One of the first “roller-coaster” rides in the U.S. was actually a short coal railway in Pennsylvania that hauled coal downhill between mines and used mules to bring the empty cars back up the hill.

For the hard-core amusement park crowd, nothing satisfies like a good roller coaster. Long drops, high speed, lots of airtime and adrenaline rushes are what they crave. The only thing that can top a ...

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 ...

DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — Cedar Point announced Thursday that it will open the “tallest, fastest and longest” tilt roller coaster in North America next year. The new coaster, the Siren’s Curse is 160 ...

New Jersey (KYW) — Kingda Ka, once the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world, is now a pile of rubble after it was imploded at New Jersey’s Six Flags Great Adventure on Friday morning. The ...