LOST AMUSEMENT PARKS

VIRGINA, WEST VIRGINIA & WASHINGTON D.C. - AMUSEMENT PARKS

• Arlington Beach Park – Washington, DC  - (1923 - 1929) [Closed for airport expansion]
• Beach Park - West Point, VA - (Nothing Known)
• Buckroe Beach Amusement Park – Hampton, VA – (1897 -1985 or 1915 - 1985 )  MAP
• Butler Amusement Park -Washington, DC - (1929 - 1952) (Nothing Known)
• Camden Park – Huntington, W.VA – (1902 – Present)  MAP
• City Park - Clifton Forge, VA - (1907 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Colonial Beach, VA - ( ? - 1933) [Destroyed by hurricane]
• Coney Island - Wheeling, W.VA (1906? - 1910?) [Built on island on Ohio River - suffered flood damage and closed several seasons later]
• Edgewood Park - Charleston, W VA - (1906 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Electric Park / West End Park – Forest Hill, VA - (? – 1932) (Nothing Known)
• Ferndale Park - Petersburg, VA - (Nothing Known)
• Forest Hill Park – Richmond, VA – ( 1880 - 1932)  MAP [Financial difficulties during the Depression]
• Fun Fair Amusement Park – Falls Church, VA -  (1957 - ?) (Nothing Known)
• Glenwood Park – Charleston, W VA  -  (1913 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Idlewood Amusement Park – Richmond, VA – (1906-1908)
• Joyland Park - Dupont City, W VA - (1955 - ? )
• Lake Shawnee Park - Princeton, W.VA - (1926 - 1946 & 1985 - 1988) [Park land haunted by deaths & built atop Indian burial ground]
• Lakemont Park – Petersburg, VA  -  (Nothing Known)
• Lakeside Park – Richmond, VA  -   (1896 - 1933)
• Lakeside Park – Salem / Roanoke, VA – (1920 - 1985) [After Nov 1985 flood, owners couldn't aford to repair damage]
• Luna Park / Washington Luna Park - Arlington, VA -  (1906 - 1915) [Fire destroyed park]
• Luna Park – Charleston, W.VA –  (1912 - 1923) [Fire destroyed park]
• Luna Park – Four-Mile-Run, VA – (1906 - 1915)
• Luna Park - Wheeling, W VA - (1924 - ? ) (Nothing Known - announced in Billboard but was it built?)
• Mountain Park – Roanoke, VA  - (Nothing Known)
• Mozart Park – Wheeling, W VA – (1893 - 1918) [Changing tastes and WW1 killed the park]
• Oak Park - Masontown / Morgantown - W. VA - (1908 - 1930) [Decline of coal industry & Great Depression killed park]
• Ocean View Park – Norfolk, VA – MAP (1905 - 1978) [Couldn't compete with Busch Gardens, Williamsbug. Park became unprofitable - sold to the city]
• Pine (Piney) Branch Park – Norfolk, VA  - MAP  (1907 only) [Adjacent to 1907 Jamestown Exposition]
• Riverview Amusement Park – Lynchburg, VA – (1963 - 1985) [Flood destroyed park]
• Rock Springs Park – Chester, W. VA – (1897 - 1970)   MAP [Razed to widen US Route 30 & build bridge acroos Ohio River]]
• Rosemont Park - Martinsburg, W. VA - (Nothing known)
• Seaside Park - Virginia Beach, VA - (1912 - 1940s) [Couldn't compete with Ocean View Park]
• Sea View Beach - Norfolk, VA - ( ? - 1964) - Black only park closed after integration because they could go to Ocean View Park]
• Suburban Gardens Park – Washington, DC  - (1921 - 1940)
• Terrapin Park – Parkersburg, W. VA –  MAP (1900 - 1917) [Park burned in an arson fire - Sept 1917]
• Union Park - Bluefield, W VA - (Nothing Known)
• Virginia Beach Park – Virginia Beach, VA   - (Nothing Known)
• West Virginia State Fairgrounds / State Fair Park – Wheeling, W. VA  - (Early 1918 - 1940) [Declined after 1936 flood destroyed roller coaster]
• Wheeling Park – W. VA – (1901 - 1922) [Public's changing taste in amusements]