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CLEMENTON PARK
& Splash World
New Jersey
(Purchased by Gene Staples in 2021)
Owned By: IB Parks and Entertainment

Park News - (9/10/2026) Sad news for fans of Clementon Park as the park has announced online that after reopening and running for the past 5 seasons under IB Parks & Entertainment, after just finishing the 2026 season they have made the hard choice to close down the park once again. IB Parks & Entertainment has confirmed that they will be putting the park up for sale, but this does not mean that it will reopen again as a theme park, as technically any developer could buy the property to repurpose it for any other use as well.
    For IB Parks and Entertainment, who rose during the COVID Pandemic to purchase and rescue a number of small parks that had failed, this is actually the second park that they’ve had to announce as shutting down once again. In April or this year they also confirmed that they would be unable to reopen Niagara Amusement Park for the 2026 season. This happened just weeks out from when that park was expected to opened for the season, and after they had already sold 2026 season passes that had to be refunded. In the case of Niagara Amusement Park, they did not announce that the park was closed for good, but did state that “attendance and revenue levels in recent seasons were not sufficient to sustain operating costs and the continued investment required to rebuild the park.”
    While Niagara was in sad shape when they opted to try and revive it (almost all rides and attractions had been removed by then), Clementon Park was purchased at auction just after it had shut down with the rides and park infrastructure still intact. We’ll have to wait and see what becomes of Clementon Park, or if they intent to relocate any attractions they seem worth saving to Indiana Beach which they still own, or send anything to Lake Winnepesaukah which I believe they are just operating under a management contract.

 
    (9/7/2026) A quick updates just to say that the Hellcat wooden coaster also sat closed for the 2026 season as well. So the ride has not run in the past 4 seasons.
    (3/3/2025) So what’s going on at Clementon Park with the Hellcat? The park’s signature wooden coaster that was added in 2004 from S&S has been going through some tough times. The entire park closed entirely at the end of the 2019 season and all rides sat silently for 2020 and 2021, but when IB Parks reopened the park in 2022, the Hellcat did run that season.
    Unfortunately Hellcat has sat silent ever since, not open for guests in 2023 or 2024, and from what I’m hearing it may be closed for all of 2025 as well. The official word from the park’s website is that Hellcat is closed for refurbishment. What form this refurbishment will take could will have to be decided this season however if they want to bring it back for 2026. One rumor is that they may be eyeballing various kinds of replacement track concepts, including hybrid options. Anyone know more?

2027 - PARK IS CLOSED AND NOT EXPECTED TO REOPEN UNLESS A NEW OWNER IS FOUND