PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When the always popular Log Jammer was shut down this year, Kennywood Park was mum on what might replace the iconic ride. But KDKA-TV has learned that a new roller coaster is ...

HOWARD (WLUK) -- The nation’s top-ranked professional log rollers are battling it out in the Village of Howard for the first time this summer. Saturday, the 17th Annual Three Rivers Roleo is taking ...

$22 million Lightning Rod is world’s fastest, first launching wood coaster PIGEON FORGE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dollywood today announced the addition of Lightning Rod, both the world’s fastest wood ...

The Wall Street Journal shows you how to train like a champion log-roller (from Minnesota, of course). The Wall Street Journal's "What's Your Workout?" column regularly profiles out-of-the-ordinary ...

It has been 60 years since the oldest wooden roller coaster in Canada took its first set of thrill-seekers on its swaying one-kilometre track at Vancouver's Playland at the PNE. According to the ...

Once alive with the sound of wheels on rickety tracks and thrillseekers' screams, this roller coaster now lies abandoned and forgotten. The Hurricane is just one of the many attractions at the defunct ...

Riders had to be escorted down the lift hill at the wooden roller-coaster in Vancouver's Playland on Wednesday due to an equipment issue. The attraction — which celebrated its 65th anniversary this ...

How do roller coasters work? In this in-depth video, we explore the history, physics, and engineering behind roller coasters — from the earliest Russian Mountains and wooden switchback railways to ...

Wild Mouse was one of the last remaining four wooden Wild Mouse roller coasters in the world, but it has been taken down to make way for more modern rides ONE of Blackpool’s oldest rides has been ...