"News Plus Notes" Story

Our friends at News Plus Notes blog came and visited us toward the end of the season. They came on a great day and really enjoyed the park.

Waldameer was one of many stops on their journey but hopefully their favorite. Here's the story about us on their blog. They took some great pictures.

Rainbow Gardens Events

St. Patrick's Irish Festival - Fri. 09/18/09 ; 5:00pm - 10:30pm
St. Patrick's Irish Festival - Sat. 09/19/09 ; 11:30am - 10:30pm
St. Patrick's Irish Festival - Sun. 09/20/09 ; 10:00am - 6:00pm
Juvenile Diabetes Walk - Sun. 10/04/09 - 8:00am ; 5:00pm
Millcreek Kiwanis Antique Show - Sat. 10/17/09 ; 9:30am - 4:30pm
Classy 100 80's Dance - Sat. 10/24/09 ; 9:00pm - 1:00am
NWPA Duck Hunters Fish Fry - Sun. 10/25/09 ; 3:00pm - 8:00pm
Train Show - Sun. 11/01/09 ; 10:00am - 4:00pm
Zukor Club Gun Raffle - Sat. 11/07/09 ; 12:00pm - 6:00pm
WQLN Craft Show - Fri. 11/13/09 ; 1:00pm - 6:00pm
WQLN Craft Show - Sat. 11/14/09 ; 10:00am - 5:00pm
WQLN Craft Show - Sun. 11/15/09 ; 10:00am - 5:00pm
Disco Spectacular - Sat. 11/21/09 ; 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Parrothead Group Dance - Wed. 11/25/09 ; 8:00pm-12:00am

Last Picture of 2009

Here's a picture taken on Labor Day. Not too shabby of a view.

Golden Ticket Award Cermony in CA

President Steve Gorman and his wife, Nancy, attended the award ceremony to present the award for the Best New Ride for 2009. Last year, the Ravine Flyer II won this prestigious award. This year, the award went to the "Prowler" wooden coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas, MO.

Also, some good news. The Ravine Flyer II climbed the Top Wooden Coasters list. Last year, we were 11th so we didn't make it. But now, we're ranked 6th!

The Coaster Critic

Joel Bullock, aka The Coaster Critic, stopped by the park recently to ride the Ravine Flyer II. He's ridden nearly 200 coasters in over 20 parks. His website received the Best Theme Park Blog Coaster Web Award. He was also featured in the New York Times about Pennsylvania's coasters. So basically, he's a pretty big deal.

The Ravine Flyer II is his 5th favorite wooden coaster and 8th favorite coaster overall.

He also interviewed President Steve Gorman while he was here. This is a portion of the interview:

Waldameer's Plans for 2010
Steve Gorman shared an exclusive during our interview. When asked about plans for 2010, he confirmed rumors that the park was looking to add a flat ride. He cautioned that it depended on the park's performance this year; which of course can be affected by the weather. The flat ride they plan on adding will be a chair swing known as Yo-Yo.


Check out the full interview.
Check out his website.

Four More Days of Fun!

We're only open four, count 'em - four, more days for the 2009 season!

We're open Friday Sept. 4 - Monday Sept. 7. We also have a promotion for these last days:

Buy 1 Get 1 for just $5

Buy 1 Combo Pass and get another one of equal or lesser value for just $5 with a coupon from the newspaper (week of promotion) or Waldameer's website or a register receipt from CVS.

The weather is supposed to be sunny and in the 70's so bring your sunscreen!

Park Patrol!

Paul Ruben, a friend of the park, writes for Park World magazine and is starting a new feature called "Park Patrol." Each feature shows a picture of a park and comments by the park's operator. The point is to see "everyday scenes through the operator's eye."

Paul chose us for his next "Park Patrol" and owner Paul Nelson will be commenting. Here's a link to a previous article by Paul Ruben.

I'll make sure to share a link when our "Park Patrol" gets published!