I loved Hersherypark and I will continue to do so. I heard one lady say "what the hell just happened!?" It became more fun watching guest's expressions then the ride itself. Toad had a strange ending? It had NOTHING on the Frontier Meeting House! As you exited the other end of the church while hillbilly banjo music played, you could just see the look on guests' faces. Sadly it only lasted a few years and vanished. The miners were screaming, the audience was screaming.ahhhhh good times! I rode that so many times that I can vividly picture it from beginning to end. The devil himself had a huge strobe light flashing upon him. Suddenly you saw tunnels where miners were trapped by demons. With the sounds of creaks and cracks, the building started to rotate all the way around and the lights went out. As he continued to condemn the mining going on underneath the church, the room slowly started to rotate.just in little increments to make everyone start to scream. Sitting inside an old country church, two long pews back to back, you'd hear the preacher start his sermon by saying."Welcome friends, to chapel on the mountain." He began talking about the dangers of digging holes in the hills and the damages mining will cause. Built inside the dome where the arcade stands today, was an inhouse built "magic room ride" that literally took you to hell and back. HOWEVER.the mother of all thrills and the one attraction I find the least amount of data on, was the "Frontier Meeting House". It was the perfect ride to "spin dry" the water out of you after coming off Canyon River Rapids (sadly gone now too)! One of my favorite long gone rides was "The Conastoga" which was a covered wagon themed Huss Rainbow. I swear the right one is faster! And the Coal Shaker (now defunct) was a coal themed "cuddle up" inside a building that you had to scream to hear yourself talk. The Coal Cracker will always be my favorite flume ride with its unique "2 chutes". The Comet was the first wooden coaster I'd ever experienced and I'd still ride that today despite I'd need a chiropractic appointment afterwards! The Super-Dooper-Looper was also my first looping coaster. ![]() I was probably only 5 when I first rode it and I think there were 2 of them side by side. Going straight up inside that tube was a rush. From the 70s, I remember fondly riding a Chance Toboggan that was permanently installed at Carousel Circle. However, any of the newer coasters over the last 5-8 years, I have not experienced (mostly because at my age, I check every one of those "DO NOT RIDE IF." boxes!) Regardless I love this park and want to get over there this year to see the new entrance plaza.Īs a kid, I always wanted to work there but I lived just a tad too far to make it a daily commute. Woooo!!! My home park! It's been awesome watching this park morph and change since the mid 1970s into what it's become today.
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