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Knoebels Amusement Resort (/ k ə ˈ n oʊ b əl z /) 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.
Playland Park was an amusement park formerly located in San Antonio, Texas. Playland Park opened in 1943 and was owned by Jimmy Johnson. Prior to this it operated as a small venue at Brackenridge Park. It was the original home of The Rocket, a popular wooden roller coaster currently located at Knoebels Amusement Resort. Ed Gaida, who lived at ...
On June 13, 2003, a man was seriously injured in a 30-foot (9.1 m) fall from the Scenic Skyway chairlift ride at Knoebels Amusement Park. The man was a member of a group home for mentally disabled people and was riding alone. He was airlifted to a local hospital and recovered.
Knoebels Amusement Resort, family-owned since opening in 1926, is America's largest free-admission amusement park. That means guests can choose what they'd like to spend their money on, be it ...
Sep. 14—Dick Knoebel was named a Golden Ticket Legend by Amusement Today this past weekend. Knoebel, the president of Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, received the distinction at the ...
The USA Today "10Best" panel ranked "Wildcat's Revenge" fourth, "Phantom's Revenge" at Kennywood third, and the "Phoenix" at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Columbia County pulled in the highest ...
Phoenix is a wooden roller coaster located at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. It was moved to its current location in central Pennsylvania in 1985. [1] Prior to its purchase and relocation to Knoebels, it operated under the name The Rocket at Playland Park in San Antonio, Texas.
Herbert Paul Schmeck (born 1890 in Reading, Pennsylvania, died 1956) was an American roller coaster designer. From 1923 to 1955, Schmeck designed 84 coasters for the Philadelphia Toboggan Company . As a designer and president, the company became the most prominent manufacturer of roller coasters in the United States .