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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is the Phoenix at Knoebel's Amusement Resort truly the best wooden roller coaster in the world? According to Amusement Today, it is -- at least for this year. The publication has released the results ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wooden roller coaster that operated on and off at a northwestern Pennsylvania amusement park across the span of 84 years has been demolished. Conneaut Lake Park didn't specify exactly why the Blue ...