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Published: November 26th 2012
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Hi, Friends --
These photos are going back a bit in time as we visited Knoebels Resort back in mid-August, the beginning of this year's fall trip. Even though Bob is from PA and had heard about the resort for many years (after all, it's 85 years old now), he'd never visited it before.
Our first surprise was the huge number of people there the day we went, many thousands in fact. There is no admission, most of the rides are $1 to $3, the food is good and inexpensive, and there are big trees everywhere, making the park shady and cool in the hot weather such as the day we attended. And the number of rides is amazing.
From Wikipedia: "Knoebels Amusement Resort is a family-owned and -operated
amusement park,
picnic grove, and
campground in
Elysburg, Pennsylvania. Opened in 1926, the park has more than 57 rides, free admission, two wooden
roller coasters, a 1913
carousel, and a
haunted house dark ride that was featured on the
Discovery Channel. The park and its rides have won awards from organizations such as Amusement Today, American Coaster Enthusiasts, and The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions. Knoebels has (also)won the
Amusement Today Golden Ticket Award for best
amusement park food for the past 14 consecutive years."
Knoebels has eight
roller coasters although only four are operating currently. The two wooden roller coasters are well known and are on top 100 lists.
Several of the rides have equipment that is quite old, hand carved, and still in good shape -- the 1913 carousel, for instance.
You can see from the one photo of a tree trunk showing the levels of several floods that they've had quite a history of flooding. Yet, according to write-ups on the internet, they managed to clean up after each flood in remarkably short periods of time. Sometimes they were back in business in 2-3 days.
We spent several delightful hours at the park and want to return when we have a full day to spend there. One can easily understand why this park has managed to stay in business for so long. It's a real treasure. Can you imagine having this nearby when you were growing up?
Paula & Bob
PS -- Don't forget that you can double click on the first photo and see them all enlarged by then clicking on the arrow in the upper right
corner to move forward. You may have to move your mouse around over that part of the photos to make the arrows appear.
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Bob Vickers
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Where to stay at the amusement park
Bob & Paula, As our two granddaughters get older and the eldest goes to high school (she is in 7th), they will no longer be able to come to Fladuring their school vacation due to their vacation activities at school. Soooo, we are looking for alternate spots to visit in the fall, winter and spring and summer, maybe for a week or so. What do you suggest? You have a camper but we camp by Ann's rules "I will camp anywhere they have room service", so you know we are always looking for nice accomodations, not five star, around 3-4 star, with places for old folks to visit (although I like rides). Bob, did you ever ride a barge through the Erie Canal? I think Ann may be OK with that. We will be in FL this winter mid Feb - mid Mar. We will try to hook up, but Sally might be a problem. Bob V. PS Paula your pictures are terrific. It looks easy, but it takes real talent like yours to get such great photos.