Oakwood Theme Park
— — the wooden coaster in the green hills.
Not only on a wall.
“A family theme park in the Pembrokeshire countryside, between Narberth and Canaston Bridge, with the long ridge of the Preseli Hills on the horizon. Megafobia, the wooden coaster that opened in 1996, is still the headline ride and one of the most highly rated wooden coasters in Europe. Speed runs through a flume; Drenched, the hyper-tall splashdown, lands hard. The car park edges hedgerow and sheep field. The hills carry the sound a long way.
Oakwood Theme Park, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Oakwood Theme Park sits on roughly eighty acres of Pembrokeshire farmland near Canaston Bridge, between Narberth and Haverfordwest in west Wales. It opened in 1987 as a small family park and grew through the 1990s into the largest theme park in Wales, with around forty rides and attractions in current operation. It was acquired by the Spanish operator Aspro Parks in 2008 and has been run by them since. The site is reached off the A40 trunk road and is about a forty-minute drive from the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
Megafobia, the park's wooden out-and-back coaster, opened in 1996 to a design by John Pierce of Custom Coasters International, and has appeared near the top of European wooden-coaster rankings almost every year since. Speed: No Limits, a steel inverter that opened in 2006, includes a vertical drop and runs through a water flume. Drenched, a 165-foot splashdown tower opened in 2007, was for several years among the tallest of its type in Europe. The park's operating season runs from spring half-term through October, with shortened winter weekends around Christmas.
The setting is the quiet Pembrokeshire interior: low hedged fields, oak woodland in the valleys, and the southern flank of the Preseli Hills to the north — the same range from which the Stonehenge bluestones were quarried. Weather off the Irish Sea is changeable; afternoon showers come through fast and clear. Coaster sound carries across the farm valley on still summer evenings. The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, with its cliff path and tidal beaches, begins about thirty minutes west by road.