[1] Known as the "Wonderland of the Pacific Northwest", Lotus Isle was located just east of the more successful Jantzen Beach Amusement Park.

The park consisted of forty attractions including bumper cars, a rollercoaster, and a dance hall called the Peacock Ballroom.

[3] On August 28, 1930, an eleven-year-old boy drowned at the Lotus Isle beach after slipping from a ladder beneath the park's main diving board.

[3] During this time, John Ringling sold Lotus Isle a temperamental bull elephant named "Tusko" who soon destroyed several pavilions after being spooked by a low-flying stunt plane.

[8] The elephant, which had previously rampaged through Sedro-Woolley, Washington, eventually ended up in Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo.