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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 ...
Added in 2001, this ride began a renovation and expansion project for Kiddieland. Placed on a new midway that replaced the Safety City truck ride, this is a miniature version of the park's former Flying Carpet ride. It is themed to the Kennywood trolley. Adults may ride. Dizzy Dynamo 1970 San Antonio Roller Works
3. Six Flags Fright Fest. Various locations. Many of Six Flags’ 27 amusement parks put on an annual Fright Fest with haunted houses, live entertainment, and rides in the dark, but the size and ...
The ride is heavily themed around the concept of the rider as a rat attempting to escape from exterminators. The concept is a pun on the phrase ''wild mouse", the type of spinning coaster that Exterminator is. Like other spinning wild mouse coasters, the cars face forward for the first half of the ride, but are free to spin during the second half.
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.
Pitt Fall was a drop tower ride located at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. The name of the ride was a pun on the word "pitfall", a type of booby trap, but spelled with two "t"'s in reference to the nearby city of Pittsburgh. When it opened in 1997, it was the tallest drop tower in the world.
Kennywood "Turtle", a Tumble Bug ride. A Tumble Bug is an amusement park ride with a circular track. [1]The ride has a central axis and a circular track. The track has changes in elevation in it, and the cars, each attached by a rod to a central pivotal attachment point and connected to one another, are propelled around the track via motors between the cars.
A panel of USA Today readers have voted Hersheypark, Kennywood and Knoebels Amusement Resort in Pennsylvania high in its most recent rankings of best amusement and theme parks across the nation ...