The race is on to open the first tilt roller coaster in the United States with amusement parks in Ohio and Texas vying for the chance to be the first to tip American riders vertically on a see-sawing ...

National Roller Coaster Day 2025 — created to mark the day in 1898 when Edwin Prescott patented the first vertical loop roller coaster, according to nationaldaycalendar.com — is Saturday, Aug. 16.

What would become Geauga Lake Park started in 1887 as a train stop with a picnic grove. The park added its first roller coaster, The Big Dipper, in 1925 and later had Ohio's first looping roller ...

It was back in 1998 that the Great Bear first opened at Hersheypark.The Great Bear was the first steel inverted looping roller coaster in Pennsylvania.Hersheypark invested $13 million into what was, ...

DOSWELL, Va. — A "long-time favorite" roller coaster at Kings Dominion will be removed before the theme park celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025. Park officials confirmed the news to CBS 6 on ...

DOSWELL, Va. (WWBT) - Kings Dominion is removing the Anaconda, a rollercoaster that has been at the park since 1991. Online records from Virginia 811 show that a ticket was filed Dec. 20 to demolish ...

Terrifying video from an amusement park in Arizona shows a man climbing out of a roller coaster moments before it drops. The video was captured at Castles N' Coasters amusement park in Phoenix. "It ...