Pennsylvania Amusement Parks Books

• Amusement Parks of Pennsylvania by Jim Futrell, Tim O'Brien

  • Pennsylvania is home to many classic amusement parks. This book begins with a concise history of the PA amusement parks. A comprehensive guide to 13 parks in PA. Featured parks: Williams Grove Amusement Park, Mechanicsburg Idlewild and Soak Zone, Ligonier Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom, Allentown Conneaut Lake Community Park, Conneaut Lake Lakemont Park, Altoona Waldameer Park and Water World, Erie Kennywood, West Mifflin Bushkill Park, Easton Hersheypark, Hershey DelGrosso's Amusement Park, Tipton Knoebels Amusement Resort, Elysburg Dutch Wonderland, Lancaster Sesame Place, Langhorne
• Kennywood by David P. Hahner Jr., Carl O. Hughes

  • For more than a century, Kennywood has been the Pittsburgh area’s playground. Kennywood is unique in that it is one of the country’s few successful trolley parks. Kennywood is perhaps best known for its impressive collection of roller coasters, from earlier coasters such as the Figure Eight, Speed-O-Plane, and Pippin to the Racer, Jack Rabbit, Thunderbolt, and Phantom’s Revenge coasters that still thrill riders today.
• Indian Trail and Edgemont Amusement Parks by Sean Billings, Johanna S. Billings

  • Indian Trail and Edgemont Amusement Parks highlights the history of two legendary amusement parks in Pennsylvania Lehigh Township. Photographs of Edgemont Park recall its days as a trolley park, started by the Blue Ridge Traction Company. These images are sure to bring back memories of the rides, games, and thrills that kept people coming back year after year.
• Conneaut Lake Park (Images of America) by Michael E. Costello

  • IPennsylvania’s largest natural lake. In 1892, Exposition Park—a permanent fair exhibiting machinery and livestock—was founded. Amusement rides were added alongside hotels, cottages, restaurants, and other businesses. The resort grew into an amusement park and was renamed Conneaut Lake Park in 1920

All of these Pennsylvania amusement park books can also be found in most of the major bookstores.