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Kennywood is an amusement park 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.
In 1969, a small "speed bump" hill was removed from the inner helix near the loading station. Thunderbolt was rated the #1 roller coaster by the New York Times in 1974. On May 16, 1968, a 15-year old boy from Greensburg died after a fall from the roller coaster. The exact cause of death was stated to be under investigation but has never been ...
Steel Curtain is a steel hypercoaster at Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States.Manufactured by S&S – Sansei Technologies, the coaster reaches a height of 220 feet (67 m) and features either eight or nine inversions, [a] including a 197-foot (60 m) corkscrew considered to be the world's tallest inversion.
Phantom's Revenge is a steel hypercoaster located at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.It originally opened as Steel Phantom in 1991, featuring the fastest speed and longest drop of any roller coaster in the world.
Kennywood Park Holiday Lights with more than 2 million lights, Santa, model trains and nearly 20 kid and family attractions at the West Mifflin amusement park. Opens weekends starting Nov. 18 and ...
The roller coaster was built in 1985 and had previously operated at Wiener Prater in Austria and Alton Towers in England, before opening at Idlewild in 1993. Kennywood continued the Macdonald tradition of offering large-scale entertainment, presenting circuses, lumberjack and acrobatics shows, and stage performances at the new Hillside Theater.
In September 1998, Kennywood officially announced Exterminator as their sixth roller coaster and the park's first indoor coaster, complementing the park's history of iconic dark rides. Described as "a subterranean roller coaster adventure", the ride is fast, rough, includes a few sudden falls, and ends with a fast finale that includes flashing ...
Jack Rabbit is a wooden roller coaster located at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.Designed and built by John A. Miller [2] and Harry C. Baker, [3] Jack Rabbit opened in 1920, making it one of the oldest roller coasters in the world still in operation. [4]