HERSHEY, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Ready for a new thrill this weekend? How about a new roller coaster at Hersheypark! Wildcat's Revenge opens Friday. It's the first-ever hybrid coaster at the park, ...

LEHIGH COUNTY — American Coaster Enthusiast has named the Thunderhawk, the wooden roller coaster at Allentown’s Dorney Park, as an international roller coaster landmark, the park announced Tuesday.

Fans of old-fashioned wooden roller coasters have until July 31 to ride Hersheypark's landmark Wildcat coaster. Wildcat, which opened in 1996, has 3,100 feet of track with a top speed of 48 mph over ...

History is being made at a Missouri amusement park. The Outlaw Run is a wooden roller coaster at Silver Dollar City, in Branson. It's the first wooden roller coaster to twist upside down and it does ...

Hersheypark will revamp one of its classic roller coasters over the coming months, transforming the wooden Wildcat into a hybrid ride with a new steel track. Fittingly, the ride will be called Wildcat ...

It's pretty much a yearly occurrence these days -- some amusement park is setting a new roller coaster record. Maybe it's for speed. Maybe it's for a special design feature. But since 1979, The Beast ...

There’s nothing like a ride on a wooden roller coaster. The loops, corkscrews and other stomach-torturing features on steel coasters are thrilling. But I prefer the ride of a wooden track any day. The ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) — Roller coasters are present throughout the country and the world. With ever-changing technology, the amount of roller coasters continues to grow. Most coasters built presently ...

March 31 (UPI) --Officials with an Ohio theme park said a wooden roller coaster officially dubbed the world's longest has broken its own record by getting 2 feet longer. The Kings Island amusement ...

Amid the park's 50th anniversary, Adventureland's Tornado has officially joined the list of Roller Coaster Landmarks. The Tornado is one of Adventureland's most iconic rides, so it's fitting to get ...

SAN ANTONIO – If you’re a roller coaster fan, you have every reason to get excited this month! SeaWorld San Antonio is unveiling the ‘tallest, longest, fastest’ wooden roller coaster in Texas, the ...

Fire isn’t part of what makes roller coasters thrilling. Authorities suspect that an arsonist was responsible for a fire that broke out overnight at an Idaho theme park. Fortunately, it appears that ...