Enjoy Amusement Galore in Pennsylvania

If you’re planning a party bus vacation and are an amusement park junkie, than for your next group bus rental holiday, you have to plan your travels to Pennsylvania by bus or limo with Bus Rental PA.

Now what is there to do in Pennsylvania you might ask? Well, located in a small wooded valley in Central Pennsylvania, originally known, as “Peggy’s Farm is America’s largest free-admission amusement park – Knoebels Amusement Resort

This family-owned and -operated amusement park, picnic grove, and campground in Elysburg, Pennsylvania has been open since 1926 and has more than 57 rides, two wooden roller coasters, a 1913 carousel, and a haunted house dark ride that was featured on the Discovery Channel. Small as it is, it brings about a very big fun factor.

Tour bus visitors who has been there knows that Knoebels has won the Amusement Today Golden Ticket Award for best amusement park food for the past 14 consecutive years from Amusement Today and has won assorted awards over the years from organizations such as Amusement Today, American Coaster Enthusiasts, and The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions.

If you like Roller Coasters, there’s the “Phoenix”, a relocated and restored Herb Schmeck (Philadelphia Toboggan Company) wooden roller coaster design that took 2nd place in the 2011 Golden Ticket Award competition for the worldwide wooden roller coaster category. There’s also the Twister, a 1964 John Allen design; the steel “Kozmo's Kurves” and “Black Diamond”, a steel indoor roller coaster. It will most definitely be the highlight of your charter bus vacation.

For carousels lovers, Knoebels has “Kiddieland” a small merry-go-round built by Stein & Goldstein in 1910; and the “Grand Carousel”, built by Kramer Carousel Works in Brooklyn with a frame by Charles I. D. Looff and 63 hand-carved horses by Charles Carmel in 1912/1913. It is one of the few carousels remaining with a working ring dispenser that allows riders on the outside row of horses to reach out and grab steel rings as they pass with the rider who successfully grabs it receiving a prize of the cost of the ride in tickets.

Meanwhile, train lovers in your party bus vacation group can delight in “Old Smokey”, an anthracite coal-fueled miniature steam locomotive narrow gauge train ride, whose track meanders through part of the park. There’s also “Pioneer”, a gasoline-powered narrow gauge railroad installed around 1960 that track travels from near the edge of the park into a wooded area where there are feeders for viewing the local wildlife.

Now, no visit to Knoebels would be complete without a visit to their award-winning Haunted Mansion Dark ride, there are numerous other rides and attractions that will keep the whole family occupied with something they’ll love during the bus rental visit.

So gather the family up, book your ticket with Bus Rental PA and get ready for a whole lot of rides, games and fun galore.