The $60-million Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier plans to open in May with 16 rides, including a vertical-lift steel coaster, a 100-foot-tall Ferris wheel with programmable LED lights and a ...

Construction is under way. After its scheduled late-May opening, the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier will jut out 1,000 feet over the surf at 25th Street, where the original Pleasure Pier ...

The crown jewel of branding at Pleasure Pier is Pirate’s Plunge, which goes all out on the buccaneer theme right down to having bad pirate voice acting to explain the rules.

The pier, which is just 1,130 feet over the Gulf of Mexico, takes its name from the original Pleasure Pier, which was constructed in 1943 for the military and eventually morphed into a tourist ...

The Pier will open for business seven days a week starting Friday, December 21. While out of school this winter break, children are encouraged to visit Pleasure Pier to enjoy 16 rides, numerous ...

Pleasure Pier Pleasure Pier announced Thursday they will reopen all rides starting Friday. Currently, Walk-on-Pier passes are given for visitors. Dining and shops remain open on the pier.

The Pier won, I had lost, but I was ready to embrace the loss with gusto. Some might call it the rapture of the depths, but I prefer to think of it as the Pleasure (Pier) Principle.

The Pleasure Pier sat at the end of Peoples Street in downtown Corpus Christi from 1922 until 1939, when it was removed to make way for the seawall.

The construction of the Boardwalk’s Pleasure Pier coincided with construction of the first beach Casino in 1904. The 150-foot structure was illuminated by electric lights and initially called ...