Lesourdsville Lake closes early, management is out

I got this from someone close to the Couch family.

Jerry and the Pugh's have been fighting all season long. One of the main issues was Jerry moving his camper business to the park site. The Pugh family told him, that by the contract, Jerry had no say in what was or would happen on the park's property. Basically they told Jerry where he could go and that he should have read the contract before he signed it.

From what I am hearing now, I would believe Jerry has read his contract a little more closely than Pugh Shows did.

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CBCon Quote "We didn't even get wet"......30 seconds later you hear plop, then splash!!!!

I have only been to the park once and I was absolutely blown away by the Screechin Eagle. It is a truly an underrated gem that most overrated woodies can't hold a candle to. I am kind of bummed to hear the news but I am sure the park will reopen next year.
I enjoyed my only visit to LeSourdsville for Screechfest and look forward to stop by the park next year!!!
The park is very beautiful and has an awesome collection of flat rides, including the Zipper.

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Feel The Adrenaline....
www.intenserides.com

This still raises two questions:

1) There is little doubt in my mind that several of the rides that were added to the park this year came from Pugh Shows when it was a carnival company. I know there was a lot of messy legal issues out of the Pugh Shows bankruptcy and all, but the issue remins, "Who owns those rides now" Do they stey with Couch and the park, or do they travel away with the Pughs.

2) What now? Who will Couch bring in next to run the park, and can he find anybody willing to deal with him?

Extra Credit Question: What harm would have befallen either party by operating the park through its posted schedule of Sept 29???

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David Bowers
Mayor, Coasterville

This can't be that bad of a move. We went to the park this summer (very end of July) and it was not in good shape-dirty with lots of broken down rides. It reminded me of a mall parking lot carnival but with a bigger sleaze factor. (And I didn't know the carnival background it had until reading this thread.) Also many of the buildings were closed (food stands/shops.)

The coaster there was great and it would nice to see this park shape up into a place you could bring the family for a day. As it was this summer, I wouldn't consider spending the day there.

Hmmm, the park was always clean, there was a well maintained staff of people picking up trash checking to see if the bathrooms were clean. As for the rides being broke, it was the first opening in 3 years, kinks do happen, How many rides were down? Food stands were open, those not open were being redone to open. You must of been the only one that didn't bring the family, cause there was plenty of families there enjoying the park.It sounds to me as if you use to work at the park and now have a grudge to take out. Well look to good ol'Couch for that. From what I have heard he has a "GOD complexe" thing. Any group that goes in there will have to contend with this and I bet they walk atfer 4 months if that. There was only so much time to get the park ready to open, those rides sat 3 years in the wheather unkept, you'd think couch would of done some preventived maintainence in those 3 years If he intended to reopen the park.

Sorry, I never worked there and had never been there before this summer. We stopped there on our way from NYS to Kentucky. One of my passions is supporting small amusement parks even when they don't have coasters. I have no axe to grind. I sincerely hope the park can clean itself up because it had great potential.

The day we were there, there were at least 4 rides not operating and other than one building to the left of where you come in and a store (candy store I think) out near the log flume, there were no other buildings open. (And no signs of them being worked on that day either. At least one of the broken down rides was being worked on!). I don't know where the staff who were in charge of cleaning were but there weren't in the washrooms. Considering when we got there the park had only been open less than an hour, it looked like the washroom hadn't been cleaned from the day before.

The park obviously was having management and/or money issues. I thought it was because they were just trying to re-open but then I realized they had been open a few months and in the amusement park business you can't take a few months to get things in gear because the season is only a few months long.

I hope new management comes in and can get the park in shape. There is great potential in that park. Spend the fall and spring season working on getting the rides in working order and the buildings ready to open and next summer hire some non carny types to run the rides and the games. (And tell them to stop accosting customers. I hated feeling like I was being panhandled to play the games!!! But that is a different problem) If all that is done, LeSourdsville could be a great little park and be a wonderful family alternative to spending $200 for a place likes King's Island.