Wales' Largest Theme Park Shuts Down: Oakwood Closes After 38 Years

Oakwood Theme Park in Wales has announced it’s permanently closing and not opening for the 2025 season. The owner and operator of Oakwood Theme Park, Aspro Parks, cited financial challenges. The website announcement says all options were explored to avoid closing the park.

“In the entire history of Aspro we have never closed any park or attraction. We, and our dedicated team of staff has strived to overcome numerous challenges to continue to bring joy to families and visitors across the region and country. Unfortunately, we could no longer see a sustainable way forward and will seek to improve our other parks using the assets and where possible team elsewhere”. – Aspro Parks officialstatement

The park has operated for nearly 40 years, starting as a small family park with attractions like a bobsleigh toboggan run ride, a 3D cinema, go-karts, a train dark ride, and a narrow gauge railway. Some of the park’s notable attractions are the Megafobia wooden roller coaster (Custom Coasters International), the Speed: No Limits steel coaster (Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter), the Skull Country log flume (Big Country Motioneering), and the Main Line Train narrow gauge railway.