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Knoebels, the free amusement park
Elysburg, Pennsylvania
Pete unseth · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A family amusement park in a creekside grove, run by Knoebels since 1926, with no admission gate: you walk in free and buy tickets for what you ride. The Phoenix, a wooden coaster rescued from Texas and rebuilt board by board, is routinely voted the best wooden coaster anywhere, and the whole place runs on the heresy that a park can be great without costing a day's pay at the door.
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