http://www.news-register.net/page/content....67.html?nav=515

I can't believe this is moving forward.

More hereWTRF

is Ohio county where this park is going to be. is it near Lake ERIE?

The two articles conflict...with the second saying that the final permit piece should be obtained in mid-March. I will believe this project is actually real the day the gates open to the paying public, and not a minute before. Even then, I won't believe it a smashing success until the park shows a profit for a sustained period. There is many a rock in the road before the final destination here, folks.

is Ohio county where this park is going to be. is it near Lake ERIE?

No, it is much closer to Kennywood than to Lake Erie. I seriously wonder what (or even if) these people are thinking.

Terpy, I think you mean many a stream in the road. Well atleast one I know of...

The two articles conflict...with the second saying that the final permit piece should be obtained in mid-March. I will believe this project is actually real the day the gates open to the paying public, and not a minute before. Even then, I won't believe it a smashing success until the park shows a profit for a sustained period. There is many a rock in the road before the final destination here, folks.

So, it's mid-March (just a bit later than that, actually), and:

Final Permit Finalized for Theme Park:

http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewsto...p;storyid=55041

I don't know where the money was coming from for this park. If they are going to the banks for it I can see that it's a good time to give the ok to build.

Wild Escape Owner to talk business today.

WTRF

I can see it now how bad the traffic is going to be if they build the park. There are cars backed up out to I70 on the weekends now and the park isn't there yet. I don't know why so many go nuts over Cabela's. I haven't seen anything in there I couldn't get for less at any other place.

4,000,000 people a year to a theme park in Wheeling?

Why do I think this park is between a hard rock and a soft spot in the head?

State Journal

The developer of the Wild Escape Park at The Highlands wants to remind Ohio Valley residents that "an elephant doesn't move as fast as a jaguar

WTOV

Our indoor park -- actually for the dry rides -- you could fit the Empire State Building in," Minard said.

Minard said now the question isn't if the project is going to happen, but when. Once the earthwork is complete, it will take about one more year to get the park open to the public.

I was over by the Wild Escape Theme Park friday and there is still no construction going on. I would have thought there would be some work started but it's still the way it was a year ago.

This may be why:

...In other matters, mitigation work on Middle Wheeling Creek is expected to be completed in June, Stewart said. The mitigation must be completed before earthwork related to a planned Wild Escape theme park begins.

David Sims, authority member and Ohio County commissioner, said he believes Wild Escape President Steve Minard currently is working on engineering plans related to the park. All the necessary federal and state permits are in place to allow the project to go forward.

Minard said previously that it would be "several months" before any work would begin. Minard is expected to bid out and pay for the earthwork, which will involve filling in a portion of Storch's Run.

Minard could not be reached Tuesday evening for additional comment.

http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/conte.../id/523682.html

Is this park a indoor amusement park? I want to see some renderings.

No, it is not. It is supposedly going to be West Virginia's largest amusement park (which means only that it will be bigger than Camden Park). Renderings? HA HA.

Will it have a sewage plant about 100yrds away? Or a stinky river next to it? I know it will not have some of the best looking coaster trains, because Camden is hard to beat in that category.

(Monroe, who thinks Camden is a fun park, just has problems breathing in the hot summer time that close to a sewage plant.)

It probably won't have the nation's best or second-best Spider (Tie between Camden and Holiday World?), wonderful Pronto Pups, a round-up that makes even many seasoned riders ill, a Whip or a kiddie NAD coaster, either...not a rare Pretzel dark ride...

At an estimated cost of $200 mil. I would think that they are thinking of building some thing with an old style park feel like Camden. I would hope that they would find some designs of rides and coasters of the past and replicate them. (I know, replicas never live up to the real thing but it would be a great place to start.) Besides, how hard is it to make a really good Pronto Pup any ways.......oh wait, never mind.

I have had a "Pronto Pup" at Cedar Point.

I think I have said too much already...

I remember seeing, back when news first got out of this supposed park, some renderings. However, they were also ones the same company had used for a park they were going to build somewhere else.

Let me throw this out there: I think this is a terrible idea.

Here is a link to the planned amusement park. http://www.the-highlands.com/wild-escape-amusement-park.html

Just be aware, as tubaman has stated, the renderings were used previously for a planned park out west by the same developer...a park that never materialized...

And now, what?

http://thehighlandsgazette.blogspot.com/2010/11/wild-escape-theme-park-good-news.html

Still sounds like a mess to me. I don't see this park ever breaking ground. How long have we been talking about it and still not one shovel full of dirt has been moved.

This is like making ships with perishable goods wait to come into the harbor. If they can make them wait long enough there will be nothing to come in with.There was dirt moved years ago but nothing has happened since. I posted pictures of the site on here before. Everything there has come to a stand still. There is other buildings that was built that sit empty there.

And?

I guess this park was "interpreted to failure?"