Every roller coaster or amusement park ride carries an unspoken promise of safety. Yet history shows that lapses in maintenance, operator errors, and ignored safety protocols can lead to catastrophic ...

Of the 33 incidents, 25 of them took place in just a two-year period between 2020 and 2021. The drop from 17 incidents in 2021 to two incidents in 2022 came as a result of a change in reporting ...

For more than 100 years, Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio, was an amusement park destination. From its earliest days in the late 19th century, when Geauga Lake was just a train stop with picnic tables and ...

After nearly two decades of thrills, roller coasters, go-karts and water rides in the heart of Seguin, ZDT’s Amusement Park took its final ride this weekend. But an extreme new adventure is already ...

Kennywood is a family amusement park in Pittsburgh with 8 roller coasters, 2 water rides, and a long and storied history that made it one of only two such venues to become National Historic Landmarks.

Netflix is opening two "Netflix Houses" in the US this year. Are those theme parks? Kind of. But they're really marketing programs for Netflix superfans. A few years ago, it seemed hard to imagine ...

A highly anticipated amusement park set for the only Formula 1 racetrack in Central Texas has faced delays in the two years since its announcement. Now the Circuit of the Americas' COTALand has ...

When Frank Fellows was a kid growing up in Alief, Fame City was the place to be. He recalls a charity event where former Rockets forward Robert Reid showed up, letting kids join in stunts like sliding ...

One of the last remaining vestiges of many Houstonians' childhoods has closed down. FunPlex, the iconic West Houston indoor amusement park that Beyoncé immortalized in a music video, officially shut ...

SPEEDWAY. TAKE A LOOK. THE DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY HAS SEEN ITS FAIR SHARE OF PICTURE FINISHES, BLOWOUT RACES, FIRST TIME WINNERS AND EVEN DOUBLE DIGIT WINNERS. THREE FLAGS IN THE AIR. BUT ...

The closure follows another recent loss in the community, the Alief Family YMCA, which shut down in May due to financial challenges and the need to restructure operations for long-term stability. In ...

"The Ultimate '90s Movie" is hoping the third time at Bay Beach Amusement Park is the charm — and blissfully dry. The independent movie that has been trying to film a critical scene with extras at the ...