Ah, the memories. Well, the ones that settled in despite the concussions.

Earlier this month, the Star-Ledger reported the legendary Action Park — the fun-filled, fast-paced amusement park that, statistically speaking, probably didn't kill you when you went in the 1980s or 1990s — is coming back.

It's been a long time since the property in Vernon became Mountain Creek Ski Resort, and since 1998 what's left of the park itself has been operating as Mountain Creek Waterpark (with significant safety upgrades). But the park's current owners say nostalgia for the old, infamously dangerous park has gotten the better of them, and they've got some new rides planned that they say will scare the cold, wet shorts right off you. So when the site reopens June 14, it'll be Action Park once again.

A few days ago, we showed you the absolutely insane Canonball Loop, which was so hazardous it was open for only one month in 1985. You might say that ride, with its are-you-kidding-me ending, is all you need to know about what made Action Park either amazing or massively irresponsible (or both).

Then again, you might not. Here's 10 things you probably didn't know about Action Park:

(Oh! But before we get started: Tell us what you remember about the park in the comments. And we'd love to see your photos! Shoot them to lhochman@nj.com).

1. "Only" six people died at Action Park: Oh, is that all? As Mentalfloss.com notes, the list grows and grows in our memories. "Ask anyone born in Jersey between 1970 and 1984, and you'll hear a ranging toll. Twenty. Thirty-six. North of 100. But the real answer is only six," according to the site. That includes three drownings in the Wave Pool (nicknamed the Gravepool), a park employee's death on the infamous Alpine Slide (more on that below), an electrocution on the Kayak Experience and a heart attack supposedly brought on by cold water in the pool beneath the Tarzan Swing.

2. Someone once called the Alpine Slide "the safest ride there is:" This was a giant slide on which you'd sit on a sled, then descend down concrete tracks using levers to brake — if you were the sort of person who cared to brake. If you couldn't control your speed on the way down, you might wind up crashing through hay-bale barriers and smashing up on the hillside rocks. But Weird NJ quotes a 1986 New Jersey Herald Article in which a park official called the slide "the safest ride there is" and noted a 90-year-old grandmother and mothers with babies on their laps had made the way down. The same posting says at least 14 fractures and 26 head injuries caused by the slides were reported between 1984 and 1985, and the slide was responsible for "more accidents, the majority of the lawsuits and 40 percent of the citations" against the park.

RideAccidents.com says of a death on the slide in 1980: "In an accident at an amusement park in New Jersey, a malfunction caused a wheeled sled to derail from its cement track after it failed to properly negotiate a curve. The victim, a 19-year-old male, was thrown from the car down an embankment. He sustained a fatal head injury when his head struck a rock. He died 8 days later."

3. Heard the legend of the dummies on the Cannonball Loop? Just a few days ago, we showed you that video of what may have been Action Park's craziest and most dangerous ride (though the competition was pretty fierce), the Cannonball Loop. The waterslide, with its 360-degree totally-seems-safe loop at the end, was shut down after just a month, though it stayed on site as a reminder of the park's ... let's call it "eccentricity." According to Weird NJ: "It supposedly dismembered test dummies and maybe even a few park employees in trial runs." Buzzfeed quoted someone who claimed his father built the slide: "The story about the dummies is completely true! They used the dummies to test several of the rides at the park and every time a dummy came off the ride dismembered they would try it again until it stayed in one piece, then they would pay someone to test it!"

4. You could JOUST at Action Park: Well, you could if you first made it through an obstacle course composed of downward-moving conveyors, a 24-foot hand ladder, a cargo net climb, a zipline, a 10-foot wall and a 16-foot rotating cylinder, The Gazette reported in 1992. If you made it that far, you'd challenge a gladiator on a three-foot podium (with large, padded sticks — though the padding sounds awfully un-Action-Park-like to us). If you made it through that, you'd get to have the stuffing beat out of you by "Titan," an even bigger gladiator on an even bigger podium.

5. Action Park's owners wound up buying ambulances for Vernon: Citing a Jersey Sunday Herald Article, Sometimes-Interesting.com reports: "In 1987, the director of a nearby hospital's Emergency Room admitted 'five to ten' people were being brought in daily from the park. Reported injuries ran the gamut: Ankle sprains, broken bones, and cuts and contusions, dislocations, and concussions. The park denied wrongdoing, but Great American Recreation purchased additional ambulances for the town of Vernon to keep up with the increased volume."

6. Action Park was often let off easy: Citing a 1986 New Jersey Herald article, Weird NJ reports that in 1985 there were more than 110 injuries at Action Park, including 45 head injuries and 10 fractures. But Action Park was fined just once between 1979 and 1986 for not following procedure. Other amusement parks were fined for first offenses, but not Action Park, according to the report.

7. Employees knew how to make things more dangerous: While much of Action Park's legend comes centers around its Waterworld, its Motorworld, across Route 94, could also be awfully hazardous. Weird NJ reports that patrons treated Super-Go Karts like bumper cars, and park employees knew how to override their speed governors with tennis balls — sending the karts whizzing around at up to 50 miles per hour. "One employee recalls hearing the sick snap of a patron's arm breaking as a result of a crash," the magazine says.

8. The NEW Action Park is promising to be awfully scary, too: Mountain Creek president Bill Benneyan told News 12 the park will have a ride called the Zero-G. "It's the world's tallest and only double-looping drop-gate slide. It's going to scare the heck out of you," he said. Are we talking about get-the-adrenaline-pumping scared or get-your-affairs-in-order scared? Well, Mountain Creek has spent a lot of time and energy renovating the old park, and Benneyan says it's spent $5 million on new rides that we presume are subject to some sort of safety codes. "Action Park was extreme before extreme was extreme," Benneyan says. That's one way to put it.

9. Action Park wasn't the only Action Park: The infamous Action Park was, of course, in Vernon, but during the 1980s, two other offshoot locations were opened — Pocono Action Park an Motor World in Tannersville, Pa., and Action Park in Pine Hill. The latter was renamed Action Mountain within a year, and financial problems closed both down before the 1980s were over.

10. Cory Booker can't wait to go back:

Bonus: Somehow, reporter Louis C. Hochman didn't know anything about Action Park 24 hours ago. Seriously. He (I) grew up in New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s, but somehow Action Park was entirely off his radar. No one he's told believes that's possible — but he sure has spent a lot of time over the last day catching up on the apparently infamous site.

So tell us what he's missing: What do you remember about Action Park? And remember to shoot your photos to lhochman@nj.com.