Cliff's Amusement Park, Family amusement park in Albuquerque, United States
Cliff's Amusement Park is an amusement and water park on Osuna Road NE in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It holds 25 rides, plus food stands and carnival games, and its WaterMania water park. The New Mexico Rattler, a wooden roller coaster, is among the rides.
The park opened in 1959 and grew from a small local attraction into a major regional recreational destination. Over the decades, new rides and facilities were added to expand the experience.
The park's name traces the family behind it: Cliff and Zella Hammond opened Uncle Cliff's Kiddieland in 1959, and the site became Uncle Cliff's Familyland in 1963 and Uncle Cliff's Amusement Park in the 1980s. Their daughter and son-in-law took over management in 1974, and Cliff Hammond died in 2013.
The park sits at 4800 Osuna Road NE on Albuquerque's outskirts, and its WaterMania water park runs from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. The park closed for the whole of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and reopened the next year.
The New Mexico Rattler is the only wooden roller coaster in New Mexico and the last coaster designed by Custom Coasters International. It opened at Cliff's Amusement Park in Albuquerque.
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