Why did Palisades close?
By the mid-1960s, Palisades had become one of the most popular and most visited amusement parks in the country. The crowds that headed to the park each summer was more than the small New Jersey communities could handle. In 1967, the town of Cliffside Park (one of the towns in which Palisades was located) rezoned the land for high rise development. This brought many lucrative offers from land developers for the park’s owner, who by this time was in his 70s. He eventually sold the land to the Winston-Centex corporation for over $12 million.
