{"id":123828,"date":"2026-02-26T06:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123828\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:28:08","slug":"kennywood-restores-iconic-trash-can-for-upcoming-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123828\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennywood restores iconic trash can for upcoming season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kennywood says it has restored an iconic trash can that&#8217;s become a fan favorite ahead of the park&#8217;s upcoming 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The park announced Wednesday that &#8220;Leo the Paper Eating Lion&#8221; has undergone an extensive refurbishment project during the offseason and that the iconic trash receptable has gotten a full repainting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As part of the process, our hungry lion&#8217;s entire body has been added back to his carriage,&#8221; the park said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kdka-kennywood-park-leo-the-lion-trash-can.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"kdka-kennywood-park-leo-the-lion-trash-can.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Kennywood Park says it has restored its iconic &#8220;Leo the Paper Eating Lion&#8221; trash can ahead of the upcoming 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>                Kennywood Park<\/p>\n<p>Kennywood said that the popular trash can that features a friendly-looking lion in a circus cage first debuted at the park in 1964 and since then, has been collecting paper cups, paper napkins, chewing gum wrappers, and other paper products.<\/p>\n<p>People going to Kennywood can find the circus-themed trash can in the park&#8217;s Kiddieland area, not far from the Pizza Warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He eats paper plates, too,&#8221; the park added.<\/p>\n<p>As Kennywood is preparing to open for the 2026 season, the park is holding open interviews on Saturdays through April 4.<\/p>\n<p>The park is set to open for the season on April 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kennywood says it has restored an iconic trash can that&#8217;s become a fan favorite ahead of the park&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9486,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-123828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-kennywood","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}