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Family fun park, with the oldest operating wooden roller coaster in the world.
Lakemont Park is an amusement park located in Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States. The park opened in 1894 as a trolley park and later added its first rides in 1899. It is the eighth oldest amusement park in the US and one of only thirteen still in operation that first opened as a trolley park. The park closed from 2017 to 2018 and reopened in 2019. Lakemont Park's amusement rides have been inactive since 2024.
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Watch a live-action baseball team - up close and personal!
A Roman Catholic cathedral
Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad to allow trains to climb the steep Allegheny Mountains, this historic and well-known construction is a mecca for railfans. Located along the current Norfolk Southern east-west mainline, over 50 trains per day pass around the triple-track curve. Admission includes access to a small museum and a funicular ride up the hill to a grassy area on the inside of the curve, which has over 180 degrees' view of railroading action.
in nearby Gallitzen
The Allegheny Portage Railroad was a great achievement in early travel. Charles Dickens, Jenny Linn, and Ulysses S. Grant traveled over the Allegheny Mountains. They braved a system that injured passengers on a weekly basis. A system of inclined planes and a nine hundred foot tunnel carved through solid rock by Welsh coalminers made this feat possible. For twenty years, it was the fastest way to cross the rough and wild terrain of Pennsylvania. The site features a recreated incline and winch used to pull portaged barges over the hill.