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ICYMI - Favourite Places Gone Forever: A Love Letter to a Water Slide
Calgary's Thunder Run water slide is gone after decades of freezing walkups, flashing green lights, and a climb that always felt endless. Before its final closure, the city gave it a proper send-off, with the mayor himself showing up to mark the moment.
That closure opens up a wider search through Canada's lost attractions, including a water park connected to a political scandal that ended a former BC premier's career entirely. Some of these places lasted decades. One ran for over a century before it disappeared and became a gated neighbourhood.
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