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- THE PARK CLOSED AT THE EN OF THE 2024 SEASON AND NEVER REOPENED -

Park News - (9/7/2025) While there was a proposal from a group to try and purchase the closed Oakwood theme park from owners, Aspro, the group has now announced that Aspro Parks had turned them down, stating that they are “not looking to make any decisions on the park at this time.”
   So… while they don’t want to reopen or save the park themselves, they are also not yet willing to sell off the property to anyone willing to take on that task as well, which makes it sounds like they have shuttered Oakwood possibly with other intentions for the property going forward.
    While everyone will have to wait and see what eventually happens, it just seems clear that the site will no longer be used as a theme park for the foreseeable future.

 
    (5/18/2025) I’m not sure how serious of an effort this is, but after it was announced earlier this year that the Oakwood theme park in the UK was closing for good, it seems a local resident of the area claims that they are part of an effort working to save the park. While theft don’t want to leak details or financials yet, they do say that they have submitted their proposal to Oakwood’s current owners, Aspro Parks, but have yet to hear anything back.
    Anyone know more? I know previously that a ride or two was already in the process of removal when the closure was announced, such as the park’s “Drenched” super-flume from Intamin, but I haven’t heard if any more rides or attractions have been removed in the meantime.
 
    (3/6/2025) An article on Yahoo News paints a poor picture about the fate of Oakwood park now that Aspro Parks has announced that they’ve closed it. This includes a lot of former guest comments and feedback that unfortunately could be summed up with the overall feeling that many were surprised it took this long for it to go under.
    While Spain’s Aspro Parks operates a number of attractions around the Europe market and claims that they’ve never had to shut a major park down before, the chain is known more for their Waterparks, Botanical parks as well as Zoos and Aquariums, with only a very small handful of theme parks listed including Oakwood and the two Walygator parks.
    Guest feedback about the closure included many comments about the park overcharging for the few attractions it offered and a general lack of investment in new attractions over the years. So honestly, many potential guests simply went elsewhere with their leisure time from the sound of things, which is really unfortunately for fans of Megafobia as it sounded as if Oakwood had really turned that ride around in 2023.
   In the end… “Too little, too late…” as they say. And unfortunately, as we’re starting to see with a few other small park closures over the past couple years, the overall impact from the years of the pandemic is now catching up with them as insurmountable debts are coming due. While I’ve never personally been to Oakwood myself, so I can’t comment on the state of the park myself, I have always said that if a park isn’t always building something, then they may be dying.

 
    (3/4/2025) Consider me shocked… but Oakwood theme park in the UK is no more. At least not for 2025 at least. In an official statement posted to the park’s blog page they announced “the immediate closure of Oakwood Theme Park and confirm the park will not open for the 2025 season.”
    You can read rest of the official statement by following the link, but the gist is that the park’s owner, Aspro Parks, made this difficult choice due to “the current business environment”. They rescued the park when it was a risk of a closure the last time in 2008, investing over £25 million in the process, including the highly praised upgrade of the park’s Megafobia wooden coaster in 2023. Despite it all they site declining attendance and increased expenses in about every field (electricity, food and beverage, insurance, wages, etc…) and in the end they have determined that further investments and even the overall cost of operating the park is no longer sustainable.
    This would explain the crews that were spotted taking down the park’s mega flume last week, as I suspect that it and anything else of value will be put up for sale.