Sunflower Amusement Park

The Sunflower Amusement Park is located in Palmdale adjacent to the Santa Brundle Boardwalk. It features several roller coasters along with other small rides.

The infamous Sunflower Amusement Park was opened in 1904, after a period of huge development in Springwood. It was the main tourist attraction for the city at the time and attracted well over 300,000 visitors in its first year. However, in 1946, an incident at the park forced resulted in 8 people losing their lives. The amusement park was forced to close its gates to the public the next year. However, in 1951, a wealthy investor re-branded the park and re-opened the amusement park to guests the same year. Unfortunately, the accident took its toll on Sunflower amusement park and it never fully recovered from that point onward. The land on which the Sunflower Amusement Park is located on was brought by Charles Ed Acker- CEO of Pan American Airways- in 1985 and the park is expected to be closed and demolished next year (1989), with a flight attendant training centre taking its place.