In 1908, the trolley company sold the park to August Neumann and Frank Knox, who hired Alven H. Dexter to manage it.

Dexter imported a crude assortment of attractions which included a Ferris wheel, a baby parade,[clarification needed] and diving horses.

Behind the water falls were huge pontoons that rose up and down as they rotated, creating a one-foot wave in the pool.

They also owned some concessions and a carousel at Savin Rock Amusement Park in West Haven, Connecticut.

One of the many attractions, rebuilt and redesigned by construction superintendent Joe McKee, was the Skyrocket roller coaster.

In 1958, Joe built the Wild Mouse roller coaster with his construction foreman Bert Whitworth,.

In the mid-1950s the park started featuring rock and roll shows, hosted by local radio announcers Clay Cole and "Cousin Brucie" Morrow.

Advertisements for the park were frequently printed in the back pages of 1950s and 1960s comic books, along with clip-out coupons, good for one free ride on a specific attraction.

In response, African Americans started protesting against the Palisades Amusement Park pool's segregation policy.

As a result, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) started protesting at the Palisades Amusement Park entrance.

Palisades Pool, in violation of the New Jersey Civil Rights Law, bars Negroes and persons with dark skins.

Irving Rosenthal, the Park's owner, refused to cease racial discrimination, although it violates the New Jersey law.

Members of our interracial group who tried peacefully to gain admittance to the pool have been manhandled by the Park's private guards and by Fort Lee police.

Irving Rosenthal, who loved children even though he had none of his own, allowed this "secret" entrance to remain and instructed security personnel to ignore anyone sneaking through it.

He felt that children, who had little money to start with, would be more willing to spend their limited funds inside the park if they got in for free.

The overflow lot sometimes reached capacity, and when this happened, motorists were directed to park on local streets anywhere between the nearby George Washington Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel several miles south.

Local residents objected to the traffic jams, noise, litter, changing racial demographics, and other effects of the park's immense popularity.

They successfully pressured the local government to re-zone the amusement park site for high-rise apartment housing and condemn it under eminent domain.

In January 1971, a Texas developer, Winston-Centex Corporation, acquired the property for $12.5 million, and agreed to lease it back to Irving Rosenthal so that Palisades Amusement Park could operate for one final season.

[10][11] The last person to swim in the famous "world's largest outdoor saltwater pool" was Curt Kellinger, son of long time park employee and pool manager George Kellinger Sr. After it closed, Morgan "Mickey" Hughes and Fletch Creamer Jr. tried to reopen the park for one more season and obtained a lease from Winston-Centex.

"[citation needed] In June 2014, five original roller coaster cars from The Cyclone that were "gathering dust for decades" were returned to Bergen County from Pennsylvania, and were planned to undergo a restoration project, more than 40 years after the park's closing.

American soul pop singer/songwriter A Girl Called Eddy featured a song titled "Come to the Palisades!"