1,034 Comments for Rocky Point Amusement Park

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did someone burn it down are people still alive where are the people today
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I remember the story of the kid standing up on the drop of the Flume and falling out...and i always heard rumors of someone falling out of the corkscrew...were there any other accidents at the park?
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Does anyone remember the "Wall of Gum" on the Haunted House exterior? It seemed everyone stuck their gum on one section while waiting in line ...
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Are you refering to the Cyclone? What i would love to see are pictures of the Kiddie Coaster that they tore down to make room for the Cyclone....
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Jim M Jr-I don't know if you saw any of my posts conversing w/ John Black, but I've got several questions regarding Halloweenland.
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In my obsessive exstensive research for the Rocky Point comic book I'm working on-I searched the Providence Library's newspaper records. I do a recall a story about a worker being killed, and if I remember correctly, it was the skyliner. I believe it was in the late fifties-to mid sixties...

John Black deserves the Rocky Point knowledge gold medal-Although that Bill guy knows his stuff too.

By the way-John-what do you think will happen to some of these spare rides supposedly hidden at the park?
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If that were the case they would have done something to this ride....like dismantle it??? The state would have stepped in and done something about that. In the Pennsylvania incident, the ride was dismantled and sold for scrap. If this happened at Rocky Point, why was it up and running till the park closed???

In all my years of living in Rhode Island while Rocky Point was open (lived there for 27 years) I NEVER heard of a story like that. I heard of the people getting flung off the Yo Yo and the person almost taking a header off the corkscrew, but that was about it
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Hell ya id love to go through this place.
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I'd like to say that I enjoyed these pics, but it is sad. I visited RI back in 1991 or so on a 4H exchange trip. The family I stayed with took me to Rocky Point and it is an awesome memory. I wish I had picks from the park when it was alive.
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DOES ANYONE KNOW THE NAME OF THE BIG WOODEN COASTER THERE IN THE90'S...IT WAS BIG AND WHITE AND HAD SOME GREAT TURNS. IW AS SO YOUNG BUT I REMEMBER HOW GREAT IT WAS...IS IT SOMEWHERE ELSE NOW?
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I respectfully disagree. While I cannot say whether or not a similar incident occurred in PA I do stand by my previously posted story.
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Mr. Hyde's nasty fall was at Six Flags/Geauga Lake, in Aurora, Ohio.It was for sale last year. I don't know if it sold or not, but I believe they have removed it, to make room for something else.
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it looks cheery yet menacing in a way
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You are right doc, this was the sky liner and the story that John Black is talking about happened at an amusment park in Pennsylvania NOT Rhode Island. The only time people got hurt on this ride is when they went to jump for the car and they would fall off the side. I saw it happen once and a man broke his leg. The medical people were trying to help him and he kept screaming "DONT TAKE MY PANTS OFF THERE ARE WOMEN AND CHILDREN AROUND!"

To this day I can still smell the oil from these wheels because they were going so quickly that it would burn the oil up.
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Some of us loved Rocky Point and we like to share our feelings about it and how much we miss it.