LOST AMUSEMENT PARKS

PENNSYLVANIA - AMUSEMENT PARKS

• Alameda Park – Butler, PA – (1901 - 1943) [Attendance declined when trolley service ended in 1941]
• Aliquippa Park – Aliquippa, PA  (1905 - 1908) (Nothing Known)
• Angela Park – Drums, PA –  (1956 - 1988) [With skyrocketing insurance rates, company filed for bankruptcy]
• Beechwood Amusement Park – Havertown / Philadelphia) , PA  (1907 - 1909) (Nothing Known)
• Bernesco Park – PA - (1910 - 1950) [All rides removed after 1936 flood - only dance hall remained open]
• Bonnie Brae Park - Phoenixville / Spring City, PA - (1901 - 1924) [Closed when trolley service discontinued]
• Burke Glen Park – Monroeville, PA -  (1926 - 1974)  [After widening highway reduced park size in 1940's - park never recovered]
• Burlington Island Park - Bristol, PA - (1900 - 1934) (Nothing Known) [Park destroyed by fire]
• Bushkill Amusement Park – Easton, PA –  (1902 – 2004)  MAP [2004 flood during a huricane wiped out most of park]
• Cabana Beach Park – Hendersonville, PA  - (Nothing Known)
• Calhoun Park – West Homestead, PA  - (1895 - 1910?)
• Carsonia Park / Pendora Park – Reading, PA –  MAP (1896 - 1950) [Park attendance declined after troller service discontinued in 1939]
• Cascade Park – New Castle, PA – (1892 - 1989) [Declining attendance epecially after coaster closed in 1983]
• Castle Rocks Park - Newtown Square, PA - (1899 - 1905) [Couldn't compete with closer Philadephia parks]
• Central Park – Allentown, PA – (1892 – 1951)  MAP [Park closed after a fire burned coaster, carousel & theater.]
• Chestnut Hill Park (aka White City) – Gleaside, PA  - (1898 - 1912) [Neighborhood residents despised park - pooled their money and bought it]
• Coney Island Park – Pittsburgh, PA (on Neville Island) - (1907 - 1908 or 1909) (Nothing Known) [Jones & Lauglin Steel Corp. bought island for new steel mill}
• Conneaut Lake Park / Exposition Park) – PA – (1892 - 1994 & 1996 - 2006)   MAP [Declining attendance due to competing nearby parks]
• Croop’s Glen Park – Nanticoke, PA – (1904 - 1941) [Rising insurance costs and gas rationing during WW2]
• DeGrosso's Amusement Park / Bland's Park - Tipton, PA - (1947 - Present)
• Dorney Park – PA – (1884 – Present)  MAP
• Dream City – Wilkensburg / Penn Hills, PA - (1906 - 1916)
• Dreamland  Park / Wolf Park / Wolf Lake Park – Chambersburg, PA – (1901 - 1916)  (Nothing Known)
• Edgewood Park – Shamokin, PA –  MAP - (1905 - 1964)
• Eldora Park – Eldora (Charleroi), PA -  (1901 - 1940’s) [Declining attendance during the Depression and WW2]
• Fairview Park - Delmont, PA - (1945 - mid 1960s) [Blacks only park closed after integration allowed them to go elsewhere]
• Fernbrook Park – Dallas, PA – (1897 - 1947) [Couldn't compete with nearby amusement parks]
• Forest Park - Chalfont, PA - (1885 - 1964) [Park never recovered from 1958 race riot]
• Forest Park – Hanover, PA –  MAP (1932 - 1965 or 1906 - 1967) [Declining popularity after 1958 race riot]
• Four Mile Creek (Park) – Erie,  PA –   MAP (1902 - 1919) [Coaster destroyed by 1915 flood & park finally destroyed by fire]
• Hanson’s Amusement Park – Harvey’s Lake, PA –  (1935 - 1984) [After coaster closed in 1980, interest in the park waned]
• Harmarville Park - Blanox, PA - (1927 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Hazle Park – Hazelton, PA –   MAP (1892 - 1956) [Couldn't compete with larger parks withing driving distance]
• Hecla Park - Bellfonte, PA - (1894 - mid 1950s? )
• Hershey Park – Hershey, PA – (1907 - Present)   MAP
• Highland Park – West York, PA  - (1890s - 1921)
• Ideal Park – Johnstown, PA  -  (Nothing Known)
• Idlewild Park / Roseville Park – Sharon / Ligoner, PA  -  (1878 - Present)
• Indian Park – Montoursville, PA  - ( 1902 - 1924) [Became too costly to repair attractions from nearly yearly floods] 
• Indian Trail Park - Cherryville, PA - (1929 - 1984)
• Interurban Park - Pittsburgh, PA - (1904 - ? ) - (Nothing Known)
• Island Park [moved to become Bushkill Park] – Easton, PA  - (1894 - 1919) [Park badly damaged in 1919 flood]
• Island Park – Sunbury, PA – (1900 - early 1920's)
• Ivyside Park – Altoona, PA  - (1927 - 1945) [Closed due to Depression, wartime gas rationing & death of owner]
• Junction Park – New Brighton (or Beaver Falls) , PA – (1919 - ?)  MAP
• Kelly’s Hall – Philadelphia, PA  - (1889 - ?) (Nothing Known)
• Kennywood Park – West Mifflin, PA – (1898 - Present)   MAP
• Keystone Park – Sayre – (1906? - Present)
• Kishacoquillas Park – Lewistown, PA - ( 1920s - 1972)
• Knoebel’s Amusement Park – Elysburg, PA  - (1926 - Present)
• Lake Ariel Park – Lake Aerial / Scranton, PA – (1928 - 1955) [Park wrecked by a hurricane]
• Lake Ladore Park – Waymart, PA  - (1901 - 1918?)
• Lake Park – Harvey’s Lake, PA  - (Nothing Known)
• Lake Winola - PA - (Nothing Known)
• Lakemont Park / Boyertown – Altoona, PA – (1894 - Present)   MAP
• Lakeview Park – Royersford, PA – (1940s - 1988) (Nothing Known)
• Lakewood Park / Lakeside Park – Barnesville, PA –  (1916 - 1964)  
• Lakewood Park - Mahanoy City, PA - ( 1916 - 1984)
• Lenape Park - Kittanning, PA - (1905 - 1928 or 1899 - 1936?) (Nothing known)
• Lenape Park  / Mann Line Park – West Chester, PA – (1892 - 1976)
• Luna Park / Island Park – Johnstown, PA –  MAP (1905 - 1922)
• Luna Park (Ingersoll’s) – Pittsburgh, PA -  (1905 - 1909)  MAP [1909 Fire & competiton from Kennywood killed park]
• Luna Park – Scranton, PA – (1907 - 1916) [Park destroyed by a fire]
• Luna Park – Philadelphia, PA  - (Nothing Known)
• Manila Grove Park – Tamaqua, PA  - (1910? - ?) 
• Maple Grove Park – Lancaster, PA  - (Nothing Known)
• Maple View Park – Canonsburg / Washington, PA  - (1928 - 1930) (Nothing Known)
• Memorial Park – Williamsport, PA   -  (Nothing Known)
• Menlo Park – Perkesie, PA – (1891 - Today) [Only carousel remains]
• Millside Park - East Greenville, PA - (1930? - ? ) - (Nothing Known)
• Monarch Park – Oil City, PA – MAP (1896 - 1925) [Lack of interest after trolley service discontinued]
• Moosic Lake Park – Mount Cobb, PA – ( ? - 1925) [Dispute between park and owner of lake]
• Morado Park - Beaver Falls, PA - (1901 - 1937) [Depression and end of trolley service killed park]
• Mountain Park – Wilkes-Barre, PA – (1883 - 1914)
• Mt Gretna – Lebanon, PA - Kaufman Park / Laurel Park & Mt Grentna Park (1926 - early 1930s )
• National Amusement Park – Pittsburgh / Blawnox, PA  - (1928 - ?) (Nothing Known)
• Nay Aug Park – Scranton, PA  - (1918 - 1988?)
• Nela Beach Park - Altoona, PA - (1923 - ?)
• Neshaminy Falls Park – Bucks County, PA – (1876 - 1936) [Declining attendance during the Depression & automobile ownership]
• New Central Park - Lock Haven, PA - (1929 - ?) (Nothing Known)
• New Indian Amusement Park - Williamsport, PA - (1909 - ?) (Nothing Known)
• Newton Lake Park – Carbondale, PA – (1917 - 1976) [Park land purchased for $16,000,000 development project]
• Northern Electric Park – Scranton / Clark's Summit, PA (at Lake Winola) – (1910 - 1925) [Fire destroyed most of park]
• Oak Park – Lansdale, PA  -  (Nothing Known)
• Oakford Park – Jeanette / Greensburg, PA –  MAP
• Oakland Beach – Conneaut Lake, PA –  (Nothing Known)
• Oakland Park - Jeanette, PA - (1900? - 1970s) (Nothing Known)
• Oakwood Park – Crafton, PA  - (1896 - 1907) (Nothing Known) [Park flooded and never rebuilt]
• Olympia Park – McKeesport, PA - (1902 - 1942) 
• Ontelaunee Park - New Tropoli, PA - (1929 - 1988?) (Nothing Known)
• Paxtang Park – Harrisburg, PA – (1893-1929)  MAP {Closed at the begining of the Depression]
• Pendora Park – Reading , PA – (1907 - 1910) [Most of park destroyed in Jan 1911 and never reopened}
• Pen Mar Park – Waynesboro, PA – (1877 - 1942)  (Nothing Known)
• Perkins Park – Cambridge Springs, PA  -  (1912 - 1916) (Nothing Known)
• Pittsburgh Exposition Grounds - Pittsburgh, PA - MAP (1890 - 1915)
• Point Breeze Park – Philadelphia, PA – MAP (1912 - 1923) [Park sold to Pennsylvania Railroad to build a train yard]
• Rainbow Gardens - White City / McKeesport, PA - (1924 - 1968) [Park was in way of highway expansion which was never built]
• Ringing Rocks Park – Pottstown, PA –  MAP (1894 - 1932]
• Rock Point Park – Elwood City, PA – (1892 - 1911) [Fire destroyed park]
• Rocky Glen Park – Moosic, PA –  MAP (1904 - 1987) [Attendance declined with decline of coal industry]
• Rocky Springs Park – Lancaster, PA – (1890’s – 1965 & 1978 - 1983)
• Rolling Green Park – Sunbury / Sellingsgrove, PA  - (1908 - 1971) MAP [Hurricane Agnes extensively damaged park]
• Ross Grove Park - Aspinwall / Pittsburgh, PA - (1917 - 1920s) (Nothing Known)
• Sans Souci Park / Hanover Park /Hanover Grove – Nanticoke / Hanover, PA – (1902 - 1969)  MAP
• Sanatoga Park – Pottstown, PA – (1893 - 1937) MAP [Trolley service to park discontinued]
• Sandy Beach - Harvey's Lake, PA - (1925 - ?) (Nothing Known)
• Schuylkill Park / Dream City Park – Port Carbna / Pottsville, PA – MAP (Nothing Known)
• Shady Grove Park – Connellsville / Uniontown, PA  - (1885 - 1974) (Nothing Known)
• Shoholla Glen Amusement Park - Shohola, PA - (1882 - 1907)
• Southern Park – Carrick / Pittsburgh, PA - (1902? - 1910? )
• Sunset Park – Williamsport, PA  - (Nothing Known)
• Sylvan Dell Park – Williamsport, PA  - (Nothing Known)
• Toresdale Park - Torresdale / NE Philadelphia, PA   - (1880 – 1906)  (Nothing Known)
• Tumbling Run Park – Pottstown, PA  - (late 1890s - 1912)
• Twin Grove Park - Pine Grove, PA - (1930 - Present)
• Valley View Park  / Valley Park – Scranton, PA – (1912 - 1923) [Trolley service to park discontinued]
• Waldameer Beach – Erie, PA – (1896 - Present)  MAP
• Weist’s Amusement Park – Sunbury, PA - (1900 - 1946?) 
• West Point Park – West Point/ North Wales, Montgomery County, PA –
• Westview Park – Pittsburgh, PA – (1906-1977)  MAP [Declining attendance, increased operating costs & no new rides to compete with Kennywood]
• White City  / Chestnut Hill Park? – Gleaside/ Philadelphia, PA  - (1898 - 1911)
• White City / Schuylkill Park – Pottsville, PA  - (1906 - ? )(Nothing Known)
• White Rose Park – York, PA – (? - 1936) MAP [Depression era bankruptcy]
• White Swan Park - Swickley, PA - (1955 - 1989) [Land needed for highway expansion]
• William’s Grove Amusement Park – Mechanicsburg, PA – (1850 - 2005)
• Willow Grove Park – Willow Grove, PA – (1896 -1975)  MAP [1970 conversion to western theme park failed]
• Willow Mill Park – Mechanicsburg, PA – ( 1889 - 1972) [Park severely damaged by Hurricane Agnes& high insurance costs]
• Wolfe's Park - Seet Valley, PA at Sylvan Lake - (1933 - 1965)
• Woodland Park - Ashland, PA - (1892 - 1929)
• Woodside Park – Philadelphia, PA – (1897 - 1955)  MAP
• Zieber’s Park / West Point Park – Lansdale, PA  -  (1867 - 1988 )