Lakemont Park
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Lakemont opened in 1893 as a trolley park and is currently the 8th oldest operating amusement park in the United States. It was also
known as Boyertown USA for a few years in the 1980s when it was owned by the Boyer Candy Company. The park was closed for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. When it reopened in 2019, many of its amusement park rides were gone. The park
closed all of amusement park rides in 2024, and is currently in a dispute with Blair County as to the lease and operations of the park. The park is home what was the world's oldest operating roller coaster, but
Leap The Dips has been Standing But Not Operating (SBNO) since 2024. Skyline has also been SBNO since 2024.
Five coasters have left the park:
- Gravity Road (1894-1901) was a wood coaster.
- Little Leaper (1993-2023) was a Herschell kiddie coaster built in the late 1960s. During the park's closure in 2017 and 2018, it was relocated to a different section of the park
and was renamed Lil'Leaper. (See below for details)
- Mad Mouse (1991-2003) was a Herschell Wild Mouse model that first operated as Mad Mouse at the
White Swan Park in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania from 1965 until the park was closed in 1989 to provide space for a road to the Pittsburgh International Airport. (See below for details)
- Toboggan (1991-2016) was a Chance Toboggan that was built in 1963,. Before coming to Lakemont, it was a traveling coaster. It was SBNO in 2017 and 2018, but
opened as Toboggan at Huaycha Centro Recreativo in Huancayo, Peru. (See below for details)
- Twister (1927-1935) was a wood coaster built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. It was demolished after a flood damaged it.
