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Canobie Lake Park is an amusement park in Salem, New Hampshire. Originally opening as a trolley park on the shore of Canobie Lake on 1902, the park most prominently featured botanical gardens. The park declined in popularity after the automobile became the most popular mode of travel in the United States, but three local families now run the park, which draws visitors from throughout the New England region.
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- Canobie lake park tour with drew the intern
- Yankee cannonball front seat on ride hd pov canobie lake park
- History
- Rides and attractions
- Events
- Incidents
- References
Canobie Lake Park's age has resulted in a mixture of attractions from different time periods. One of the park's oldest attractions is a wooden roller coaster named Yankee Cannonball, which dates back to 1936, and is one of the most notable features of the park. The Canobie Corkscrew was originally built in 1975 for the Old Chicago amusement park in Illinois, as the "Chicago Loop". Arrow Development designed the Canobie Corkscrew, and the company was known at the time for building roller coasters with multiple inversions. The ride was relocated to Canobie Lake Park in 1987. The steel coaster named Untamed is a more modern variety of ride, known as a Euro-Fighter, and has various inversions unique to modern roller coasters. Canobie Lake Park's age and history have inspired Stephen King to base parts of his novel Joyland on the park.
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History
Canobie Lake Park opened on August 23, 1902, as a trolley park for the Massachusetts Northeast Street Railway Company. The amusement park has opened every summer since then. In the park's early years, it was known for its flower gardens, promenades and gentle attractions. After the decline of trolley as a mode of travel, the park declined in popularity. Its popularity later recovered, and the Yankee Cannonball was installed, becoming one of the park's most popular attractions for decades. Today, the park is owned by three families, who purchased the park in the late 1950s.
Some films and novels have used Canobie Lake Park as a setting or filming location. Stephen King, an American author of horror novels, based the amusement park in his book Joyland on Canobie Lake Park. A resident of the nearby state of Maine, King visited after searching for a park "that was nice and clean and sunlit, but wasn’t too big". During a visit in 2012, King took photographs inside the dark ride attraction, "Mine of Lost Souls", because he wanted to incorporate a haunted dark ride into his novel. The park was also used as a filming location for the 2013 movie Labor Day, based on the coming-of-age novel Labor Day by Joyce Maynard.
Rides and attractions
Canobie Lake Park features a variety of rides and attractions. The Yankee Cannonball, a 1930s-era wooden roller coaster, is one of the park's best known rides. The park also has a looping, steel roller coaster named the Canobie Corkscrew, designed by Arrow Dynamics. Originally manufactured in 1975, the Canobie Corkscrew operated at Old Chicago from 1975 to 1980 as the "Chicago Loop", at the Alabama State Fairgrounds as "Corkscrew" from 1982 to 1986, before moving to Canobie Lake in 1987. The Canobie Corkscrew is one of the first steel looping roller coasters manufactured in the world and is part of a series of Arrow corkscrew models produced from 1975-1979.
Other thrill rides in Canobie Lake Park include Starblaster, an S&S Double Shot. The Starblaster was opened in 2002, replacing the Moon Orbiter. The park also features a rotor ride named "Turkish Twist", and a shoot-the-chutes ride named "The Boston Tea Party". Canobie has one of the few dark rides in New England, named "Mine of Lost Souls". Passengers board a mine car and are transported into the depths of a dark mine, which begins to collapse. Another flat ride at Canobie is the "Psychodrome", a 12-car Scrambler ride located in a dome, with lighting, music and special effects.
The park once had a simulator ride named "USA Missile", built early in the Space Age by John Taggart and Sam Daugherty. Passengers sit facing the nose of the rocket, which is then inclined. A movie is shown on a screen at the front as a simulation of space flight. This ride was originally built for Palisades Park in 1958, where it was known as the "Ansco Rocket Ship". Once it had been moved to Canobie, it was painted white with an American flag motif and renamed to "USA Missile". Some time later, it was repainted again to mimic the markings used on such launch vehicles as the Saturn rockets. It has since been closed down, and was left standing but not operating.
In 2011, the park added Untamed, a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter 320+ model. This is the fourth Euro-Fighter to be added in the United States, the only one in the Northeast, and the first roller coaster to be opened in Canobie Lake Park since the Canobie Corkscrew in 1987. The ride features a 72-foot vertical lift and a beyond vertical drop at a 97 degree angle, as well as three inversions: a vertical loop, an Immelmann loop, and a zero-G roll.
The park added Equinox in 2012, a ride that lifted and spun riders on a giant mechanical arm. Despite the ride's popularity, it was shut down in 2014 after persistent mechanical problems left the ride operating "sporadically". The park has stated that safety was not an issue.
Events
Canobie Lake Park holds many events in the park throughout the year, including live performances and fireworks shows. The park's Dancehall Theater has hosted performers such as Duke Ellington, Sonny & Cher and Frank Sinatra. The park has multiple other venues for live entertainment, including the Country Stage, Midway Stage, and Dancehall Theater. The Canobie Ramblers occasionally perform at the Log Flume Gazebo. On certain weekends in September and October, Canobie Lake Park holds ScrEEEmfest, a special event run in the afternoon that features Canobie's most popular rides plus five walk-through haunted attractions. Past "haunts" have included Merriment Incorporated, The Dead Shed, The Village, Head Hunters at Cannibal Lake, Cannibal Island, Demons of Darkness, and Virus.