Woodcliff Pleasure Park
Woodcliff Pleasure Park has closed (last season: 1941). This page covers its history and the rides it had.
- Location
- Poughkeepsie, New York
- Opened
- 1927
- Closed
- 1941
- Rides listed
- 0
Rides it had
No rides listed for Woodcliff Pleasure Park yet.
Woodcliff Pleasure Park was an amusement park on the former Winslow estate above the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, New York, that opened on June 20, 1927 and closed in August 1941. After a riot at the park on August 10, 1941, it was shut for repairs and never reopened; its rides were dismantled, and its Blue Streak roller coaster came down in 1942. The grounds are now the northern part of the Marist College campus.
Sources
- hudsonrivervalley.org/documents/d/guest/woodcliff_riots_mcha... (Hudson River Valley Institute paper (Daniel McHale, 2015): park occupied the northern section of today's Marist College campus between 1927 and 1941, 27 acres on the former Winslow estate; bought by Fred Ponty in 1927 and announced open June 20, 1927; Blue Streak designed by Vernon Keenan; large outdoor pool and ballroom; riot on August 10, 1941; park shut for repairs and never reopened; rides dismantled and Blue Streak taken down in 1942.)
- rcdb.com/5520.htm (RCDB: Woodcliff Pleasure Park, Poughkeepsie, NY, defunct; two defunct wooden coasters, Blue Streak and Twister.)
- rcdb.com/2581.htm (Blue Streak: wooden coaster, removed; 0 inversions; builder Harry C. Baker; designers Vernon Keenan and Joseph A. McKee.)