Casino Pier

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Casino Pier

Casino Pier as seen from the south prior to Hurricane Sandy
Location Seaside Heights, New Jersey, United States
Coordinates 39°56′33″N 74°04′09″W / 39.9426°N 74.0692°W / 39.9426; -74.0692Coordinates: 39°56′33″N 74°04′09″W / 39.9426°N 74.0692°W / 39.9426; -74.0692
Owner Casino Pier
Opened 1932
Closed Partially Closed Because of Hurricane Sandy
Operating season Year-round
Rides
Total 38
Roller coasters 4
Website www.casinopiernj.com
Casino Pier just after Hurricane Sandy

Casino Pier is an amusement park situated on a pier, in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, United States. Casino Pier was partially destroyed, and indefinitely closed, on October 29, 2012, after part of the pier collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean due to the storm surge generated by Hurricane Sandy.[1] Despite this, park management successfully rebuilt the pier's lower deck, and re-opened with limited rides in July 2013. Before the storm, the pier extended approximately 300 feet (100 meters) into the Atlantic Ocean, from the narrow strip of the Barnegat Peninsula (approx. 6 blocks) in which Seaside Heights is situated.

Facilities

Casino Pier is an amusement facility center composed of numerous rides, games, and concession stands. Before the hurricane, there were 38 rides on the pier, ranging from family rides to roller coasters; other attractions include a rooftop miniature golf course, a chairlift that ran the length of the Seaside Height's boardwalk north of Casino Pier, a figure 8 Go-Kart track, and numerous concession stands which serve typical boardwalk fare (pizza, cheese steaks, sausage sandwiches, ice cream, funnel cake, and lemonade).

Located in the Casino Pier Arcade, between the boardwalk and Ocean Terrace is the historic antique carousel. The arcade also houses the Pier Grille, a restaurant. The arcade features numerous arcade games, including claw and pusher redemption games, many popular video games, as well as classic arcade offerings such as Skee-Ball, pinball, and video poker.

The pier itself also featured several games. Some are games of chance, such as spinning wheels, but more often, the games involved a rudimentary amount of skill, such as a ring toss, basketball shoot, and Ladder Climb.

Although most of Casino Pier's offerings have been on on the pier itself, additional Casino Pier recreational and concessional areas are located on the boardwalk between Grant Avenue and Sherman Avenue. Casino Pier owns a water park across the street, Breakwater Beach, which was remodeled in 2003 from the original Water Works water park that once stood on the property. Breakwater Beach incorporates numerous water slides with a heavy focus on families. Breakwater Beach has undergone several phases of reconstruction, and several slides have been rebuilt.

Roller coasters

  • Hot Tamale
  • Pirates Hideaway
  • Jet Star (demolition of the ride, which fell into ocean during Hurricane Sandy, occurred on May 14, 2013[2])
  • Wild Mouse

Other rides

Indoor Scrambler ride
  • Music Express
  • Enterprise
  • Disk-O
  • Centrifuge (indoor Scrambler with lights and music)
  • Stillwalk Manor (Dark ride)
  • Kite Flyer
  • Bumper Cars
  • Dizzy Dragons (Sellner)
  • Tornado
  • Skyscraper
  • Wave Swinger
  • Mardi Gras Fun House
  • Moby Dick
  • Speedway
  • Pirate's Island
  • Go-Karts
  • Sky Ride
  • Rock N Roll
  • Log Flume
  • Tilt-A-Whirl
  • Fun House
  • Mardi Gras - glass house with slide at the end
  • Jungle Safari Train
  • Super Storm

References

The Jet Star Roller Coaster from Casino Pier a week before demolition, Seaside Heights, New Jersey
  1. ↑ "Sandy damages Casino Pier in Seaside". APP.com. Retrieved October 31, 2012. 
  2. ↑ "Demolition to begin on NJ coaster wrecked by Sandy". Associated Press. May 14, 2013. Retrieved May 14, 2013. 

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