LOST AMUSEMENT PARKS

MISSOURI & IOWA - AMUSEMENT PARKS

• Alamo Amusement Park / Cedar Park  – Des Moines, Iowa - (1906 - 1910)
• Arnold’s Park – Arnold’s Park, Iowa– (1889 - Present)
• Bayside Park – Clear Lake, Iowa – (1910 - 1930s & 1940 - 1958)
• Benit’s Amusement Park – Arnold’s Park, Iowa – (1922 - 1968)  MAP
• Carnival Park - Kansas City, MO - (1907 - 1911)
• Celebration City - Branson, MO - (1999 - 2001 & 2003 - 2008)
• Chain of Rocks Park / Fun Fair Park – St. Louis, MO – ( 1927 – 1978) [Two major fires in two year plus the opening of Six Flage in nearby Eureka]
• Creve Coeur Electric Park – St Louis, MO  - (1881 - 1934) [After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 the lake area became a hangout for gansters and hoodlums, who scared park patrons away] 
• Delmar Gardens – St. Louis, MO –   MAP - (1901 - 1918)
• Dexfield Park - Dexter / Fedfield, Iowa - (1915 - 1927 or 1932) [Best known as Bonnie & Clyde's hangout after closure]
• Dodge Park Playland - Council Bluffs, Iowa(1948 - 1970) [Highway expansion & owner Abe Slusky's death]
• Doling Park – Springfield, MO – (1907 - early 1970s) [Became city owned in 1929 & citizens eventually lost interest]
• Electric Park - Burlington, Iowa - (Nothing Known)
• Electric Park - Excelsior Springs, MO - (Nothing Known)
• Electric Park – Joplin, MO - (1909 - 1912) [Low attendance because city workers couldn't afford the attractions]
• Electric Park (Shiefferdecker) – Kansas City, MO – (1899 - 1906) [Tiny beer garden adjacent to Heim Brewery moved to a larger location]
• Electric Park (Shiefferdecker) - Kansas City, MO - (1907 - 1925)  MAP [Fire destroyed park at its larger second location]
• Electric Park – Waterloo, Iowa – (1902 - 1933)  MAP [Victim of the Depression]
• Exposition Park – Fort Dodge, Iowa – ( ? - 1928) (Nothing Known)
• Fairmont Park  (aka Electric Park) – Kansas City, MO –  MAP (1907 - 1925) [Fire destroyed park]
• Fairyland Park – Kansas City, MO –  MAP (1923 - 1977) [Tornado in 1977 caused extensive damage & competion from Worlds of Fun]
• Forest Park – E. Kansas City, MO – (1903 - 1912)  MAP [Owner died & his will stated that park couldn't continue as an amusement park]
• Forest Park Highlands – St Louis, MO – ( 1896 – 1963)   MAP - [Fire badly damaged park]
• Holiday Hill – St Louis, MO – (1955 - 1975) (Kiddie park)
• Hubinger Pastime Park – Keokuk, Iowa – (1897 - 1905 or 1908) [Hubinger's fortunes diminished - park closed]
• Ingersoll Park – Des Moines, Iowa (1903 -1912)  (Nothing Known)
• Lake Contrary Amusement Park – St. Joseph, Missouri –  MAP (1890 - 1964) [Park never fully recovered from the 1952 flood that destroyed much of the park]
• Lake Manawa Park – Council Bluffs, Iowa -  (1900 - 1928) (Nothing Known)
• Lake Ramona Park - St Louis, MO - (1926 - ?) (Nothing Known)
• Lakeside Amusement Park – Carterville / Joplin, MO – (1895 - 1935) (Nothing Known)
• Lakeside Park - Storm Lake, Iowa - (Nothing Known)
• Lakeside Park - Webb City, MO - (1895 - 1935)
• Lincoln Electric Park - Kansas City, MO - (1914? - ? ) (Blacks only)
• Lincoln Park – St Louis, MO  -  (Nothing Known)
• Mannion’s Park / Sauter's Park – St Louis, MO –  MAP (1899 - ? )
• Ozark Park – St Louis, MO  - (Nothing Known)
• Park View - St Louis, MO - (Nothing known)
• Peck’s Amusement Park / Lawlor's Park – Arnold's Park, Iowa – (1917 - 1951)  MAP
• Playland Park - Council Bluffs, Iowa - (1948 - late 1960s) [Park lost 60 acres in 1964 to build I-480 bridge & roller coaster demolished]
• Priester’s Park – St Louis, MO – MAP  (Nothing Known)
• Renraw Park - Chillicothe, MO - (1923 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Riverside Park – Sioux City, Iowa–  MAP (late 1890s - 1920s)
• Riverview Park – Des Moines, Iowa – (1913 - 1979)   MAP [Rival Adventureland bought park and despite promise to keep it open, closed it]
• Royal Park – Hannibal, MO  -  (Nothing Known)
• Sandy Beach - Wichita, MO - (1933 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Sauter's Park - St Louis, MO - (Nothing Known)
• Schifferdecker’s Electric Park – Joplin, MO  - (1909 - 1913) [Deeded park to the city & they tore down the rides]
• Schuetzen Park / Forest Park - Davenport, Iowa - (1870 - 1920) [Anti-German sentiment during WW1 & advent of Prohibition closed German park]
• Suburban Garden – St. Louis, MO –  (1895 - 1914)  MAP [Bankruptcy]
• Suburban Island Park – Davenport, Iowa – (1903 - 1917)  MAP
• Traquilla Park - St. Louis - (1908 - ?) (Nothing Known)
• Troost Park – Kansas City, MO  -  MAP - (1889 - 1902?) [City purchased the park]
• Union Park – Dubuque, Iowa – (1891 - 1934) {Power company that owned park was sold] 
• West End Heights – St Louis, MO –  (1904 - 1912) - MAP [Fire destroyed the park]
• Westlake Park – St. Louis, MO – (1924 - 1955) [Fire damaged part of park including the coaster]
• Whitaker's Pier - Clear Lake, Iowa - (1899 - 1904)
• White City – Springfield, MO –  MAP (1907 - 1912)
• White City – Des Moines, Iowa  -  (1905 - 1911) (Nothing Known)
• White Pier - Clear Lake, Iowa - (1910 - 1931)
• Winnwood Beach – Kansas City, MO –(1912 - 1930’s) [Two fires & economic hard times during the Depression closed park]