I miss this place so much. Every year my family would drive all the way from Salisbury, North Carolina to Lakeside in Virginia. My childhood memories will always include this small amusement park.

I loved going to Lakeside when I was growing up. I have so many great memories, and was so sad when they closed down.

Went there many times as a kid took 20 minutes to walk there trimmed hedges mowed yards to go there with my friends good ole days!

What great memories of growing up and the thrill as a kid going to lakeside, sorry kids nowadays don't enjoy the simple life we had as kids and young adults

I still have a promo poster/program of Lakeside from sometime between 84-86 that I used to LOVE looking at over and over again, thinking of all of the fun id had there and counting the days til we could go back. I remember being devastated by the flood and having no concept of it ever opening again, then sure enough, it did and was just as fun, and then as it quickly as it opened, it was gone again for good. The last time we went was with my aunt, uncle and cousins who were visiting from Chicago. It seemed like another world but looking back it was less than an hour away and I can't believe we didn't go more often. I remember doing the same thing with Ocean Lakes, Myrtle Beach maps, programs from baseball games, Ringling Bros/Barnum+baily circus, Kazim circus and other such things. Those programs seemed like magic as a kid.

We went to lakeside every summer in the 60s and 70s. We were tobacco farmers and lived about an hour and a half away. It was truly a magical place that I will never forget. Loved the putt putt golf course and the windmill on the last hole.

MY Grandma uses to take us to Lakeside in the 60's

Loved this place.

I remember that small area with skee ball! It looked like something straight out of the 1930's or 1940's.

Went there many times. Good ole days.

I went there every weekend my family drove us 30 minutes away so we could have fun

My parents took my sister and I a couple of times back in the seventies

My mom took me there for my 5th Birthday in '86. It closed a month later. 😥

That was a sad sad day. Some body needs to open another amusement park.

I've in salem and went to lakeside many times from 71 to 73 or 4 and went to east salem

Looks like this was maybe the WDBJ7/NEWS7 story on the closing since that is Keith Humphry narrating.

I enjoyed taking my girlfriends up here between 1972-1974.

Man that train ride through the woods used to scare the crap outa me..🤣 every summer was special .......

Was there around 1974..

Was my first roller coaster ride.