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Welcome to Buena Park!

James A. Whitaker founded Buena Park in 1887, in conjunction with the railway development in what we now know as Orange County. Buena Park is "The Center of the Southland” and home to Knott’s Berry Farm – the first themed amusement park.

During the depression, Walter Knott rescued experimental plants abandoned by horticulturalist Rudolph Boysen, and nurtured them into a bumper crop of berries which he named the “Boysenberry”. People stopped at Knott’s roadside stand to buy the luscious berries on their way to and from the beaches. Cordelia Knott made berry pies and served chicken dinners to patrons on her wedding china. Walter built a ghost town to entertain guests who waited countless hours for the scrumptious dinners – and the rest is history!

Buena Park Chamber of Commerce

City of Buena Park