The Park included a double track wooden roller coaster, a theater pavilion, a ridable miniature railway and boat livery.

[5] In 1954 the citizens of East Grand Rapids voted to close the park and raze it in favor of residential apartments and retail stores and shopping centers.

The Ramona Theatre Pavilion sat majestically on the East Side of the Park on Lakeside Drive, near the boat landing and overlooking Reeds Lake.

Popular plays, musicals, Vaudeville and burlesque acts, silent films, talkies and favorite local and national entertainers, such as Will Rogers, appeared at the theatre during its heyday.

[9] The Point Paulo resort was also located along the shores of Reeds Lake in the early 1900s, and was created as vacation spot for touring actors.

Mid-way amusement rides included: John J. McElwee and his brother, James owned and operated the carousel and the figure 8 roller coaster by the early 1900s, and built the wooden double-tracked Jack Rabbit Derby Racer in Ramona Park in 1914.

Celebrities such as Edgar Bergen, the Marx Brothers, Jimmy Durante, Joan Davis, Jack Benny, Fred Allen and Will Rogers plied their talents here, along with Buster Keaton, Fanny Brice, and many others.

This made to scale steam locomotive and the open cars could carry 30 or more people on a half mile ride through and around the park.

[12] Benjamin Hanchett was the President and General Manager of the Grand Rapids Street Railway Company 4 and an important Ramona Park developer.

The East Grand Rapids branch of the Kent District Library has a room dedicated to the amusement park with artifacts.