Weirs Water Slide?
 

Has anyone heard if the volcano water slide at Weirs Beach will be open this year? The grandkids sure do love it!

...I don't know the answer, but, I find it hard to believe nobody else on this site has the 411..?.!.!...c'mon people...:laugh:...

I don't know the answer either. I am sure it is fun for the kiddies, but it is really ugly.

not only ugly
 

not only ugly...but a plane crashed into the volcano. What was plane doing flying that low to begin with?

If they don;t you could always buy the other one up the street and own your own.:D

Probably avoiding those pesky parachuters.:laugh:

Must have been another air traffic controller sleeping incident, this time at Laconia Municipal Airport:D

Just imagine adding skydiving to the mix???????

Ask the bank
 

I believe the bank still owns the volcano water slide property. They may rent it to the former owners for the season as they did last year.

It may be closed during the 9 motorcycle show days so they can rent out as much space as possible to the bike crowd vendors.

From WMUR
 

Here is the story on who owns the slide.....

LACONIA, N.H. -- A water slide that is one of the last remaining attractions near New Hampshire's Weirs Beach on Lake Winnipesaukee has been auctioned off.

The Weirs Beach Water Slide, complete with faux volcano and an 18-hole miniature golf course, was sold Friday for $580,000. The city of Laconia had assessed the property at $627,600.

The buyer is a 30-year-old real estate investor from Bedford who said he has been summering in the Weirs Beach area since he was a child.

The investor said the immediate plan is to keep the water slide closed, and he doesn't believe that the property was being used properly, considering its location and traffic. He said he hopes to find someone interested in leasing the property.

The park was owned by Lawrence Baldi III. The Citizen reported that interested parties included Baldi's wife, who recently became owner of the former Weirs Beach Smoke House Restaurant, Lounge & Resort, across the street from the park.

Baldi said she would like to keep the park in her family, but it was unclear if she was at the auction. Just a handful of people placed bids, and the property was sold in about five minutes.

Baldi told the newspaper that the property was being sold as a bank foreclosure, the result of Lawrence Baldi's investment losses in a Meredith firm that suddenly closed last month.

What ever happened to the Surf Coaster water slide location?

I heard it was going to be another location for "Monkey Trunks". Not sure about that but it would look better than that middle school project of a volcano!:laugh:

Money Trunks
 

Monkey Trunks is going up over at Funspot where the old Story Land used to be.

http://www.monkeytrunks.com/

and

http://www.funspotnh.com/pc-monkeytrunks.htm

It says on the sign that they're opening May 2011 but when we drive by there it looks like they haven't even started construction. I did notice last weekend that they had a lot of the lumber delivered so I'm guessing it doesn't take long to construct?

Look forward to trying it out though!

Also, the Daytona Fun Park just put in a Sky Trail that looks kind of neat for kids

http://www.logs-of-fun.com/dfp-index.shtml#Sky%20Trail

does anyone have any new info on this. Our family goes to this area in late summer and go to the water slides some years if we have a hot day. I am just curious if anyone knows if it will be open this summer.

From the previous posts, it sounds as though it's closed. :(

Water Slides
 

While the Water Slide in the Weirs is closed there is Water Country over in Portsmouth which is @ 30-45 minutes away by car. As for Monkey Trunks at Funspot, Gunstock just opened a rope course with Aerial TreeTops, which has 5 distinct different courses of different levels, if you got through 5 courses it will take @ 3 hours, they are in the process of completing the zip lines down from the Summit to across the pond and these are due to be completed before 7/4/11.

As for the Weirs water slide, I think the pilot of the plane was blinded by the smoke from the volcano :)

the property was sold 2 winters ago and it was open last summer as far as I know. I am wondering if they were going to open it up again this summer.

RLW thanks for the welcome. I am thinking of the one right next to the entrance to weirs beach right by the big weirs beach sign with the arrow on it.

It's open!!! I saw some kids there today! Hooray!

Is the water slide still open for business?

Yup....it's open. even open on weekend nights.

Trimming some vegetation would be a vast visual improvement, Mr Bank!

Coldwell Banker

Hasn't that been for sale for years now? This is the one on the corner of white oaks road?? If so that place needs some attention!