every day as the Park's grand finale. The characters would sing, dance, do skits, and whatever else. In those days, the Park would be so crowded you couldn't move.
The entertainers would all get cut, of course, due to budgetary concerns. But with the entertainment and characters gone, so went a lot of the appeal of the Park. It was grossly underestimated how much an entertainment troop added. They can make rides more fun, add spontaneous concerts and comedy shows, and, bluntly, just breathed life into the Park.
I made it back with my family the last summer the Park was open, in 2019. It was nice to reunite with some of the people I'd entertain with, and nice to walk around the Park, but it was also very sad to see how the Park had grown stagnant. The train ran much slower than it used to, and it was disheartening to see how many areas of the Park had fallen into disrepair.
Regardless, thanks for this video, it's nice to take another walk through the Park again, even if it is just virtually.
Oh, no! It’s closed?! Tree Topper was always a bucket lister for me.
Another small, independent park gone. Another unique woodie gone.
I wasn’t aware that the park was closing up until a few weeks ago. As a Nova Scotian, me and my family went there every summer since I was about maybe 5 years old. We always packed lunches, sunscreen, everything and we would leave our house at around 8 AM and arrive by around 9:45. We would just spend the whole day there and leave by around 6:00 PM and be back home by around 7:45 and I would always fall asleep on the ride home. I just hope that one day, another theme park will open somewhere near me, but with all this COVID-19 stuff, probably nothing else recreational will be built within the next year and a half. RIP Upper Clements Park.. you’ve made hundreds of great memories. (1989-2020)❤️
Video's been out for 2 year's now and I still come back daily to watch it and just think of my childhood and going every year from when I was 6-19 and now it's all cleared out and completely gone super sad but I'll always have the memories of almost breaking my neck on the roller coaster and the countless flume rides
Fun Fact: The Sissiboo Sizzler Flume ride was formerly the Caribou Log Chute from Expo 86 in Vancouver. It was purchased for the park and moved across country in 1988 I believe.
Sad that it closed, spent many summer vacations visiting family in the area in the 90's with Upper Clements as the highlight. It's set to be demolished this year, hopefully they can save parts of it (like the flume ride) before it's destroyed.
I am still so sad this park closed. Upper clements park was one of my favourite places to go. Not far from home and so much fun. It breaks my heart to see it so brown over and vandalized. I hope one day it reopens. I didn’t get to go back before it shut down. I miss it. It held so much nostalgia for me. For many reasons. One of my grandfathers helped build the roller coaster. And it was the oldest wooden roller coaster still running if not the only wooden roller coaster left in North America as far as I’m aware of. I hadn’t gone on the roller coaster the last several times I went to the park but watching it even on the video I can still feel it like I was on it. The flume was one of my favourites! So many fun times and good memories at UCP. I wish I could list every favourite here and memories but there’s too many. It’s so strange how I can still feel like I am on the rides just by seeing them. We always made a day of it when we went. Lots of rides, and walking, and making memories. Wish it had never closed. They couldn’t afford to keep it open which is sad because it was such a fun park.
I went there a couple times every summer since I was a baby and on our class field trip and for Nova Scotians this ride is know for giving you whiplash it was only like a 30 minute drive and we loved it I’m so sad it’s closed
I remember the park when it first opened. Such a great park. Street performers, shows, petting zoo, baked goods……got to buy big chocolate chip cookies which we shared with the Pygmy goats. Sorry to see that it went down hill so far that they had to close it and tare it down. So sad. My kids loved it there. We went at least three or 4 times every summer as we lived at CFB Cornwallis.
I grew up In Greenwood but sadly never got up to going here, mainly because of the diatance with no car. I finally visited once this place closed, and seeing the park actually functioning is wild, as most the park was an absolute wreck or missing things to rides/houses. Wild times!
5:15 "If no one's in the station, apparently, they just keep runnin' it for the kids. That's crazy."
I laughed when I watched this part, because on my second ride in the late 90s, I remember this happening. The attendent asked, "Would you like to go again?" And of course, 6 year old me was absolutely thrilled to go again.
My first roller coaster ever. This video was so nostalgic to watch. I know the park was old and outdated in every way, but it really was beautiful.
Same almost everytime we were there to lmaoo
It has been quite the years since my mom, I, daughter and son were there. possibly 20 years ago. it was awesome to us. The roller coaster ur preferring to was really awesome. Our first time on one it had a clicky clack like a real steam engine. we're sorry it went down hill. but we have awesome memories of the whole park.
This brought tears to my eyes. Im sad it closed I had so much good memories there 😢
I heard that they wanted to develop a private school in the place of upper clement. Still it’s very sad to see a park closing.
It’s crazy that the first ever wooden coaster I’ve ridden was here, and the second wood coaster I go on ever is El Toro
Oh man, upper clements. I recall going there on a class trip in middle school, somewhere around 2008 or 2009. Sad to hear it closed, and I hope they at least move the flume ride to another park somewhere since it was originally built for Expo 86.
yo me too for a class trip it was awesome!!! in grade 5 i think
Another William Cobb coaster goes defunct. I believe there are only 6 or 7 left operating on the planet right now.
Is any of your footage of Treetopper available to use for another video on the closure of the park? Credit would be noted naturally!
We had season passes there every year and took our three children it was the best. Loved the daily closing show.At that time it was run by the provincial government. Sad day for the park.
This video is so sad, I live in new Brunswick and i considered it a home park because it was one of the only parks somewhat close to me, and hearing that it closed really broke my heart, i am trying a petition to get something close to here again even though i doubt that will work, thanks for making a video here btw,
also, i may make a video about this place sometime, would it be alright if i used the footage?
i went to this park many times, once even as a school trip and now its gone im so sad
they actually did add something but not crazy , they added a haunted house, i went as a kid and it wasnt there and then a couple years later it was being built and i think the next year it was done
Bring the flume ride to Atlantic Splash Adventure!
That haunted house used to be amazing the upstairs were truly haunting but they redid it due to plumbing issues and it sucked after that
There's a steam locomotive there, and a few boxcars. I'm 100% scared regarding what will happen to the locomotive and boxcars now.
They are now located in Middleton
We will miss UCP.
Is there any content from Prince Edward Island?
I have it…just never edited & posted it
Believe me it’s on my to do list. however the stuff older than a year is pretty low on the list
@@TheCoasterSpot ah, what spot(s) did you visit?
Is this true? I hope it doesn't close 😭😭😭
they used to have a much better haunted house until they closed it for reasons i dont know and replaced it with that crappy one
I heard while at the park that the building had collapsed
i was thare
Fucking shame...... Thanks Covid.
The closure was planned well before COVID
@@TheCoasterSpot Yes, I did read that afterwords... Damn shame.