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Website. www.knoebels.com. Knoebels Amusement Resort (/ kəˈnoʊbəlz /) is a family-owned and operated amusement park, picnic grove, and campground in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. Opened in 1926, it is the United States's largest free-admission park. The park has more than 60 rides including three wooden roller coasters, three steel roller ...
Idlewild and Soak Zone is the oldest operating amusement park in Pennsylvania, third oldest in the United States, and twelfth oldest in the world. [46] The park has been recognized by trade magazine Amusement Today with the "Golden Ticket" award for best children's park in the world every year since 2010, through to 2018.
Lakemont Park is an amusement park located in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The park opened in 1894 as a trolley park and became an amusement park in 1899. It is one of only thirteen trolley parks still operating, and the 8th oldest amusement park in the United States. The park was closed from 2017 to 2018, but re-opened in summer 2019. [1]
Willow Grove Park was an amusement park located in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. It operated for eighty years, from 1896 to 1975. [1] It was the main competitor to Woodside Amusement Park in Fairmount Park until its closure. Aerial view of Willow Grove Park in 1926. The park originally was conceived by one of the three Philadelphia area traction ...
Hersheypark. Hersheypark (known as Hershey Park until 1970) is a family theme park in the eastern United States in Hershey, Pennsylvania, about fifteen miles (25 km) east of Harrisburg, and 95 miles (155 km) west of Philadelphia. The park was founded in 1906, [3][4][6] by Milton S. Hershey [7] as a leisure park for the employees of the Hershey ...
Conneaut Lake Park / ˈ k ɒ n i ˌ ɔː t / is a summer resort and event venue located in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, United States.It has long served as a regional tourist destination, and was noted by roller coaster enthusiasts for its classic Blue Streak coaster, which was classified as "historic" by the American Coaster Enthusiasts group in 2010. [1]
16 acres (6.5 ha) Luna Park was an amusement park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that operated from 1905 to 1909. [1] Constructed and owned by Frederick Ingersoll, the park occupied a 16 acre [2] hilly site bounded on the south by Atlantic Avenue (now Baum Boulevard) and on the west by North Craig Street, [3] and included many rides and amusements.
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]