David Thompson Resort has towered more than three storeys at the side of Highway 11, no doubt inspiring countless back seat campaigns to convince parents to stop en route to mountain getaways" />

No Grown-ups Allowed

Since the early 1970s, the rocket in the playground at the David Thompson Resort has towered more than three storeys at the side of Highway 11, no doubt inspiring countless back seat campaigns to convince parents to stop en route to mountain getaways

Oct 11, 2009

by Scott Messenger

Built with salvage from Nordegg’s defunct coal mine, the structure has undergone annual checkups and welding since Wendy and Ron Killick bought into the 40-year-old campground and motel complex in 1995. You have to satisfy insurers, explains Wendy, and keep kids – of all ages – safe. “In the afterhours we have to kick people off because it’s the adults that are up there playing around. You’ve been warned,” she adds, prompted by my confession of having too recently climbed to that lofty cockpit – in daylight hours. How else do you report on one of the tallest, scariest slides this side of the Rockies? Your kids will love it. (So will you.)

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