Two North Texas cable wakeboard parks aim to get off the ground in 2010, joining a surge of such projects that have been either completed or proposed nationwide within the last three years.
...Hoping to tap into the popularity of cable wakeboarding is the Dallas Watersports Complex (DWC), part of the proposed Trinity River Recreation District in West Dallas. The complex would serve as an anchor for the redevelopment of West Dallas, according to a proposal presented to the Trinity Trust Foundation in October by project sponsor Victor Toledo.
— Dallas Business Journal, January 15, 2010
"It's no secret that Texas has plenty of winch gaps and also has one of the premiere cables in the world (Texas Ski Ranch). But you know, Texas is a really big place. And if you don't live in Austin, or even if you live in Dallas, and wanted to take a set behind the cable, you better have a decent car!"
"But good news for the people of Dallas. Zoning approval is pending (which should be granted this summer) on project that looks to take what was formerly one of the most polluted and destitute areas in the entire country, and turn it into a brand new cable park. The park will be surrounded by a new community college and housing developments, and should eventually include multiple cables and a full skateboard park. So get psyched! The goal is a March 2010 opening, which if you can't do math is next summer!"
— Alliance WakeSkate, June, 2009
"Last year, two Florida parks – Revolution in Fort Myers and McCormicks near Tampa – became the sixth and seventh full-size cable parks in the country, joining Ski Rixen; OWC; TSR; KC Watersports in Hillside, Kansas; and Mid American Wakesports in Guthrie, Oklahoma. On June 2, Wake Nation celebrated its grand opening just outside Cincinnati, bringing the grand total of full-size U.S. cable parks to eight. The ninth, WakeSport Ranch, will open in Cresson, Texas, near Dallas, before the end of the year.
"Nine parks spread out across a country as big as the United states may not seem all that impressive, especially when you consider Germany – a country roughly the size of Montana – has somewhere around 60 (no one is quite sure of the exact count). But we’re just getting started. The states had only two parks – Ski Rixen and OWC – in 1999, and nine parks by 2009 represents a pace of nearly a park per year. Even in the current recession, that pace is quickening.
"Matt Hickman of the Wake Park Project and Blake Hess of the Cable Wake Parks, the two distributors of turnkey cable operations in the United States, both expect at least three new parks to open in 2010. At this rate, it’s realistic to imagine close to 50 parks spread across the country 10 years from now." Wakeboarding Magazine, July, 2009
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Two North Texas cable wakeboard parks aim to get off the ground in 2010, joining a surge of such projects that have been either completed or proposed nationwide within the last three years.
"It's no secret that Texas has plenty of winch gaps and also has one of the premiere cables in the world (Texas Ski Ranch). But you know, Texas is a really big place. And if you don't live in Austin, or even if you live in Dallas, and wanted to take a set behind the cable, you better have a decent car!"
"Last year, two Florida parks – Revolution in Fort Myers and McCormicks near Tampa – became the sixth and seventh full-size cable parks in the country, joining Ski Rixen; OWC; TSR; KC Watersports in Hillside, Kansas; and Mid American Wakesports in Guthrie, Oklahoma. On June 2, Wake Nation celebrated its grand opening just outside Cincinnati, bringing the grand total of full-size U.S. cable parks to eight. The ninth, WakeSport Ranch, will open in Cresson, Texas, near Dallas, before the end of the year.
