Wasserbahn Waiting For New Owners And Demolition In 2025

Since 2022, the story of the Wasserbahn has been filled with questions, frustrations, and sadness. Now, the memories of the Wasserbahn and some of the surrounding businesses are fading. It is now completely abandoned. We are now seeing more updates in 2025.

One recent update stated that the park and hotel were almost demolished once over the last three years.

How The Wasserbhan closed.

It appears that some employees and many customers didn't see this closing coming though some apparently did. The first public announcement was allegedly a deleted Facebook post about the closing made in February 2022. According to KCRG, the waterpark had a recent investment as well which made the story even crazier.

The closure came despite Smock Investments and Owner Thomas Smock receiving two rounds of COVID relief money for Wasserbahn. Records show the business got $141,500 in April of 2020, and then another $198,562 in February of 2021. Still, employees claim checks were bouncing.

Many rumors and speculations took over the internet about the situation last year and many left the situation with their own ideas on what brought the place down. The biggest one for many was the idea of alleged poor management. It is truly sad to see such a beloved place from all members of the family abandoned.

Updates in 2025 For The Wasserbahn

KCRG went on to report that this location is still for sale, and would need to remove asbestos on the property. Sheriff Rotter went on to say,

People are going on the property all the time, they post it to Facebook. It’s been a problem and there’s been some arrests made and so I would just warn people it is not open to the public and should be respected as private property.

We actually talked about these photos in past posts.

*Reminder* Do NOT trespass onto this property it is not only dangerous... it is also illegal.