Kentucky Action Park

Only got to ride the horses for half and hour. It was fun and the guides were nice and kept you entertained. They also played the cowboy part well.
Word to he wise, the park closes at 6 everyday, even during the summer. We did not have enough time to do anything else so we were alittle let down.

We did the horseback riding, zip lining, chair lift and alpine slide. We came on a Saturday and it was very hot (about 100 degrees). Ricky was the first person we talked to there and he was very welcoming and friendly. He explained where to buy which tickets and answered all of our questions.
The activities were fun and we did enjoy ourselves but the trip was ruined by some of the other unfriendly staff members. The employees at the top of the chair lift and the alpine slide were so rude! They would not take time to explain what we needed to do, made sure that we knew they were annoyed with us and they even made fun of my friend because she got off on the wrong side of the lift (because we couldn’t hear them talking to us.) I dreaded going back up there after the alpine slide for the zip line and I almost just didn’t do it even though I had already paid.
Another issue we had was with the horses at the horse riding stable. They looked dirty and tired; I felt so bad for them! The heat was 100+ that day and they had the horses tied up in direct sunlight with no water. They were already sweating and tired before we even got to ride them. I have been to other horse riding stables that take much better care of their horses and I would recommend going somewhere else for this activity.
Overall, they do have fun activities for families here but the park is a bit run down, and so are the attitudes of many of the staff. This is supposed to be a family friendly fun park and it should be a requirement for the staff to be friendly and patient with people who have never been there before. The rudeness of those staff members will cause us to never go back or recommend this park to others.

This review is for the Alpine Slide only.
This was by far the coolest alpine slide I’ve been on! $ 5 for a very cool ride on a ski lift to the top, and an even cooler ride on the slide down. Then you get back on the lift and it takes you the rest of the way back. We did this on our way out of town and I wish we got the unlimited pass to do the slide more than once! Definitely recommend!

It’s really not a place for shorter children. Mine are under five and they seriously could hardly do anything. We went horse back riding and our guide had an accident where he was thrown from his horse and knocked unconscious. Blood was gushing from his head and then he tried to lie about it when he came to. He didn’t even want to go to the hospital. So my kids had to witness this nasty accident AND they were a little crappy about our refund when we were too uncomfortable to finish the trail. If you ride, where a helmet. Even this experienced dude had an accident that could have been minor had he been wearing a helmet to save him from the tree he hit with his head. Most of the staff are teenagers. Rude ones at that. The staff have no issues with smoking around anyone, even little kids. I give it three stars because the rest of the place looked as if it would have been fun had we gotten to try it. My husband did zip line down the mountain and had a blast. But we won’t be going back. It’s not worth the rest of the unpleasantries. I hope our guide is ok. My children still ask about him.

We (myself, my wife and 6yo) stopped on the way back from mammoth cave and wanted to go horseback riding. We got our tickets and fitted our helmets (provided) and waited until our ride. Fun place. Ricky and his people made sure we were comfortable, safe and had a great time. Very pleasant gentleman, Ricky told us stories, takes about his riding championships and showed us the lovely trails and land. We had a marvelous time and will be back when in the area again. Thanks Ricky!

This place was so much fun. My family of 5 enjoyed the zipline and the alpine slide. We did the slide at least a half a dozen times each. We enjoyed the bumper boats, bumper cars, rock wall, and go carts. The guys that led the zipline, were awesome. They were very patient with the smaller kids. My husband got a free admission for being active duty military and the man sincerely thanked him for his service. We would have stayed all day, if we didn’t have to move on to our next destination.

Good stop for kids! For $ 25 you can stay all day and ride all kinds of things. It’s not comparable to a big theme park, but it def kept us all entertained. The Alpine slide was crazy fun! We had no complaints! We missed our free cave tour but that was ok. If you’re traveling by, Cave City is a good stop to let your kids run off some steam! Staff were all friendly and funny. Def Kentucky!

On our drive to Mammoth Cave from breakfast at the Cracker Barrel, we passed through a sad stretch of road full of shattered small business dreams. We counted five closed mini-​golf courses with themes ranging from the 50s to Hillbilly Holiday. We saw shuttered bumper boat pools and defunct gift shops. In the middle of all of this, we stopped at the Mammoth Cave Wax Museum. While we debated spending $ 11 a person to go through an attraction that only had one other car in the parking lot, we decided against it. We filled the morning stopping to look at the other surrounding busineses, closed or not. This romantic weekend was turning into a complete bust. Then, we happened upon Kentucky Action Park!
As teens, Alexa and I LOVED going down the Alpine Slide at Ski World in Brown County, Indiana together. LOVED IT! Now, we had a chance to ride it again. It didn’t matter if we missed our time to pick up tickets for the Historic Tour of Mammoth Cave (We didn’t) or that we thought they had all been torn down for being incredibly unsafe. There was no choice. This was our romantic weekend where we needed to reconnect as life partners, not just business partners. Had I known there was an Alpine Slide, we would have just gone to the area to ride it and relive one of the things we enjoyed together as kids.
While it was quite reasonable to ride at $ 5 (including going up the ski lift), we would have paid far more than that each to experience the joy of riding without safety equipment down a steep incline on roller skate wheels. After a leisurely, enjoyable ascent up the picturesque hill, we arrived at the Alpine Slide start. After a few instructions, ZOOM! We raced down the hill at full throttle with wind whipping through our hair as we tried to bank the turns. We were both laughing and full of smiles, the memory of the evening’s hotel stay debacle fading into the background as we had fun. NOTE: I am laughing out loud as a I type, because it was soooooooooooo much fun. Do it. We should have ridden it again.
As we had to hurry along to make sure that we didn’t miss our tour of Mammoth Cave, we weren’t able to experience any other activities at Kentucky Action Park. It was a busy place, though. The zipline, bumper boats, and riding stables were teeming with families enjoying the long weekend. The bathrooms were clean. While many might think that the ski lift could use a coat of paint, we thought seeing the colors of years past added to the experience. Riding up the ski lift was the turning point to our weekend – taking it from something we were soldering through to a great weekend of love and fun.