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Amesbury Sports Park
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Category: Amusement Parks [Edit]
12 S Hunt RdAmesbury, MA 01913
(978) 388-5788
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- Hours:
Sat-Sun. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
8 reviews for Amesbury Sports Park
Amesbury Sports Park is home to OGO! Otherwise known as the Outdoor Gravity Orb this activity is by far one of the most fun activities I have partaken in this summer. What is OGO you ask? It is basically, an oversized hamster ball for humans! Clear plastic and over 10 feet tall, these balls propel down the gentle slopes of Amesbury Sports Park carrying 1 - 3 occupants at a times.
Two options:
#1 Get Strapped in! - In this version, you are harnessed into one of these orbs and go head over heels, barrel rolling down the hill. Having a history of vertigo, I cheered on as my friends tried out this option. Yes they were dizzy. . . YES they had fun!
#2 Water Orb! - In this version, you and up to 2 other friends (depending on weight distribution) sit inside an orb that is filled with freezing cold hose water. The inner chamber is zipped closed and off you go down the hill spinning around, rolling on top of each other, all the while on spin cycle.
Laughter and joy echoes off these plastic walls. Just when you think your nearing the end of the hill. . . you realize you've only made it halfway down! What a rush!
The conveyor belt up the hill is painfully slow when bursting with excitement to roll back down the slope. No walking up, must have shoes on. Your belongings are brought to the bottom of the hill for you to collect after the ride down. Keep in mind! Don't bring anything expensive up the hill with you. Another option is the summer tubing here. Equally as fun! Go down in a tube yourself or attach to your your friends! Reach speeds up to 40 mph! Just be careful and keep your legs up in the air. The plastic lining the tracks could give you and awful open abrasion at speeds like this!
My suggestion. . . go around 5 - 6 pm shortly before the park closes. There was no one here!!! No lines, minimal wait. I went down the hill 3 - 4 times in the OGO alone. Not to mention the handful of times I tubed down. I had a blast! Can't wait to come back here sometime!
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Sphering/zorbing/ogoing = BEST WATER RIDE, EVAAAR. Imagine being in a huge hamster ball on the spin cycle. Gives a whole new meaning to the term "bubble boy."
It involves climbing inside a 12' in diameter plastic ball with a hollow center filled with water and getting rolled down a hill (hydrozorbing). You end up sliding around and bouncing off the walls as the water splays everywhere. Incredible! And this is supposedly one of only three places in the entire world to do it!
The park also offers waterless tubing in the summer, and snow tubing in the winter. There's a soccer field for local games too. No real grass though; they must be single-handedly supporting the astroturf economy.
The facilities are thrown-together, poorly organized and ridiculously inefficient. The staff is mainly comprised of friendly, fun high school boys and they follow their tasks well, but they seriously need to streamline operations. We ended up waiting almost an hour for our first go.
They would benefit greatly from figuring our a new route to get the balls up. (Currently they tow it up circuitously with an ATV. Our group determined a pulley or conveyor system would be most effective.) There's also no locker room for changing or showering so come prepared.
Folks that don't want to partake can head to the restaurant/bar. I was impressed to see some pretty exotic beers, and the view of the grounds is solid from the upstairs windows.
At $10-15 bucks a run, go indulge the silly!
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I went here this weekend, first time this year. They've added summer tubing, which looks to be like giant slip-n-slides. I cannot wait go back this summer!
They've got a ton of snow, much more than I've ever seen them have. They've replaced their pully system with a conveyor belt that pulls you up the hill. The food and drink at the pub are great as usual. $2 beers? Can't go wrong.
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2/10/2009
GREAT place to bring a group for snowtubing!! I've been going here for a few years now for at least… Read more »
Zonkers!! I'm going bonkers for Zorbing.
Zig-Zagging down those grassy knolls.
Zipping around all them tubing lanes.
Zoom Zoom coming around the bend.
Zero down time everyone! Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Ziplock us into the bubble. Hold on tight in the middle.
Zowie! Watch out for them there Zipper burns!
Zany ideas aplenty.
Zorbing just one of many.
Zealful pastime for sure, whether wet, dry, singled, doubled up or tripled.
Zesty beers upstairs; foreign, domestic, simply fantastic!
Zonkers! I'm totally bonkers for Zorbing!
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Reunite with the lazy days of childhood. Wake up early. Nag your roommates (or your friends...whoever has the wheels) to get their lazy selves out of bed, because today is the day you're going to Amesbury Sports Park.
Put on your swimsuit and jump up and down, grab a towel and wrap it 'round, go barefoot for pete's sake! (except not on the conveyor belt...house rules, ya know.) This is a time for being silly, not caring if you hair is plastered down your face because your bouncing down a ginormous hill inside a larger-than-life hampster ball, sloshing around and giggling to your heart's content, without a care in the world.
But I warn you. Do not take off our rose-colored kids spectacles. You know, the kind yo wore when you went to your favorite amusement park as a kid and thought forever in your mind that it was the greatest place on earth, only to return as an adult and wonder how it got so run-down and worn around the edges. Amesbury is not Disneyland. And I am sure that many of the components of the activities are held together by duct tape. They have some logistical work to do.
But once your inside that h2o-filled ball, flying downhill and getting water all up in your nose, all that fades away and is overtaken by pure, unadulterated fun.
Go. Be a total five year old. And whatever you do, don't hold your breath waiting in line. Grab a snickers. It might be a while.
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Good Zorb almighty! Getting inside a water-filled plastic golf ball that's inside a larger plastic golf ball and rolling down a hill is more fun than an adult (or two or three at a time) should be able to have! Oh, but you can! That is, if you make it past the surly manager who inexplicably tries to talk you out of buying your tickets. Persevere. Once you're in the "ogo", all your troubles will melt (or spin, or splash) away. You'll be giddy as a school girl, ready to race up and do it again!
Except you can't race, you have to take this slow conveyor belt that they don't let you walk on. Yeah, they're not the best run organization around. The grounds look like something a couple of kids with no parent supervision, access to building materials, and an unlimited supply of astroturf might make. Most of our lengthy first wait was spent discussing the inefficiencies of their ogo/zorb retrieval system. But it sounds like they're workin' on it. And it's totally worth the wait. Like a total eclipse of the heart.
Atop the main (well, only) building is a small restaurant/bar area. This hidden gem has a good selection of tasty beers, and pretty good prices to boot! Even if you skip the ogo, which I would not recommend, it's not a bad spot to hang out.
Zorb me sideways, it's fun! You know you always wanted to go for a spin in the washing machine. Now's your chance.
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What a blast! I really want to go back with a large group. It was so much fun. I heard they are getting the ones that they actually harness you in so you do go upside down. Not sure if they got that yet though.
I'm dying to go back!
Comment from Meredith R. of
Amesbury Sports Park
9/18/2009
We did get the harness ball, and it's incredible! The last…
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I went here last winter to go snow tubing. It was a lot of fun. You pay by the hour. Then, these little rope things pull you up the hill, and you slide down! You can go down on your own, or hold on to a tube with friends. There is also a little snack bar thing where you can have a burger and beer. Fun place to go.
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