Any Good Water Parks in New Mexico? (Albuquerque, Carlsbad: school, move to)

[jch41878]

Originally Posted by Chaparral

Just heard about an indoor water park project that is in progress at the old Four Seasons/Radisson hotel property at I-40 & Carlisle. Looks interesting, but it doesn't sound like it will be aimed at the kiddie demographic. Estimated admission price of $28. Here's a link from the Trib...

Hotel plans to add water park offering indoor surfing, slides : Local : Albuquerque Tribune

Chap

Well it's March of 2008 and all I see in google concerning this plan is the same article you posted. (And a couple other articles from the same time period)

[abqsunport]

Originally Posted by jch41878

We do have four seasons but two of them (spring and fall) are each about 1-2 weeks long. If you want great schools and four (real) seasons you should move to New England.

I really have to disagree here. Albuquerque has four distinguished seasons, and they are all last a reasonable time. Summer: 4Months Fall: 3 Months, winter: 2 Months Spring: 3 Months

[ABQConvict]

This is the definitive list of Albuquerque's seasons so take note!

Green summer: 7 months

Chile Roast: 2 weeks

Cold summer: 4 months

Windy: 2 weeks

:-)

ABQConvict

[lexusryder]

I think Martin Chavez (mayor) needs to add more parks and recs entertainment stuff like a waterpark or amusement park something nice and big not little rinky dink stuff. He is too busy with his other little pet projects earth hour and crap! He needs to get with the program maybe if there where things for teens and adults to do they would stay out of trouble because they would have something to do instead of going cruising or sitting around drinking.Really what else is there to do? Cliffs ok yeah right, Hinkle LOL…..

[yukon]

Windy is more like 4 weeks.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by yukon

Windy is more like 4 weeks.

more like a couple of months...

[lisdol]

Anyone know if that Radisson Water Park Hotel is done yet? We drove by it last night getting on the freeway at Carlisle and I mentioned I'd like to take a mini vacation there when it gets finished.

As far as I know, the next closest water park is that one between Cruces and El Paso, right? Hmm, maybe I should read back through the thread. Bet someone talked about it.

[Zoidberg]

There's also the city of Santa Rosa with its lakes (and the surplus "The Beach" equipment). Not sure if they set that stuff up or kept it off the market intentionally.

Carlsbad also has some excellent water play in the Pecos River.

[catman]

Ecologically speaking, a water park in Albuquerque seems like a bad idea. With water at a premium in NM in general, wouldn't a water park be a profligate waste? Imagine the evaporation every day of all that water. I know water parks are fun, but the desert doesn't seem like a very good place for one.

Don't mean to be a killjoy. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned before.

Speaking of England, with the big fight over Sharia law being introduced there, I wouldn't want to be there.

[Zoidberg]

Albuquerque's new water park will be indoor. Hardly any concern there in terms of evaporation.

With regard to outdoor water parks, I'll stack up a water park against a golf course of equivalent size any day of the week, both in terms of total evaporative losses and in terms of human enjoyment per gallon evaporated.