Willow Grove Park was an
amusement park located in
Willow Grove, Pennsylvania (the part which is in
Abington Township),
United States, that operated for eighty years from 1896 until the 1975 season. It was generally an alternative to the
Woodside Amusement Park in
Fairmount Park until its closure. The park operated under the name
Six Gun Territory from 1972. After closure, announced in April 1976, the park sat vacant until the land was cleared for a large shopping mall known as
Willow Grove Park Mall, which opened in August 1982. The mall pays homage to its predecessor by displaying banners and other objects which hark back to the land's days as an amusement park; a
merry-go-round built and installed in 2001 operates within the mall.