Beat the heat at SplashDown Beach water park in Fishkill news12.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news12.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
That not only left a summertime void for many residents in and beyond the Hudson Valley who visit SplashDown, it rendered hundreds of summertime jobs unneeded, and further damaged a local tourism industry already struggling to navigate the pandemic.
For the park’s ownership, it was a summer bereft of income and filled with expenses, as it tried to be ready with safety precautions in place if the state gave the green light to open. We went through an entire season with no revenue compounded with the virus, co-owner Steve Turk said. It was phenomenally hard. It was a scary part of our lives for sure.
SplashDown Beach opens Saturday; what to expect when visiting the park Heather Clark, Poughkeepsie Journal
John Retherford no longer lives in the Hudson Valley.
But, the now-northern New Jersey man said there are still reasons for him to visit the region often. One of those is SplashDown Beach Water Park.
“My 9-year-old son and 24-year-old autistic stepdaughter love going there and missed it last summer,” he said.
Water parks across the state, including the Fishkill site ranked sixth on TripAdvisor s list of the best water parks in the country, were not permitted to open last summer amid COVID-19 restrictions.
That not only left a summertime void for many residents in and beyond the Hudson Valley who visit SplashDown, it rendered hundreds of summertime jobs unneeded, and further damaged a local tourism industry already struggling to navigate the pandemic.