By: Diane Benjamin
I didn’t go there on purpose, I just happen to be in the area. I expected it to be busy since it was HOT yesterday, it was busy!
I don’t think people should be worried about the area where it is located. The park is beautiful and well maintained. Don’t take this as agreement with the City of Bloomington for a $13.8 million facility that spends most of the year closed, but it is very nice. Carl’s Ice Cream probably sees an increase in traffic but economic development spurred by building it isn’t apparent.
The only section that wasn’t busy was the free splash pad. The rest of it was busy but didn’t appear to be too packed for more people:
The Lazy River is very lazy. I saw some pile ups of people floating along, but nothing serious. Maybe too many people started the route at the same time.
I looked last week on the City website for the below and couldn’t find it. Maybe they don’t want you to know. $5 doesn’t get you in for all day – just from 4:00 – 7:00 for 3 Fridays. If you want a more affordable option to try out the water, this might be it.
me thinks they should have the daily admission @ $10 instead of $12 for adults……
How does $13.8 million compare to the amount the city has budgeted for street resurfacing for 2024?
$3.8 million more
Roads are open year around too!
Thanks for the replies! I’m guessing the reason roads are low priority with Marxists is because they think crappy roads will encourage us to give up our vehicles and fill up their big empty buses. I wonder how many more miles of streets could be resurfaced for $13.8 million?
O’Neil was built to compete with Normal’s Fairview water park. Any talk about economic development was just window covering to hide the spite Koos and Renner had for each other’s cities.
Why do taxpayers have to pay to go into a pool that they have already paid for?
We have gone a couple of times. I have zero complaints. Well staffed and maintained. There was some issue one time when we were there, young male life guard ran from the lifeguard shack to the where the water slide is to help. He was in a dead run all the way around the place. I was impressed. He was doing his job. He could not have been more than 18. If I did complain it would be about unsupervised kids, but that is not the city’s problem.
The slide is huge!
Holiday Pool and O’Neil have different passes? That’s crazy. Normal has a swimming pass and it’s good at both parks (Anderson/Fairview). DJ poses and excellent question. Why do taxpayers pay for things like O’Neil, BCPA, the Coliseum, Parking, and Roads (think gas tax) multiple times? What are they doing with our money?
Bloomington makes everything more difficult than it needs to be