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South haven park11/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Go spend the day at Michigan's Adventure, simply better experience. By the way, expensive garbage junk food with almost no choices, no food allowed to beach, the blow-ups stink like algae, the water is very cloudy. Again, the waiver you sign might warn of some of these things, but now you know. If the wake boarding requires boarders who can steer, swim strong to retrieve boards, etc, maybe do not sell tickets to the youngsters. Maybe my experience was due to low staffing during the weekday, but that is no excuse to ignore very basic water safety rules, or OSHA safety rules. The South Haven Harbor Walk is a beautiful walking tour that takes you by the Michigan Maritime Museum, downtown South Haven, along the Black River and beautiful Lake Michigan. Someone is going to perish at this park unless they get some common sense. From the Kal-Haven Trail, Van Buren Trail State Park or the Downtown Trailhead in South Haven, there is a nature or bike trail to get out and discover. This lifeguard spent a lot of time distracted by swimmers nearing a couple blow-ups that apparently were "off limits", so she was constantly policing them or the occasional adult whose toes touched the lake but had no life jackets. Visitors to this haunted drive-thru experience are immersed in the chilling details of a 40-year-old 'cold case.' See if you can you solve it before you reach the exit. One life guard for maybe 80 kids in the water, continually slipping off the blowups, sometimes onto those already in the water. Put your crime-solving skills to the test when you traverse The Forgotten Road in Southaven Park. Ali O’Johnson J Mountain biking About what you can expect from southhaven park. The blow up lake is run the same, no far end lifeguard despite the blow ups hide anyone in the water. 3 4.2 596 reviews Write review Sort by: Kristen Fischer J Hiking Great bike trail. My older son was struck in the ankle by his board, floated in harms way while kids that knew nothing of controlling their wake boards barreled within feet of him - the operators got angry but did nothing to help him nor stop the rides. ![]() There are no life guards on the far end of the course, which is probably a good 300 yard run before you would even jump in the water to help. They tried to force him to swim out, through the other wake boarders zipping around the course, to retrieve the board, then swim back through the gauntlet. My 8 year old son earlier lost his board, which the wind blew to an island. Later they sent one of the teens to climb the crane, barefoot, and balance beam her way out to the still spinning pully at the end to untangle it, no fall arrest, no turning off the machine. In the meantime, the operator simply set up another kid to launch. The teenager helpers watched while the dad ran about 100 yards to where his son was and dove in to save him. I watched in horror as a boy repeatedly struggled to lift his face out of the water with the board stuck to his feet, forcing him down. The operator was rude, and flanked by 2 "helpers" who did not serve as life guards. We visited during the week, our experience was stressful because of the wake board operation. ![]()
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