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Dorney Park is just the beginning: 13 Pennsylvania amusement parks that are fun for all
Amusement and water parks in Pennsylvania go beyond Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom. From Dutch Wonderland to Idlewild, they re fun for everyone.
Scott Tady, Dylan Johnson, Shelly Stallsmith, Christopher Dornblaser and Micaela Hood, Erie Times-News
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2:22 am UTC May. 24, 2021
Screams and splashes await at thrill rides and water slides near you.
A year after the COVID-19 pandemic locked the gates at amusement parks throughout Pennsylvania, many are once again spinning cotton candy, soaking waterslides and firing up the roller coasters.
The carousel, Ferris wheel and tilt-a-whirl are all spinning again as eager patrons whip out their swim trunks and SPF and flash their tickets and wrist bands.
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‘Endangered’ butterflies reintroduced at secret sites in Pennsylvania
Posted May 14, 2021
Tiny, first-instar caterpillars of the rare regal fritillary butterfly are placed on violet leaves on a state game lands. (Pennsylvania Game Commission photo)
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Efforts to re-establish populations of a once common, native butterfly that today persists in the East only at Fort Indiantown Gap in northern Lebanon County and the Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia – have gotten a boost this year.
The success rate for raising caterpillars of the regal butterfly in a lab at ZooAmerica in Hershey for release onto new sites in Pennsylvania has climbed from 15 percent to 60 percent, according to Mark Schwartz, a wildlife biologist with the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Environmental Office at Fort Indiantown Gap.
Cedar Point, Kings Island & more: Amusement parks look to rebound after last year’s COVID summer
Updated May 14, 2021;
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SANDUSKY, Ohio Postponed rider syndrome got you down? There’s a cure for that.
Millions of coaster fans may be suffering the effects of missing a full year of thrills at their favorite amusement park because of the health pandemic.
Help is on the way – in the form of declining COVID rates, plus new rides, special events and what officials hope is a (mostly) normal return to fun at the park.
Cedar Point opens for the season Friday. Kings Island opens Saturday. Kennywood, near Pittsburgh, opened last weekend, and Waldameer, in Erie, opens this weekend.