Mekado Murphy, the assistant film editor for The New York Times, moonlights as the newspaper’s unofficial roller coaster ...

National Roller Coaster Day 2025 — created to mark the day in 1898 when Edwin Prescott patented the first vertical loop roller coaster, according to nationaldaycalendar.com — is Saturday, Aug. 16.

The race is on to open the first tilt roller coaster in the United States with amusement parks in Ohio and Texas vying for the chance to be the first to tip American riders vertically on a see-sawing ...

What would become Geauga Lake Park started in 1887 as a train stop with a picnic grove. The park added its first roller coaster, The Big Dipper, in 1925 and later had Ohio's first looping roller ...