Oakwood Theme Park announced in March last year that it would not open for the 2025 season
Owen Hughes Business correspondent and Robert Harries Senior Reporter
14:54, 03 Jan 2026
The famous former rollercoaster(Image: John Myers)
It was once the largest and most popular theme park in Wales, but today it sits quietly.
The hustle and bustle of generations of thrill-seeking visitors is now a distant memory.
Oakwood Theme Park in Pembrokeshire announced in March last year that it would not open for the 2025 season and beyond, confirming a permanent closure which brought the curtain down on a roller-coaster ride of an attraction which lasted almost 40 years.
The Pembrokeshire park announced the closure with “much sadness” as the declining number of visitors have resulted in financial struggles.
Aspro Parks took over Oakwood in 2008 and invested millions of pounds into the theme park.
However, last spring it said that “unrelenting economic challenges” from “ride parts to electricity costs, food and beverage inflation, increases in the National Living Wage and changes to national insurance thresholds” resulted in a substantial increase in costs.
(Image: John Myers)(Image: John Myers)
Despite hopes that the park would reopen, it has sat closed and empty for the last 10 months, with rides having been dismantled and removed from the site.
Today, what was once one of the UK’s best visitor attractions lies dormant and eerily quiet.
One person said: “Sad to see sights like this, as like waving goodbye to Porthcawl funfair, childhood memories waiting to be ripped apart by bulldozers.”
(Image: John Myers)
Another said: “Awful sight to see, I had great times there and got great memories.
“Remember going on Vertigo, now that was a moment I will never forget.
“Thank You Oakwood for the great times and great memories.”
(Image: John Myers)
One person commented: “Shame to see it like this but it has so much potential to make a comeback.”