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Palisades Amusement Park
Palisades Amusement Park has closed (last season: 1971). This page covers its history and the rides it had.
- Location
- Cliffside Park, New Jersey
- Opened
- 1898
- Closed
- 1971
- Rides listed
- 0
Rides it had
No rides listed for Palisades Amusement Park yet.
Palisades Amusement Park closed on September 12, 1971, after developer Winston-Centex bought the land earlier that year. Its rides were sold and dismantled, and high-rise apartment buildings now stand on the site on the Palisades cliffs.
Sources
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisades_Amusement_Park (38-acre park on the Palisades straddling Cliffside Park and Fort Lee, Bergen County, NJ; opened 1898 as The Park on the Palisades (Bergen County Traction Company); Schenck brothers from 1910; Rosenthal brothers from 1934-35; sold to Winston-Centex January 1971 for $12.5 million; closed September 12, 1971; rides sold; site now high-rise apartments; salt-water pool from 1912; two Cyclones.)
- rcdb.com/5335.htm (RCDB park page: Palisades Amusement Park, Cliffside Park, New Jersey, defunct; opened 1898 by the Bergen County Trolley Company; 16 defunct roller coasters (Figure 8, Lake Placid Bobsled, Skyrocket, Toboggan Racer, Big Scenic Railway, Comet, two Cyclones, two Giant Coasters, Wild Mouse, Love Bugs, Broadway Trip, Jet Star, Wildcat, Virginia Reel); no years given.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(Palisades_Amusement_Park) (First Cyclone 1927-1934, Harry Traver; second Cyclone 1945-1971, Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, built partly from the remains of the Skyrocket, closed with the park in 1971.)
- rcdb.com/4001.htm (Second Cyclone: Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, designer Herbert Paul Schmeck, removed; its trains were reused on the Zipper at Williams Grove, which took the Cyclone name.)
- rcdb.com/3034.htm (Wildcat (Schwarzkopf Wildcat / 54m): Palisades, then Pirate's World, Bell's Amusement Park, and Jolly Roger Amusement Park (as Avalanche); removed.)