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 the year 1999 it closed permanently. The Hamel family is one of the wealthiest and most well known of Louisiana, rivaled only by
The Copelands[?] in wealth.