cable park cost?

I was just curious if anyone knows how much a cable park costs saying you have land and a body of water to put it on? The system 2.0 is like 30K but could you really use that fulltime?

$500,000+ for a real 4-6 tower system is what I have heard, then you have insurance and other operating costs

Yes you could use the System 2.0 full time. A complete cable system right now is $350,000 for just the system then you have to put in all the concrete to hold them.

System 2.0 = ~30,000 + land
Big one = ~500,000 + land

so say if you started a cable park with a system 2.0 in hopes to grow to a big system once business was flowing would you pay to ride system 2.0 for a summer or 2 or until the big cable system would be inserted?

(Message edited by Ironcross25 on February 17, 2009)

You aren't going to get rich off of it. Most cable parks in themselves are not huge money makers from what I have been told. It is the Pro Shop attached to it where you will make your money.

Think about it, If you charge $35.00 for the day which not many people would pay for just a sesitec system because who wants to pay $35.00 to wait in line?

It would take you 10,000 customers to get to the start level of $350,000 throw in Insurance and cost to settle lawsuits which you will have (every cable does)

I just don't think it is a money making idea. Just my .02 though.

I think if someone had 2/3 System2.0 going at a time, cap it at like 5/6 ppl per cable... besides initial costs you wouldn't have to spend much other than insurance...they are cheap to run.

You can run 2 ppl at a time correct?... so figure even 6 people on to use one... charge in like 2 hr blocks... I think quite a few people would ride it, given you had good rails and whatnot.

"You can run 2 ppl at a time correct"

How??

i hear it would take about 1 mililon to get a park built,insured and open plus some of that to float it for the first year.after that you better be making some positive cash flow to keep it a float.

Yeah sliders get expensive real quick! Especially if you use HDPE

thanks for the info. I was just curious of the cost. I would love to open one but lack the finacial backing. If i win the lottery Im game. In NE ohio there is no cable parks at all. the closest one is the new one going in in cinci and that 4 hrs away.

Man up and drive Snippy. I drive almost 5 hours from the St. Louis area to ride at KC Watersports all the time. Most likely will make the 5 hour drive from St. Louis to Cincy at least once this year to ride there too.