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Turnpike was a ride at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. It was introduced for the 1966 season. Turnpike originally had gasoline-powered cars, which were later replaced with electric cars. Kennywood dismantled Turnpike in 2010 in order to make room for the new Sky Rocket launched steel roller coaster. The park stated that ...
The area references Kennywood's long history, including its short-lived rival Luna Park (1905–1909) and the illusion of old and dangerous rides. Steelers Country is themed after the Pittsburgh Steelers and includes a roller coaster called Steel Curtain , which has the tallest inversion in the world and the most inversions in the United States.
Instead, it enters the first drop, with the lift hill being located in the middle of the ride after the second drop. After the lift hill, riders descend a 90 ft (27 m) long drop. After this drop is a tight bend which results in the rider on the right being pushed into the rider on the left due to the lack of a seat divider.
Log Jammer traveled through the wooded areas of Kennywood in the far right corner of the park. The ride included two lift hills, a 27-foot (8.2 m) spillway drop and a 53-foot (16 m) drop down the final chute. [4] One of the ride's notable features was the spillway, which included a short uphill section.
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 ...
Auto Race, previously known as Auto Ride, is a miniature car ride located at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. It was conceived and designed by Harry Guy Traver of Traver Engineereing. It features a set of electric cars traveling through a wooden trough-like track lined with metal strips used to carry the electrical ...
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.
Over 1,500 lights decorate the ride. The two notable non-equine animals featured on the ride are a tiger and a lion. These two non-equine animals qualify this carousel as a menagerie carousel. It is one of the three rides at Kennywood with a start/stop bell that dates back to the origin of the ride.