Hamel's Amusement Park

Hamel's Amusement Park was for almost 20 years the only amusement park located in the state of Louisiana, USA. Located in Shreveport, it was relatively small and yet hugely popular. People from across the state would visit its giant ferris wheel or its large, wooden roller coaster. The park fell into hard times in the late 1990's when a tornado literally bent their ferris wheel in half, and in 1999 it closed permanently. The Hamel family is one of the wealthiest and best known of Louisiana, rivaled only by The Copelands in wealth.