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Williams Grove Amusement Park is an amusement park near Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The park operated from 1850 until 2005, and was reopened in 2007 after being sold to Carwardine Parks.
History[]
In 2007, the park was reopened under the ownership of Carwardine Parks, seeing a massive revamp and many new rides being added as part of Phase I.
In 2008, Phase II of the reopening occurred, with more rides and coasters under the typical Carwardine licenses being added.
In 2022, Launchpads opened.
Areas[]
- Kids Kountry
Rides & attractions[]
Roller coasters[]
- Cyclone (1933; A PTC wooden roller coaster, gained an ACE Coaster Classic award in 2008, temporarily renamed “Texas Cyclone” in 2022 due to a deal with AstroWorld in which they had to rename their ride after the Astros won the World Series)
- Launchpads (2022; A Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang, formerly Deja Vu at Six Flags Magic Mountain and Goliath at Six Flags New England)
- Maggie Simpson's Adventure (2007; A Wisdom Rides Dragon Wagon coaster, formerly known as "Dragon Wagon" [2007-2021]) [Kids Kountry]
- Sparra Aerial Patrol (2008; A Vekoma family suspended coaster)
- Wildcat (2007; A Gerstlauer 420/4 spinning coaster)
Flat rides[]
- Bratz Cool Carz (2008; A slot car ride)
- Carwardine River Rapids (2008; Intamin River Rapids)
- Cosmic (2007; A Tivoli Orbiter ride)
- Koopa's Shell Spinner (2008; A Zamperla Mega Disk'O ride)
- The MarioKart Experience Express (2008; A go-kart track, extra charge)
- Tower Swing (2011; A 100-ft tall Funtime StarFlyer ride)
- Twister (2007; An ARM Scrambler ride)
Kiddie rides[]
All kiddie rides are located in Kids Kountry.
- 4x4 Rally Monsters (2007; A Zamperla Convoy ride with monster trucks)
- Air Willy (2007; A biplane themed Zamperla Crazy Bus ride)
- Balloons (2007; A Zamperla Samba Balloons ride)
- Carnival Cars (2007; A Zamperla carousel style kiddie ride with cars)
- Frog Hopper (2007; An S&S Frog Hopper ride)
Former coasters[]
- Kiddie Coaster (1992-2005; A Miler Manufacturing kiddie coaster, scrapped, replaced with Dragon Wagon)
Former attractions[]
- Dante's Inferno (????-2005; A Pretzel Company dark ride, has been abandoned, with several concepts, like retheming it to Rocko's Modern Life, or putting in an indoor Troika ride have been in [no pun intended] development hell since 2006/2007)
- Robo Rider (2007-2011; a Zamperla Mini Enterprise ride)
Trivia[]
- This is the oldest park owned by Carwardine Parks.