Pacific Ocean Park

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacific Ocean Park was a twenty-eight acre (110,000 m ), nautical-themed amusement park built on a pier at Pier Avenue in the Ocean Park section of Santa Monica, California, which was intended to compete with Disneyland. And Disneyland and POP is worth a trip to L.A. is a line from the Beach Boys' song Amusement Parks U.S.A. from their 1965 album Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!). After it closed and fell into disrepair, the park and pier anchored the Dogtown area of Santa Monica.