Last summer SAM Magazine kicked off a series of resort profiles featuring summer attractions across the country. These profiles were also covered in more depth in the pages of SAM. We continue our summer ops series here with a trip to Amesbury Sports Park in Amesbury, Mass., where publisher Olivia Rowan takes a ride in the OGO.

Amesbury Sports Park (www.amesburysportspark.net) is a year-round playground for all ages, offering winter and summer tubing, OGO (Outdoor Gravity Orb) rides, athletic fields, and function space and catering services.

Winter and summer tubing are two of Amesbury's main attractions. Three lanes of Neveplast Artificial Tubing Surface are available in the summer and allow riders to fly down 1,800 feet of tubing runs. Amesbury stocks 200 Tube Pro tubes in the summer months and 900 tubes in winter, when it maintains 10 groomed-snow lanes. Access to these lanes is a 520-foot Sunkid Wonder Carpet.

The OGO ball, also known as the zorb, is available only in the summer months at Amesbury. Three H2OGO balls are available for water zorbing, and two harness OGO balls are available for truly advanced disorientation. For the H2OGO, one, two or three riders enter, and seven gallons of water are added before securing the door and launching the OGO downhill. For harnessed zorbing, one or two riders are securely strapped inside the OGO.

Amesbury sees more than 500 visitors on a busy day for both summer tubing and zorbing, and more than 2,000 visitors for snow tubing. OGO tickets are $20 for the first ride and $15 for the second. The third and subsequent rides are $10. Tubing tickets for both seasons are $5 for two rides, $12 for two hours, or $17 for three hours.

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