Irvine Water Park Wild Rivers

Wild rivers site plan.

Irvine water park wild rivers. Since the closure there have been plans to recreate wild rivers in irvine on or near the orange county great park which have been under development. The original wild rivers ended its 25 year run in 2011 when the irvine company built apartments on the property that had been leased to the water park. Rieder said the new wild rivers site design will include some aspects of the old park but mainly will become a new improved version of the irvine based water park. Wild rivers will build a new water park with waterslides an uphill water coaster water play structures for children a wave pool a lazy river and wild rivers popular congo river rapids.

Irvine city council approved an exclusive negotiating agreement with wild rivers to build and operate a water park in the southeastern area of the park in june 2017. In the last council meeting the mayor announced that wild rivers and the city have agreed on the economic terms of a ground lease. The new wild rivers water park will be located on 20 acres in the heart of the great park at the intersection of skyhawk and great park blvd. The conceptual park design for a new wild rivers waterpark proposed in irvine.

The new design will be a total of 26 acres an almost 50 increase from the original park s 14 acres and will include an uphill water coaster a longer lazy river a bigger wave pool water play structures the original wild rivers popular congo river rapids a reimagined version of. The developer said the lazy river feature would be longer than the one in the previous park which closed in 2011. Wild rivers was a water park in irvine california united states it opened in july 1986 on the site of the former lion country safari following the expiration of its lease with the irvine company it closed permanently on september 25 2011. Where we found success in wild rivers 1 0 was that we were able to segregate the bigger kids from the little kids by putting all the little kid attractions on what we called the island in between the lazy river he said.

The water park will be a part of the 94 hectare cultural terrace which is currently. An update on wild rivers from december stated that things are continuing to move forward. Things are continuing to move forward. The new site in the orange county great.