Talk:Lake Dolores Waterpark

Opening comment
On January 21st, 2008 while driving from Los Vegas into Los Angeles, we saw this waterpark, there were large cranes at the waterpark and some of the larger rides had been dismantled. Any information? 76.232.50.106 (talk) 01:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Article Cleanup: August 2009
(Conversation in highlight moved from user talk page to article page for consistency and history)

Responding some more to LogicallyCreative's points above: agreed, that there are many articles that need cleanup. Today, we are talking about this one. I offer examples for cleanup, rather than making the major edits myself, as you appear to be the major contributor and would appreciate the opportunity to adjust the items yourself, I'm sure. Some further examples: These items are all from the opening two paragraphs, and later sections are similar in phrasing, full of WP:OR and opinion phrasing, and lack proper citations.SpikeJones (talk) 18:57, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * the opening sentence is awkward and doesn't clearly (simply) define what the article is about.
 * No need for zip code or area code information. Unless this is an article about a region, the weather info should go as well.
 * The term "fascinating geographically diverse area" is an opinion, and that phrase should be yanked. The description of a "sportsman's paradise" is also an opinion and specific point of view that is inappropriate for an unbiased article.
 * The sentence describing it as similar to the Black Hills needs a verifiable, unbiased, 3rdparty source to support that statement, otherwise that too would be deemed an opinion and should be removed. Information on the aquifer is misplaced in this article about the waterpark, as it should be placed in the region article instead.

It's obvious the primary author has absolutely no feel for what Wikipedia is all about. This article was interesting to read but it should be on a personal website, not here. His defensiveness just adds to the malaise, though I can appreciate why he feels that way, since he obviously put in a lot of work. But it's just all wrong. I'd work on it myself but I don't see a lot of independent sources of information about this park on the Web. Free-world (talk) 13:58, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Not withstanding your comments, it is noteable and its location on I-15 guarantees that millions of people a year see it. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:44, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Whew. I cleaned it up from top to bottom as part of a copyediting drive. It's in much better shape now. It still needs inline references. There is a little bit of material in the external links that could be converted to inline references, but not a whole lot. Herostratus (talk) 07:17, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Vegaswikian (talk) 07:33, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

2018 Activity
(moved from article on May 16, 2018)

April 20 2018 Update provided by the VP of OasisThemepark ( Lake Dolores) oasisthemepark.com

Hi Thank you to whomever created this WikiPedia page. You helped a great deal and more then you will ever know. Lake Dolores had a lot of financial issues last time it was open so we wanted to make sure something like that can never happen again. The way we set the funding up if anyone stole from us the thief would be stealing from the United States Government. When JP Morgan Chase kept the funding for this project it stole from the United States Government. We had to be able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt this was true using the banks own words & actions. It took informing every branch of the United States Government to do it. We never expected to have to inform Congress a bank let along 5 stole from the United States economy & used the United States Courts to do it. Oh well the banks & their lawyers were warned, not our fault they didn't listen.

The Library of Congress tells you how to do this. We are not lawyers and don't give legal advice. This doesn't mean we don't know the rules & laws of the United States and how to both follow and enforce them to protect ourselves. Renovating & reopening Lake Dolores has never been about the money we could make. This has been about honoring the original builders the Byers Family. We wanted to help people the same way they did. They helped people unconditionally & treated everyone like family. Unfortunately we never met them in person. The way we met them was through the stories people told us about the Byers treated them.

2018 Park Vandalism
This paragraph was recently added to this article by an anonymous user:

"In mid-October of 2018, the abandoned park was the victim of arson, and many of the remaining buildings—The Lazy River Cafe and Arcade, were burned to the ground. Security officers are now on hand and turn visitors away."

I saw a video of the park on fire posted to a private Facebook group, so I know this is true. However I can not find a single news article about the vandalism/arson. Is anyone able to find a source for this so we can add a citation to the article?

taestell (talk) 16:17, 26 October 2018 (UTC)


 * The insider briefly mentions the arson saying that it destroyed the Lazy River Cafe and arcade. I added the citation to the article and cleaned up the entry in question to match the source as I haven't seen anything about other buildings being destroyed or what month it took place in. Dobble stein talk 18:46, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Waterpark
Which year were the waterpark features added? Thanks, Maikel (talk) 13:52, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Paralyzed Employee
I see that the court case is mentioned where the employee won $4.4 million for his injurie, but that is all the information given. Does anyone else feel like that incident should be covered more in this article? Dobble stein talk 18:18, 8 November 2023 (UTC)