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When something goes wrong at an amusement park, a certain silence descends. Something heavier than the fleeting collective gasp that…

Setting an alarm for five in the morning to go to an amusement park has a subtly ridiculous quality. However,…

Every roller coaster has a moment just before the first drop when your stomach rises, your grip tightens, and you…

When you stand on the deck of most cruise ships, you realize that the ocean itself is the spectacle. The…

There’s something about a state fair that gives people the impression that nothing bad can happen, at least for a…

Getting a child to learn something challenging without them realizing it takes a certain kind of quiet genius. You wouldn’t…

In the summer of 2017, Tyler Jarrell, then sixteen, was hurled from a ride at the Ohio State Fair in…

A photograph of the Verrückt waterslide rising 17 stories above Schlitterbahn in Kansas City, Kansas, can be found somewhere in…

The way carnival season arrives in Louisiana is almost ritualistic, with children crammed up against the gate waiting their turn,…

Almost every serious roller coaster has a moment when something changes in you rather than the ride. The harness clicked.…