Lakeside Amusement Park

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For the former park in Salem, Virginia, see Lakeside Amusement Park (Salem, Virginia)

Lakeside Amusement Park is an amusement park in Lakeside, Colorado near Denver. It was opened in 1908 as a popular amusement resort spearheaded by prominent Denver brewer Adolph Zang, and popularly nicknamed the White City for its glittering original display of over 100,000 lights. Today it is one of the oldest amusement parks in the nation, and the oldest in Colorado in its original location. The park, comprising nearly the entirety of the Town of Lakeside that it was responsible for creating in 1907, features the landmark Tower of Jewels. Lakeside is located northwest of downtown Denver at 4601 Sheridan Boulevard adjacent to Lake Rhoda. As of 2000, the park was family owned [1]. The park's featured rides include:

The Cyclone, a wooden roller coaster first operational in 1940 [2].
The Wild Chipmunk, a Wild Mouse roller coaster
Lake-circling miniature gauge train featuring the steam train locomotives "Puffing Billy" and "Whistling Tom" from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair along with the world's first miniature gauge diesel locomotive, patterned after the California Zephyr.
Original carousel, built in 1908 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company.

In the video game, "Silent Hill," Lakeside Amusement Park is the secret location of The Hope House, an orphanage run by a cult called The Order. This park is also defined by a landmark tower.