BRAINERD — Perhaps nothing beats whooshing down a snow-covered hill for thrills, especially as a child. Toboggan slides were once located on Front Street and they were two blocks long, from South ...

Toboggan runs are not unusual in parks. At one time, there was one at Pinchot State Park. A newspaper article from Jan. 21, 1887 – discovered by a reader – talks about the construction of the slide.

The two toboggan slides in the Dan Ryan Woods are choked with bramble, surrounded on all sides by a barbed-wire fence. But Marge Polo remembers the excitement of a snowy winter day, when bundled-up ...

EAGLES MERE, Pa. — This is the first time the Eagles Mere Volunteer Fire Company has been able to have the event in more than a decade. Volunteers run the toboggan slide. They tell Newswatch 16, ...

Volunteers with the Eagles Mere Volunteer Fire Department and other volunteer fire companies in Sullivan County construct a toboggan slide at the community’s lakefront on Jan. 25, 2025. The ...

The small knot of people moves quickly at first as it begins to ascend the 126 steps to the top of Swallow Cliff near Palos Park. With each step the group moves more slowly, steamy vapor from their ...

EAGLES MERE, Pa. — The Eagles Mere Toboggan Slide was back after ten years, but now it's gone once more. “It was crazy, there's people coming up here every weekend, lines longer than you could imagine ...

For some time, I have been trying to locate information and photos pertaining to a large and unique toboggan slide that I vividly remember existing in Island Park in the middle 1940s. I had enlisted ...

EAGLES MERE — For the first time in 11 years toboggans will be shooting across frozen Eagles Mere Lake at speeds up to 45 miles an hour. The slide association announced Wednesday a tentative Jan. 31 ...

An icy chill grips my spine as I sit cross-legged and crammed in the front position of an eight-man toboggan that’s at the top of a very steep and very long ice slide in the heart of this quaint ...

Eagles Mere Toboggan Slide hasn’t been open since 2014. But it opened again Saturday, offering a thrilling, quarter-mile ride from the top of Lake Avenue in Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, down onto Eagles ...