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Little Leaper

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Status
  
Operating

Model
  
Little Dipper

Height
  
14 m

Inversions
  
0

Manufacturer
  
Allan Herschell Company

Type
  
Steel

Track layout
  
Oval

Track length
  
137 m

Park
  
Lakemont Park

Designer
  
Bradley and Kaye

Similar
  
Skyliner, Leap‑The‑Dips, Wild Kitty, Raging Wolf Bobs, Abyss

Crazy mouse little leaper at steel pier


Little Leaper is a steel roller coaster at Lakemont Park in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It's a standard Allan Herschel Little Dipper kiddie coaster just for kids. The park currently does not allow teens and adults on it.

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Incident

  • On September 2, 1991, Chris Wickfield, a seventeen-year-old ride attendant, got dragged away by the coaster and lost his right leg after it got mangled between the train and its track/chain. The incident is featured on Rescue 911.

    • References

    Little Leaper Wikipedia
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