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Designated PHMC. August 5, 1992 [3] Kennywood is an amusement park which is located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, just southeast of Pittsburgh. The park opened on May 30, 1898, as a trolley park attraction at the end of the Mellon family 's Monongahela Street Railway. [1][2]
The park opened in 1955 with seven rides. It was operated by brother and sister Roy Todd and Margaret Kleeman, who built it along with Kleeman's husband Edward. As the park expanded, it came to occupy about 40 acres (160,000 m 2) of land, featuring a children's section and 15 rides, including the Galaxi roller coaster and a train billed as "the ...
75001609 [2] Added to NRHP. March 4, 1975. The Duquesne Incline (/ djuːˈkeɪn / dew-KAYN) is a funicular scaling Mount Washington near the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Designed by Hungarian-American engineer Samuel Diescher, the incline was completed in 1877. The lower station is in the Second Empire style.
Festival crowd at Point State Park with the downtown Pittsburgh skyline in the background Artists working on an annual sand sculpture for the Regatta. The race corresponds to a three-day festival in downtown Pittsburgh consisting of variety of events including free concerts, food vendors, aerial competitions, various water sports, dragon boat races, and the July Fourth fireworks display for ...
via West View Park Company. Slogan. "Just for fun!" (1920s-1930s) "The fun park!" (1970s) West View Park was an amusement park, located in West View, Pennsylvania. It was owned by T.M. Harton Company of Pittsburgh through its subsidiary company West View Park Company, which was founded in December 1905. The park opened on May 23, 1906.
Great Allegheny Passage. The Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) is a 150-mile (240 km) rail trail between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cumberland, Maryland. Together with the C&O Canal towpath, the GAP is part of a 335 mi (539 km) route between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., that is popular with through hikers and cyclists.
Sandcastle Waterpark is a water park located in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Homestead. The park is located on a 67-acre (270,000 m 2 ) piece of land along the banks of the Monongahela River . Sandcastle is owned by Palace Entertainment, subsidiary of Spain-based Parques Reunidos , who purchased original parent company Kennywood Entertainment.
Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT, formerly Port Authority of Allegheny County) is the second-largest public transit agency in Pennsylvania and the 20th-largest in the United States. [3] The state-funded agency is based in Pittsburgh and is overseen by a CEO and a board of unpaid volunteer directors, some of whom are appointed by the county ...