The Golden Nugget lives on as the Black Diamond at Knoebels. You Wildwood residents should consider coming to reunite with it. It's a wonderful park for all ages with world class coasters and old school rides. Best of all it's free admission and just pay as you go. You'll love it.

I have made a virtual Golden Nugget in Planet Coaster. I’m attempting to build a virtual Dinosaur Beach circa 1996 as well as the three Morey’s Piers and what used to be Nickels Midway Pier with Castle Dracula. Castle Dracula burned down Jan 16, 2002. Most of it collapsed to the ground, only the front gate and the stands/games on the side were standing after the fire. Two minors were arrested by a nearby officer after they ran out and down to the street. The distance between piers is not to scale as there isn’t enough room. I left out Sportland Pier due to lack of room. It was basically go-karts and the shuttered Dr. Blood’s House of Horror 2 level dark ride by the 90’s anyway. But in the 60’s, 70’s to 1983 it was full of mostly imported rides. In 1984 Ted Snyder bought it and the rides sat rotting away for the rest of the 1980’s then most were removed and go-kart tracks built by 1992.

This was the ride that got me interested in exploring abandoned mines! We used to go to Wildwood every summer for a week in June and I remember riding this back in the mid to late 1970s. It really was a spectacular ride and unique. The later additions of the dinosaurs, crashed helicopter, and things like that kind of ruined the old western theme and made it somewhat visually jarring. Not too far from this ride on the other side of the pier was the Whacky Shack. Another great dark ride! I used to ride that too as a kid - it was my favorite ride on the pier! Always have been a big fan of dark rides and haunted houses. And horror movies.

This ride lives on as Black Diamond at Knoebels

This was my favorite ride. It's wonderful that someone made and posted a movie of it. With adult eyes, it is really creative and must have cost a fortune to build.

That was my favorite ride growing up back in the 60'S and 70's, thanks for the memories 💖

Thanks for sharing the memories I can still smell the place 😂

You posting this is a true gift. Thank you for the flashback.

This n the escape from dinosaur beach ride were the classics

I rode the Nugget that year and 1998, as well as 1982-1983. I have vid on tape from June 1998 riding it. Now it operates again at Knoebel's which is 70 miles northwest of me. I live near Dorney Park.

i can almost smell the old grease. thank you for posting ❤

I just relived my childhood with this! Thanks for posting it!

Thanks so much for posting this. This video is a true rarity seeing the Golden Nugget in its Dinosaur Beach stage since that was only that way for a brief time

A lot of things are different from what I remember from the early 80's but the track is the same. Great ride.

I made it a point to ride the Golden Nugget and go through Castle Dracula and Dungeon several times in June 1996 and 1998 because I knew they wouldn't last forever. At least Golden Nugget was rebuilt at Knoebel's. I rode this a week before June 23, 1996. They basically "Dinoized" it, adding dinosaurs to the scenes and the storyline was that you were archeologists on an expidition to find dinosaur fossils and you boarded mine carts to explore an abandoned mine and were ambushed by dinosaurs. The Escape from Dinosaur Beach dark ride, which was built on the former sites of Whacky Shack and Jungleland, was a decent ride. There were so many new things in Wildwood in 1996, including Great White on Morey's Wild Wheels Pier (former Fun Pier). The former Hunt's Pier in August 1995 was half shut with a wall across the pier, and kiddie rides on the front. The Golden Nugget, Log Flume, Rapids, and Hunt's Horror/former Whacky Shack were SBNO. The Hunt's Horror was pushed into a dumpster early 1996, but the props had been removed and were put into storage somewhere in Wildwood.

Memories of me on this with Mom in the 80s

Back again, what an incredible, brilliant, amazingly designed ride. .

I use to keep my eyes closed almost the whole time when I use to get on except when we were outside. LOL I miss the good ole days! This was a gem in Willdwood NJ.

Seems like the Golden Nugget always had the longest lines. It seemed cool in the 60s & 70s. Hunts Pier was the best back then.

The greatest ride ever!