Is Rocky Point a bust?

[alexi]

I'm contemplating shooting some footage for a bike video there.
Want to know if we will be risking life and limb going there.

I asume that we may get trespasing tickets, but thats not soo soo bad. :ph43r:  <_<  

[skully]

Not sure if there are any structures there that would work out for your shoot.   If I were you, I'd just go and make something happen.  You're bound to find something that works.  Good luck.

[MikeDijital]

Here are my pics of the place

http://www.dijitalphotography.com/gallery/amusedtodeath.html


As for security , The first time I went, there wasn't a human to be seen, the next time I went I had Unit calling me from the outside telling me security was blocking the way out, but then again we left, then came back 30 minutes later and it was all quiet again except for 4 kids on skateboards, who i fooled into thinking I was a guard , hahahaha. prolly could have got there ID's my story was so airtight

[ectocooler]

Rocky Point was the first abandoned place I scoped outside of CT.  The only advice I have is day > night.

[hansbugs]

I was curious to go to Rocky Point but I was wondering is the place worth going?  I mean can I get into the park without getting caught?   I remember going there as a kid and I would love just to go back and check the place out again.  I"m new at all this but I"m going to start  exploring abandon places.

[floored]

i went in there when i waS YOUNger and heard and organ then footsteps but i was in an open area so i jus got the f*ck out quick. my habdlebars on my bike fell foward i smashed my nuts into them then my leg hit my tire while it was spinnin rippin my shit open. it sucked. go at night theres a house behind the paladium, try n walk around in it. I live over there so i know ways in other tan the gate n stuff.

[Zebra]

I live 1/2 mile down the road from RP.
If you are going to scope it out, I suggest doing so quickly. Last night there was a meeting at City Hall where plans were laid out to put up housing.....So it won't be long before the place is alive again.

~Zebra

Written by BARRETT, CHRIS     
Tue, Feb 21 06 
By CHRIS BARRETT


Developers plan to unveil new conceptual plans for the former Rocky Point Amusement Park at a City Hall meeting tomorrow night.


Joseph Shekarchi, an attorney for Vanderbilt LLC, said the company is working with developer Toll Brothers to gather comments from residents about a proposal to build 395 units on Rocky Point Beach and the former Rocky Point Amusement Park.


Shekarchi said the companies have not filed any plans with the city but are seeking comments as part of a broader initiative to keep residents involved in the process.


"This is just another one of our community meetings," he said. "It's not an unveiling of anything completely new. There's constant revision to the plan to help Toll Brothers understand what the issues are and the community to understand what the scale and scope is."


Shekarchi said developers would be showing a plan that includes six three-story multi-family buildings on the land of the former amusement park that closed in 1996 after financial problems.


"Those buildings are designed in a coastal Rhode Island-style—brick with dormer roofs, some Victorian and New England-style shingling," Shekarchi said. "They wouldn't look institutional. They'll look residential, something like the mansions in Newport."


Shekarchi said Toll Brothers has retained Boston-based CBT Architects to design the buildings that would house about 44 units each and prepare proposals for condominiums at the nearby Rocky Point Beach area.


"The remaining units [at Rocky Point Beach] will be carriage house or townhouse style condominiums with two or three attached units," Shekarchi said.


Under the terms of an agreement between the beach association and the Small Business Administration, the current landowner, beach residents will have to leave their homes by Nov. 30, 2006 to make way for the project.


Combined, both sites are about 125 acres and Shekarchi said that under the current proposal half, or 62.5 acres, would remain open space.


"There's a lot of open space in this project that could be developed but we're trying to maximize open space and in order to do that we're going to have to continue to discuss how to fund [the project]," Shekarchi said.


He added that designers have also made efforts to maintain public access to the beach – an issue residents raised when the city first discussed proposals for the land's use.


"This project anticipates, and we'll have on the submitted plans, multiple public trails to the water," Shekarchi said.


Shekarchi said plans also call for constructing a public parking lot near the former park entrance and cleaning up environmental hazards, including a former landfill.


"We're not anticipating any major [environmental] impact other than positive," Shekarchi said. "The notion is to improve the quality of the environment there, which remember, that property has been beaten up pretty badly both from the Rocky Point Amusement Park and from neglect over the years."


Sue Baker, spokeswoman for Mayor Scott Avedisian, said the mayor had not seen the proposal and thus could not comment. However, she said the mayor would "need to discuss" Toll Brother's proposal to build 395 units.


Under a purchase and sales agreement with the SBA, Vanderbilt can build at least 350 units. While the agreement does not specifically prohibit more units, an increase would most likely need to be negotiated with the city, which has final approval over the site's plans.


SBA Regional Director Mark Hayward said the agency had not seen the plans and directed questions to the mayor's office.


Wednesday's meeting will be held at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at Warwick City Hall.

[Megster]

When I went I thought the land had just been sold to a developer and that Rocky Point would soon be no more, so we got our asses there quick so as not to miss it.

That was in 2003.

I think there's still plenty of time.

[skully]

They've been talking about similar opportunities for this site for 10 years.  I wonder if this is legit.

I lived near RP growing up.  It was the destination to be, something on the mind of every little boy and girl as the ultimate "fun place".  I couldn't wait to go each summer.

Soon Rocky Point went bye-bye.  Dakiel and I went to school nearby and would visit Rocky Point and surrounding buildings.  We've found nearby structures to be as interesting, if not more interesting than RP.

Nearby Structures:

Aldrich Estate-  Old slave tunnel underground leading from building to bay
Stone Boathouse-  Frequented by satanic groups, reports of cloaked people in surrounding wooded area

[Megster]

Oh god, I loved Rocky Point.  And it seemed SO FAR AWAY, but it really wasn't.  

I just put together photo albums with my grandmother and found pictures of my mom at the park around 1962 and 1971. Too bad my parents never thought to bring a camera out there .














My favorite ride was the Cyclone

Oddly enough, I never went on the Corkscrew.  When my mom and I got in a rollover accident in 1993, one of my first thoughts after getting pulled out of the car was thinking that I wouldn't be afraid of going upside down on a rollercoaster anymore (I was 9).  Haha.


Skully, those other places you mentioned sound interesting.  I've been thinking about heading back to Rocky Point for some time now, so maybe I'll head out there soon

[skully]

Awesome photos!

[Megster]

Thanks!

I just wish there were more

[Zebra]

Hey Skully!

Believe it or not, that Slave Tunnel also was used during the 1930s to move illegal booze into Rhode Island.

"Invention is the Mother"..but if it ain't broke...don't fix it!

~Zebra

[undeath]

Man... Rocky Point... so many memories...

I went there several times a year every year from an early age to the day it closed. All day every time. And then got a ton of clam chowder and clam fritters to take home. I have the clam chowder recipe somewhere on this computer...

I was upset that I didn't make it back to take pictures and hang out before pieces were auctioned off, but I found information on where some of the rides are now in operation.

[Megster]

Really?  That's awesome.  I wish I'd ridden the Corkscrew at least once, but I never did.  And I don't think I was ever old enough for the Freefall...didn't you have to be 12 or 13?  I don't remember.

[undeath]

Really?  That's awesome.  I wish I'd ridden the Corkscrew at least once, but I never did.  And I don't think I was ever old enough for the Freefall...didn't you have to be 12 or 13?  I don't remember.

Freefall didn't appeal to me, but I do remember the age limit. Everything else was height and that one was probably the only thing by age in the only park I've seen do that. Even Riverside had only a height requirement.

I don't remember a lot, but I do remember I went on everything EXCEPT Freefall and that was too intense to watch, nevermind ride.

There's something I've been trying to figure out for years. It's information on my first ever concert I attended. Might have been 1994. I'm trying to find out if Seal ever performed there. I know they had concerts, but I haven't gotten around to asking my dad who it was that night. It's the only thing on my concert list that is a blank. Seal's people haven't gotten back to me after two years.

[BMac718]

You guys gotta check out this site:
http://www.joenisil.com/rockypoint/

[skully]

Great link, I'll add this one to our links page (under other).

BTW, I rode the Corkscrew over and over again it's first season.  Loved it.  Canoby Lake Park (NH) has one almost exactly like it.

[Megster]

Looks like a day trip to NH this summer is going to be on my agenda lol

[Megster]

I posted all my pics of Rocky Point in the Storage Bunker!  44 from my trip in 2003.

[omnipotence]

Nearby Structures:

Aldrich Estate-  Old slave tunnel underground leading from building to bay
Stone Boathouse-  Frequented by satanic groups, reports of cloaked people in surrounding wooded area

Ok im upping this topic cause i noticed the old slave tunnel I had heard about.  I think i know wear it is but i havnt checked it out yet, if there is an exit to the bay id rather go in from that way cause itl be easier to get in compared to the entrance i think it is.  Could someone possibly tell me the best way to get in or ill just have to figure it out myself haha.  I read about it awhile ago in the library in some book with the history of warwick

[CarbonCavi]

ooo oo oo i wanna goooo!

[k wilks]

slave tunnel sounds cool, but isnt all of rocky point torn down now??

[omnipotence]

nahh i live within walking distance to rocky point, there are still two large buildings i havnt been able to find away into, the two biggest and most interesting buildings they keep locked up, but Im workin on getting in.  I think the tunnel entrance is in an old horse stable in warick neck.  Gotta check it out soon.  come to warwick if you wanna come we can try to get into the two big buildings left at rocky point to if the possible slave tunnel entrance isnt were i think it is

[omnipotence]

Well the spot were i thought the tunnel is....I might of been wrong about that cause i was reading an article online and i supposubly it starts at the abandoned indian oaks tower and leads to a boathouse

[Megster]

Slave tunnel definitely sounds interesting!

When I was at Rocky Point in 2003 I ran into some Asian kid who was going in and out of the manholes there.  Who knows, maybe he was looking for it.