Negative-G - Lakemont Park and The Island Waterpark 2015 Page Seven

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The Toboggan Roller Coaster at Lakemont Park and The Island Waterpark, Altoona, Pennsylvania

If you enjoy spinning around and around and around and around again and again then the Toboggan is the ride for you.

Growing up in the 1970's you used to see these in grocery store parking lots all across suburbia as they were quite popular with traveling fairs and carnivals. Time and a life on the road of being set up and taken down that Chance sent off of the assembly line in Wichita, Kansas and only two remain.

The reason the cars for the Toboggan are so claustrophobic and all enclosed is had the car not been covered and windows all screened in a rider could easily reach out and grab the lift or any of the parts of the structure that are inches away from the car.

If you are numbed or nauseous from the endless downward spiral of the Toboggan you need to hold on as it has a doozy of an ending. This quick dip slams you down and whips your head forward. Prepare for it or you will end up slamming your head into the chicken wire window in front of you.

While not the most pleasurable ride the Toboggan is a neat little historical coaster side note. It would be interesting to see some company build a modern coaster on a trailer for fairs. If they do I hope they trick it out with a ton of lights like the Toboggan.