What a great trip back to 1927
Written: Jun 24 '07 (Updated Jun 24 '07)
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Pros: Great price, great rides, great food.
Cons: Try to find your car in the massive parking lot.
The Bottom Line: Great price for a day of fun, excitement & memories. Everything is reasonably priced too.
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| theawesome1's Full Review: Kennywood Park |
when the Racer was built. The twin wooden coasters race each other thru the hulls, turns 7 feeling of being beheaded from the wooden trellis overhead as you race by. This is now a historic landmark for Pennsylvania as is its sister called Jack Rabbit. These 2 coasters give more thrill than any spinning steel one. Then you get a taste of more excitement with Thunderbolt, also a wooden coaster but more modern than the sisters, no date given when it was built but this has little hills within big hills to fly you out of your set tho you are safe with the restraints.
The modern rides called Ex-terminator which is within a building at the end of the park. It is dark in there so you have no idea of the hills, the high speed spins and then doing hills backwards. But I leave it up to you to get the great ride we did.
Then seen by all entering is the Phantom's Revenge. The newest steel coaster without the flip overs. This is speed to the max on the large hill I found comparable to Magnum at Cedar Point but instead of straight down it goes in a right circle down with everyone feeling as they were going to fly out of the seat. This is one great coaster!
Then for folks who love to get soaked, try the Log Jammer & Raging Rapids with a perfect hit to send water 12 feet up & all over you. The Rapids even have spectators getting you wet with water guns.
For $25 PP up to 3 strapped together, they can launch you from the top of a crane down overhead of everyone in the area on Skycoaster.
Then with the same idea as Big Shot in Las Vegas atop the Stratosphere, Kennywood has Pitt Fall where you are shot into the air atop a 30 foot tall structure & held there to enjoy the view, then you free fall til it catches you before you hit ground.
That is what we road during our stay and we did enjoy our mini vacation with a Holiday Inn package making our king room $43. Check their www.kennywood.com site clicking on plan a visit area then hotel packages to book one.
The kiddie park is the oldest in the USA from when the owner built some entertainment on his farm for his kids in 1898. And it just grew from there. Plenty of trees, flowers, waterfalls, to relax you too.
The food is from great french fries to the best called a funnel cake with ice cream & strawberries with whipped cream on it for $3.75. $2.75 if you just want powdered sugar on it. Fresh lemonade for $2 a cup and a Kennywood plastic glass with straw & lid for $3,75. They do have a cafe with various food items for lunch or dinner if the corn dogs, burgers, pizza and just about anything you want made hot & fresh & a great price.
So stop over & enjoy yourselves. We did a mini vacation from Cleveland after we lost our Euclid Beach with all the wooden coasters to a massive fire years ago. But we have Kennywood to enjoy. Even over 55 get in for $15! Everyone else is $31.
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