AUSTELL, Ga. -- The red cars rumble by on wooden tracks covered in peeling white paint. With a steady clink, clink it climbs 95 feet in the air, then plummets into a curve, jerking the riders sideways ...

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 ...

(WHTM) — Now that you know what the five oldest steel roller coasters in Pennsylvania are, now it’s time to find out what the oldest wooden coasters are. Wooden coasters were some of the very first ...

A piece of amusement park history that holds a lot of memories for thousands in northern Ohio is up for auction. A front coaster car from Geauga Lake's famed Double Loop roller coaster is being ...

Roller coaster engineer Korey Kiepert joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about roller coasters and the people who design them. How do roller coasters work? Who invented the first ...

Six Flags Magic Mountain, in its more than 50 years of existence, has solidified itself as one of the most thrill-packed amusement parks in America. Its stable of historic and modern coasters is ...

Hersheypark is celebrating a century of roller coaster riding.Exactly 100 years ago, on June 16, 1923, the first roller coaster opened at the amusement park. Now, Hersheypark is home to 15 coasters – ...

American amusement parks are taking a bit of a breather this year. They don't have any record-breaking, holy-moly, you've-got-to-be-kidding-me, crazy-big coasters rolling out in 2017. That's not to ...

Q: Are you competitive about this? A: Oh, yes. I’ve ridden all types of roller coasters, from kiddie rides to major looping coasters. No coaster is too big or too small. I’ve ridden all the major ...

The wooden Leap-the-Dips amusement park ride in Altoona, Pennsylvania, is the oldest roller coaster still running in the United States. Built in 1902, it became a National Historic Landmark in 1996.