| Pleasure Island | |
|---|---|
| Location | Borger, Texas, USA |
| Opened | 1960s |
| Closed | 1980s |
| Area | Less than 1/2 a city block |
| Rides | 7 total |
Pleasure Island was an amusement park located on South Main Street, between Huber Park and Huber Baseball Field in Borger, Texas .
Pleasure Island was built in the early 1960s with rides geared for young children. When it first opened, the park included a small dike-contained pond which featured plywood constructed paddle boats, an 18-hole miniature golf course, a merry-go-round, kiddie car and airplane rides, a hand-crank tracked rail ride and a small train that carried guests around the circumference of the park. Pleasure Island was a fun place to take the kids, eat cotton candy and popcorn and spend time as a family. Pleasure Island was open evenings and weekends.
The park was built and opened in the by a petroleum engineer, who opened it as more of a hobby than as a profit making venture. It was surrounded by Huber Park to the southwest and by Huber Baseball Field to the northeast
The park's name changed in the 1980s in a contest to give the park a new name; "One Flag Over Borger" was picked as a parody of the much larger "Six Flags Over Texas" in Arlington.
Today Pleasure Island is just a memory. The last remaining parts were removed and the area black-topped and now is a free RV parking area called "Huber Park Free RV Park."
A local collector owned the peddle cars and airplanes, but all were sold to other collectors. Several peddle cars and planes eventually found a home in a restaurant in near-by Amarillo, Texas called "All the Fixin's," which is now closed.
Rides:
Attractions:
18 Hole Miniature Golf Coarse, Hazzards: A Steep Hill and A Dutch Windmill