Northland’s Adrenaline Adventure Park introduces hydroslides from former Waiwera Thermal Resort

Nearly six years after Waiwera Thermal Resort ceased operations, the attraction’s hydroslides (waterslides) are being reintroduced at the Adrenaline Adventure Park at Lake Edwin in Ruatangata West.

Having acquired the hydroslides from the closed resort entrepreneurial brothers Cody and Klay Rouse, the operators of the Adrenaline Adventure Park, are set to open the first of the relocated slides as of this Saturday, 2nd November.

The slide is made from pieces from all four the brothers acquired last year before the resort was completely demolished.

Explaining the move, Cody Rouse told the New Zealand Herald “the Waiwera slides have a history and a lot of people want to go back to their childhood and whatnot.

“We have mixed and swapped some parts around, there were just a few pieces that were broken or missing so we kind of mixed and matched.”

The brothers had initially hoped to have the slides at the main hub of their attraction, which features a two-tower cable wakeboarding experience and New Zealand’s largest inflatable water park.

However, they eventually settled on a hillside on the south side of the lake as their new ‘hydroslide hub’.

A pump will send 80 litres of water a minute from Lake Edwin and down the slide this Saturday as part of a special pass that will include hydroslide entry.

The pair and their team are still working on the other three slides - and one of them may not have even been used before.

While the hydroslides are no doubt the most exciting part of their new summer offerings, the pair are also excited about a brand new 180-metre-long inflatable obstacle course that is due to arrive in the coming weeks.

Looking forward to this, Cody Rouse added “we will have both courses running for a little while which may make it the biggest course in the world - or very close to the largest.”

The pair have also announced they plan to open another inflatable water park in Mangawhai.

Images: The Adrenaline Adventure Park at Lake Edwin (top) and the attraction's recycled hydroslide from the former Waiwera Thermal Resort (below).