Pacific Park, Amusement park on Santa Monica Pier, US.

Pacific Park is a 2-acre amusement park on the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California, facing the Pacific Ocean toward Santa Catalina Island. Its rides stand on the pier deck: the solar-powered Pacific Wheel, an 85-foot Ferris wheel with purple, yellow and orange gondolas; the orange Pacific Plunge drop tower bearing "PACIFIC PARK" in yellow letters; and the West Coaster, a 55-foot steel coaster with yellow track and blue supports that runs around the park's perimeter.

Santa Monica Municipal Pier opened in 1909 to carry sewer pipes beyond the breakers. In 1916 Charles I. D. Looff, builder of Coney Island's first carousel, began an adjacent amusement pier, the Pleasure Pier or Newcomb Pier, which thrived in the 1920s and faded during the Depression. After demolition plans were revoked in 1973 and the city took ownership in 1974, the Pier Restoration Corporation pushed a year-round commercial scheme, and the current 2-acre park opened on 25 May 1996.

The park's mascot, Inkie, a cartoon octopus, names several children's rides such as Inkie's Frog Hopper and Inkie's Sea Planes. The park has appeared in over 500 films and television shows, including Bean and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in the video game Grand Theft Auto V as Pleasure Pier.

The park is non-gated and sits directly over the water on the Santa Monica Pier, so you can walk in from the pier deck at any point. Rides charge individually rather than by admission. The Seaside Pavilion, opened in 2009, is the park's event space for corporate and private bookings.

The Pacific Wheel's original 20-gondola version was sold on eBay, with half the proceeds donated to the Special Olympics, and it appeared in Steven Spielberg's film 1941. The current wheel measures 85 feet (26 m) across, and the vantage point at the top sits more than 130 feet (40 m) above the pier.