{"id":179453,"date":"2026-04-29T18:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179453\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:18:40","slug":"these-pennsylvania-roller-coasters-and-theme-parks-were-voted-best-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179453\/","title":{"rendered":"These Pennsylvania roller coasters and theme parks were voted best in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual lists of <a href=\"https:\/\/10best.usatoday.com\/awards\/best-theme-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">top theme parks<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/10best.usatoday.com\/awards\/best-roller-coaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">roller coasters<\/a>\u00a0in the country have been released by USA Today 10Best, and Pennsylvania is well represented.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A panel of experts nominated theme parks and roller coasters for their respective top-10 lists and then let readers vote for the winners. Here are this year&#8217;s results.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Best roller coasters in the country<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania is home to the best roller coaster in the country, according to USA Today readers. Phoenix at Knoebels in Elysburg was voted into the No. 1 spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This classic wooden roller coaster at Knoebels proves that newer, taller, and faster aren&#8217;t always better,&#8221; USA Today writes. &#8220;Phoenix offers panoramic views of the surrounding hills, as well as thrills in the form of a double out-and-back layout and speeds of 45 miles per hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Phantom&#8217;s Revenge at Kennywood in West Mifflin is not far behind on the list, securing the second spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Time Traveler at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, rounds out the top three.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also in Pennsylvania, Ravine Flyer II at Waldameer and Water World in Erie comes in at No. 5 and Wildcat&#8217;s Revenge at Hersheypark ranked 10th best.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Best theme parks in the country<\/p>\n<p>Silver Dollar City earned the title of best theme park in the country, but Knoebels came in second. Lost Island Themepark in Waterloo, Iowa, ranked third.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania had a few other theme parks on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Kennywood came in fourth, with USA Today writing that the park near Pittsburgh has &#8220;oodles of history and a collection of iconic rides,&#8221; including wooden coasters like the Racer and modern thrills like the Steel Curtain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hersheypark in Hershey also made the ranking, capping things off in the 10th spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual lists of top theme parks\u00a0and roller coasters\u00a0in the country have been released by USA Today 10Best,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1509,9486,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-179453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-hersheypark","tag-kennywood","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179453","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=179453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}