Mt. Tom Mountain Park - Holyoke, MA, USA - July 2008-ARCHIVED

[Trousercowboy]

Mount Tom used to be home to an amusement park and a ski resort with a water park for the summer months. Sadly all the cool rollercoasters etc. have been torn down or enjoyed by New England's pyromaniac community. The only signs of the fun times had at the park is a soggy and overgrown krazy golf course (and I use the 'K' to emphasise just how crazy golf can get in the right hands)

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One of the holes...oooo exciting!

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A strange mix of 1970's mouldy astro turf and moss, squelchy and oddly satisfying to walk on

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Nature is taking it all back...

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Further up the mountain was the ski runs and demolished water slides

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The wave pool with ski run in the background

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All that remained of the slides were the concrete support posts sticking out of the ground

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view from the launch pad - in the distance the ski chalet, unfortunately it was tightly sealed

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in the pump house...

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And a finally a wooden owl to warn off real owls from landing on some electrical hardware that was still buzzing away

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Kind of dull I know but c'mon people I'm giving you Krazy Golf here...Krazy Golf - it's golf made Krazy!