3000 Mission Blvd., San Diego, California. County/parish: San Diego.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 27, 1978. NRIS 78000753.
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Giant Dipper, also known as the Mission Beach Roller Coaster, and historically by other names, is a historical wooden roller coaster located in Belmont Park, a small amusement park in the Mission Beach area of San Diego, California. Built-in 1925, it and its namesake at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk are the only remaining wooden roller coasters on the West Coast designed by noted roller coaster designers Frank Prior and Frederick Church, and the only one whose construction they supervised. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860925