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, ...

Mekado Murphy, the assistant film editor for The New York Times, moonlights as the newspaper’s unofficial roller coaster ...

Rhode Island may not have any amusement parks in operation today, but many years ago, the Ocean State was full of them, from Crescent Point to The Enchanted Forest to Rocky Point Amusement Park. Theme ...