Organize
Community
The fastest way to help is to bring one more person in. Nearly everything this campaign has achieved so far happened because someone forwarded something to someone else.
Join the group
Organizers post notices as they appear — comment periods, hearing dates, and the SEPA determination when it lands. If you only do one thing beyond signing, make it this: the next comment window will be days long, and the group is where that news travels first.
Share it
The petition grows almost entirely by word of mouth. A share reaches people no amount of organizing can.
- Send the petition to three specific people who would care — not a broadcast post. Named, individual messages convert several times better.
- Post a photograph of your own family at the park alongside the link. Personal memories travel; campaign graphics do not.
- If you live in Milton, Edgewood, or Fife, say so when you share. Most people in those communities do not yet know the truck route is proposed through their streets.
Share your memories and photographs
A memory
The coaster that followed me west
One of the roller coasters at Wild Waves is not from here. The Corkscrew opened at Rocky Point Park in Warwick, Rhode Island, in 1984 — the same summer Wild Waves opened in Federal Way. When Rocky Point closed in 1995 its rides were auctioned off, and Enchanted Parks bought the Corkscrew for $805,000. It reopened here in June 1997, repainted and renamed Wild Thing.
I grew up in Connecticut, close enough to Rocky Point that the Corkscrew was the first roller coaster I ever rode. Years later I moved to Washington for college, and found it waiting for me three thousand miles from where I left it, under a different name.
Rocky Point is a state park now. The coaster outlived it by thirty years — and is scheduled to be demolished along with everything else on this site.
That is the kind of thing this campaign wants. Yours does not need to span a continent — a birthday, a first job, a photograph from 1988 all carry the same weight.
This site deliberately has empty spaces where photographs should be. That is not an oversight.
There are almost no freely usable photographs of Wild Waves or Enchanted Village — the park is private property, and nearly every picture of it belongs to a family or a news outlet. Rather than use images we have no right to, the campaign is asking the community to supply them.
If you send photographs, please confirm you took them, or that you have the photographer’s permission, and that the campaign may publish them. Anything used will be credited however you ask.
Help in a way only you can
Campaigns like this are usually short of specific skills rather than general enthusiasm. If any of these are yours, the organizers want to hear from you:
- You have read a traffic impact analysis before, or reviewed a SEPA checklist
- You work in land use, planning, or environmental law
- You are a journalist, or you know one who covers South King County
- You worked at the park, in any era — first-hand accounts carry weight nothing else does
- You live on or near Milton Road South and can speak to current traffic