page_title: South Pier, Blackpool
section_title: Modern day pier
hierarchical_section_title: South Pier, Blackpool / Modern day pier
caption_attribution_description: Blackpool's South Pier (and work on the new sea wall in left foreground)
context_page_description: South Pier is one of three piers in Blackpool, England. Located on South Promenade on the South Shore, the pier contains a number of amusement and adrenaline rides. It opens each year from March to November and is owned by The Sedgwick family.
context_section_description: The pier head theatre was demolished and replaced by the Crazy Mouse roller coaster in 1998. The pier now contains numerous rides including dodgems, Crazy Mouse and a Waltzer, the Laughing Donkey Family Bar, which has live entertainment, a Kiddies Ride Arena, as well as the Adrenaline Zone which houses: "Skycoaster", a freefalling swing at a height of 38 m (124 ft 8 in); "Skyscreamer", a Reverse Bungee ride; "Spider Mountain", a multi-storey climbing spiders web; and "Maxibounce", an acrobatic, safety harnessed trampoline.
  On 10 April 2011, seventy people were trapped by the tide near the pier.
caption: A view of the rides on South Pier
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