NY Times rounds up PA's wooden coasters

I tugged the seat belt tighter, eyeing him sideways. A coaster connoisseur, I got it — but did this free bird understand that this was barely Day 1 of my wooden coaster tour across Pennsylvania? That the Keystone State was littered with the things (15 operating wooden coasters, to be exact — more than any other state, according to the Roller Coaster Database) and I needed time to adjust? My plan was to baby-step my way through 13 of them over the next four days, eventually working my way up to the intense new Ravine Flyer II, which opened two months ago at Waldameer Park in Erie, Pa.

Read more and see video from The New York Times.

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Jeff

July 12, 2008, 10:13A

Thanks to RatherGoodBear for spotting this in the forums. Well-written travel article, and pretty good video too. Glad the NYT still can get it right.

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Impulse-ive

July 13, 2008, 12:07P

Thanks for the find RGB, that was a real treat to read. The only thing I REALLY regret about my move to Texas is that you don't realize how much western PA is really coaster central until you're not there anymore

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RatherGoodBear

July 13, 2008, 11:31P

You're welcome.

I can't take credit for any astute investigative skills. I was doing a Google search for something totally unrelated, and it took me to an article on an NYT page. At the bottom of the page was a link to this story, which had just been posted that day. Sometimes accidental discoveries are the best kind.