Looking Down the Giant Slide by Belle Isle Park
Detroit’s Belle Isle Park shares that the infamous Giant Slide – which briefly opened last August before quickly closing after riders were going way too fast – will reopen for the summer this Friday (July 19) from 11-6pm. Regular hours through Labor Day will be Friday 12:30 -5:30pm and Saturday & Sunday from 10:30-3:30pm. It only costs $1 per ride so I’m expecting plenty of pics from all of you!!
Now here’s a look courtesy GmacCash at what’s in store for you on the Giant Slide!
Michigan in Pictures 
Hmm – I’ve never seen it from this perspective, only from the bottom. Yikes!
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Did you watch the video? Thing is legitimately TERRIFYING! Definitely riding my bike over Friday if I don’t have to work 😆
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Yes, it is scary and I remember the controversy last year with all the kids falling off. Charlie Langton at WWJ Radio tried it out and went flying onto his back. Yes, go for some fun pics of it … don’t plan on swimming. The beach is closed, so everyone will be trying out the slide!
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I remember riding it in the early 70s!!! I thought my brain was playing tricks though because I remember the yellow. I checked out the Detroit Historical Society page on the history of the Giant Slide and learned…
THE BIG YELLOW SLIDE
While the current slide has been in place for several years, it is not the original that Detroiters of a certain age remember riding. That original slide was opened on July 4th, 1968. It was manufactured by a California-based outfit called Sky-Slide International. It had a distinctive yellow fiberglass surface and was about 45 feet high. Riders would climb the stairs along the slide’s right side to a platform from which they’d speed down atop a burlap potato sack over the slide’s dips and humps.
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