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Oakwood Leisure Ltd was owned and developed by the McNamara family until March 2008. The first stage, completed in 1987, cost approximately £1 million to build and invest in new rides, infrastructure and staff training. As a result, Oakwood is now classed as one of Wales' top tourist attractions and one of the Top Ten Theme Parks in the UK. Following an increase in visitor numbers after the arrival of Snake River Falls water coaster in 1994, management decided to pursue the
Oakwood Theme Park in Pembrokeshire opened in the late 1980s as a small family park with BMX bikes, a wooden fort, a 3D cinema and go karts. The Park now has five world class spectacular rides including a wooden roller coaster rated number three in the world.
development of the park into a more 'thrilling' theme park. On April 30, 1996, Megafobia opened. It cost £1.7 million to build, but allowed the park to reach 500,000 visitors in one season for the first time.. In1997 the Vertigo Sky Coaster was added. 1999 saw The Bounce Tower added. 2002 and Hydro (now Drenched) becomes the biggest ride to arrive since Megafobia six years earlier. In 2006, Speed Euro-Fighter was installed, at the time of opening it was the UK's only
rollercoaster to have a beyond vertical drop. In 2012, the park celebrated its 25th
birthday. “Over the past two years we have invested well in excess of £5m in developing new areas of the
park and providing visitors with a series of quality new attractions," according to Clare Stansfield, Oakwood's new Head of Marketing.
MASSIVE MAINTENANCE Those attractions include, Speed, which reaches 59 mph on a 600 metre long track and a height of 35 metres with two inversions (a 97° drop including a vertical loop, heartline roll); Megafobia, the traditional wooden roller coaster, reaches a speed of 48 mph on a 900 metre long track and a height of 25 metres ith a 55°drop. Other attractions include Bounce, a 50 metre tall launch tower; and SkyCoaster a free fall type ride.
Drenched is one of the biggest Giant Flumes in the world, currently the tallest water ride in Europe with a 36 metre drop and a speed of 88 mph, plus Vertigo, a 50 metre, 80 mph skycoaster. However, the rides require a massive amount of
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