Abandoned Amusement Park, Lithuania

An Abandoned Amusement Park in Lithuania, where the joyful laughter of children is now a distant memory. When it first opened in the 1980s, this park immediately became a regional favourite. The amusement park wasn’t perfect, unfortunately. The park closed in the early 2010s after a series of accidents and continued health and safety concerns.

During my trip to the Baltics in the winter of 2019, I stopped at an abandoned amusement park. Before my visit, the park had already been largely dismantled, with several of the best rides already removed. There are currently a skatepark and a mountain bike trail in that spot. Oddly, the roller coaster has been kept intact!

Main attraction – Jet 2 Rollercoaster

Added in the 1980s, the Jet 2 rollercoaster was once the park’s signature ride. This steel roller coaster stands at a modest height of 13.4 metres. The roughly 585-meter-long roller coaster occupies a surprisingly small space. It is a “spiral electric lift” rollercoaster; the cars are propelled by electric rails up the steepest part of the rollercoaster’s spiral track, and then they coast down the rest of the track. There is a single car, with six seats arranged inline. The ride had a capacity to thrill 900 riders per hour.

Close second – Indoor caterpillar carousel

Behind the rollercoaster there is a large covered ride. It resembles a waltzer. Apparently it is a type are carousel called a caterpillar. The cars are all linked and follow each other round and round, as they follow the undulating ride path.

And finally – Is that a ride? Or torture equipment?

The third remaining ride, I am at a loss to decipher. It looks like some form of cage that you would lock someone in that you don’t like, then spin them around and lift them up into the air. The ride was partially demolished when I visted, so perhaps some key pieces are missing that would make it look less terrifying!

Rides already demolished before my visit

Very sadly, I visited a few months after the demolition started and the Ferris Wheel was gone. Some of the cars still lay nearby to the rollercoaster, awkwardly in my shot and reminding me what I had missed. Additionally the dodgems, rocket ride and big swing carousel had also been scrapped.