MASON, Ohio -- Kings Island amusement park in Ohio says its Vortex steel roller coaster is closing permanently this year after giving thrills to riders for 33 seasons. When it opened in 1987, the ...

MASON, Ohio — If you've visited Kings Island in the last three decades, chances are you've ridden "Vortex." Now you can own your very own piece of the amusement park's one-time signature roller ...

Amusement parks play an endless game of one-upmanship, always searching for the tallest and fastest new thrills. However, for every Orion, the giga coaster that opened in 2020, Kings Island and ...

A roller coaster has been shut down at an Ohio amusement park because a chain that pulls the cars broke over the Fourth of July weekend. Spokesman Don Helbig at Kings Island near Cincinnati says the ...

MASON — Kings Island will be making improvements to more than 20 percent of the track for ‘The Beast’ roller coaster. Crews began working on the 46-year-old wooden track after the 2024 season ...

Can stand-up roller coasters make a comeback? More than a dozen stand-up roller coasters once ran at theme parks across the United States. But no parks have installed a new model since Six Flags Over ...