Defunct Amusemt Parks - North America

For some reason I can imagine someone downloading this file and then mistakenly thinking it's for active amusement parks. And then they go on vacation and arrive at a boarded up amusement park (sorta like National Lampoon's Vacation)!

LOL. I was thinking the same thing.

Will we have so much fun we'll whistle Zippitty Doo Da?

Roseland amusement park in Canandaigua NY (north shore of the lake) operated from 1925 to 1985.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseland_Park

Now this bring back memories. The Miracle Strip Amusement Park was in full force before the big build up on the Emerald Coast. Our first visits were in the late 60's and early 70's. It was lots of fun!

I knew a couple of closed parks I didn't think would have made the list. Not only were they there, but I found a couple of others that are now closed that I thought were still operational.

My wife really enjoyed the National Lampoons reference. She's a big movie buff.

I will add the Roseland Park when I convert it to a gpx file.

Thanks for the help.

...was in Bethesda, MD and is not listed at all. It closed in the mid-60's after the riots. It re-opened, sorta, as a cultural place to go with art boutiques or some such there now. But in its heyday, my youth, it was a great place for hot summer days.

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I sent Miss POI the Sound Files for this discussion and POI. there are four two Male and two Female, in both MP3 and Wav formats.

I plan on converting this file to GPX as soon as I get some time. Farming season began so I have been putting in 12+ hour days.

I didn't look up the coordinates, and didn't see this one in the csv file you posted. The park was Bertrand's Island in Mt. Arlington, NJ - on the shore of Lake Hopatcong. I went there many times as a kid. A great description is provided at this link for the town of Landing, NJ. Enjoy!

http://www.landingnewjersey.com/bertrand.htm

I try to get it added when I convert it to gpx.

Remember Bertrand Island as a kid in the 50's. When the reference to the old amusements parks was posted, I looked it up but didn't find it. Unfortunately I couldn't remember the name. Glad to see it will be added to the POI file.

If you were from New England I'm sure you will remember Benson's Wild Animal Farm, it was a long-running private zoo and amusement park in Hudson, New Hampshire. 1924 - 1987 I worked there for many years.

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There was "Legend City", located (33.44648, -111.95758) between Phoenix and Tempe, and operated from about 1963 to 1983.

http://www.legend-city.com/

I clearly remember the wooden roller coaster, the Lost River flume ride and 'nickel nights'...

Have been back to the area in the last year or so and the island is now all condominiums....but the memories are still fresh!

old friend. Opryland in Nashville. I used to go there several times during the summer. It was torn down several years ago and the site is now a mall. SOO SAD!

That's the one that got me started in the first place. I was reading about it on Wikipedia and then that's how I found the list.

In a very rare occurrence for the amusement park industry, CLP reopened for 2009 after having been closed for two years. It is no longer defunct. See http://www.conneautlakepark.com/news.html

I was there a few years ago and the carousel was still operating. I think what is left is now a national park.

Revere Beach (est. 1896), in Revere MA. This was a strip of 3.5 miles of amusements, hotels and food. Two US Presidents stayed there. The Congress has recognized it as the first Public Beach in the US. I grew up 1 mile from it and spent many days and nights there. Kelly's Roast Beef is still open (est. around 1956) and has been featured on the Food Channel. This was the beach that I introduced my girlfriend to underwater submarine racing. All that is left is a few food places.

While this park with its legendary roller coaster closed before I was old enough to go or even have memories of it, I still run across people who remember it fondly.

Here's a website devoted to its history http://westparkhistory.com/PuritasSprings/PuritasSprings.htm

I do remember going to Euclid Beach Park and Geauga Lake Park, both also closed now, but I see that wikipedia already has them listed so you probably have them as well.

I downloaded this file a while back, and my whole family wasted a whole weekend trying to go to a couple of these amusement parks, but the ones we visited were closed!! They looked like they had been closed for a very long time!! This POI file is in real need of an update!!

If you mean the file of the OP.Here is what he stated.

I created a POI containing all the amusement parks that are no longer open in North America. I got the list off of Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_amusement_parks).

GadgetGuy2008 should go into Fortune Telling!

Thanks for calling this file to attention. It should be a fun one to have pop up. I'd miss these otherwise.

I downloaded this great file for my Garmin, and when I try to load it via the poi loader from Garmin, it says there is a data format error on line 12. It loaded everything up to what it says in an error point. I have looked at the file in notepad and there is nothing I found. I loaded it in excel just for seeing what it calls line 12. I sure would like to get this working. Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks..

but I couldn't find the error. This really needs to be in a GPX format due to the enormous notes involved. If you convert it to gpx as I did, it will work. Use EPE.

Thanks, I had not thought of that. Gonna give it a try. BTW, there are a couple that I know of that are not in the list. I will gather some info and post it. One is Glen Echo Park in Maryland, and the other is Marshal Hall in Md. I spent some time at both of those as a youngster...

I converted it as you suggested and it works perfectly. Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.

Owned by the Boyce brothers, who also owned a trucking company. The company was located where Shepard Ford use to have their car lot (right side just as one started down the pier).

Also, the original merry go round at Roseland was bought and completely reconditioned.. and now is located on the second floor of the food court at Carousel Mall.

I rode on it many times as a kid when it was in Canadaigua.. and a couple of times as a adult while at the mall.

Here's a link to it..

http://www.carouselcenter.com/index.php?page=information

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Thanks "Pwohlrab". You sure did bring back memories when you mentioned Roseland. If we could only.......

And they brought back Roseland, but as a waterpark. Further north across 5 & 20. Very watered down. A waterpark only. They are suffering with attendance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseland_Waterpark