Oakwood Theme Park in Wales Has Been Abandoned for Over a Year and Nobody Knows What Happens Next

Drone footage has been doing the rounds showing Oakwood Theme Park in Pembrokeshire sitting completely silent, with roller coasters and walkways slowly being swallowed up by overgrown vegetation. It is a pretty sad sight if you ever went there as a kid.

Oakwood opened in April 1987 as a fairly modest leisure park with a narrow gauge railway, go-karts, water slides and a bobsleigh. By the 1990s it had grown massively, adding Megafobia, a wooden roller coaster that cost around £1.7 million to build and became the park's signature ride. At its peak it was pulling visitors from all over the UK and was considered Wales' biggest theme park.

The closure came suddenly in March 2025. The owners, Spanish company Aspro Parks, cited unrelenting economic challenges and said they could no longer see a sustainable way forward. Aspro has lots of other parks across Europe, so Oakwood was clearly not the priority when things got difficult.

Some of the rides have already been relocated. Speed: No Limits, once the steepest coaster in the UK, was sold to a park in France. Drenched, Treetops, the Pirate Ship and Snake River Falls have all found new homes too. Others are still standing on site, slowly rusting.

Over a year on, the site still has no confirmed future. The local county councillor for the area has said there have been no public plans announced and that, ideally, the remaining structures should be removed because they are not a great sight in an otherwise beautiful part of Wales. Some people think the land could eventually be absorbed into Bluestone National Park Resort nearby, but nothing has been confirmed.

It is a reminder that theme parks are not guaranteed forever. Visitor numbers across the industry have been under pressure and Oakwood is probably not the last park we will see close. Hopefully not, though. RIP Megafobia. You were one of the great ones.