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Coordinates: 40°23′20″N 79°52′05″W 40.388804, -79.868065999999999

Kennywood

• Location & Contact Information
  • Address: 4800 Kennywood Blvd West Mifflin PA USA 15122
  • Telephone Number: +1-412-461-0500
  • Official Website: [1]
• Overview

Kennywood is an amusement park near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the borough of West Mifflin. It ranked second to Cedar Point in the category of Favorite Park in Theme Park Magazines 2004 Readers Choice Awards.Kennywood now uses the slogan Americas Finest Traditional Amusement Park as well as Make a New Memory, although from the 1960s through the early 1990s the slogan was The Roller Coaster Capital of the World. The property features three old wooden coasters still in working order, along with a newer steel coaster, the Phantoms Revenge (2001), and one indoor coaster, the Exterminator (added in 1999). The park features a variety of other family-type rides, with a total of !-- The SS Kenny ride is absent from the page .Kennywood is also famous for its Fresh Cut French Fries at the Potato Patch stand. The fries are cut fresh and served in a basket with an option of up to eight toppings. The Potato Patch Fries have become so well known that Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle grocery stores began selling frozen Potato Patch Fries in 2001.One of only two amusement parks listed in the National Register of Historic Places (the other being Rye Playland Park ), Kennywood also is one of the few amusement parks that still allow guests to bring their own picnic lunch, and is alcohol-free. For decades, smoking was tolerated anywhere in the park, but is now restricted to designated areas.Kennywood is owned by Kennywood Entertainment , which until December 2007 was a closely held family business owned by the Henninger and McSwigan families. Kennywood Entertainment is now a subsidiary of Parques Reunidos, an international amusement park company based in Madrid, Spain.^[1]

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