Scarywood Haunted Nights has announced “Nightmares” – a new haunt for 2026! This will be the single largest investment in Scarywood history, and the biggest haunt the event has ever created. In this post, we’ll cover the official announcement, and share our overall first impressions. For those unfamiliar, Planet Zombie has been officially retired from […]

This past week we made what was very likely our last visit to Wild Waves Theme Park ever. In this trip report we’ll share photos, overall impressions, and a play-by-play of how we approached our day. We’ll cover what worked, what didn’t, and some thoughts on what we would do differently. Our goal here is […]

In February of 2001 – over 25 years ago – we launched Roller Coaster Alley with the simple dream of being the best source of information for Silverwood Theme Park fans. We could never have dreamed it would continue for this long, but it’s been an amazing journey! We wanted to take a moment to […]

The Roller Coaster Alley crew made it out to Silverwood recently, and we’re nearly certain that we set a record for ourselves. Across our many summer visits over the years, this might well have been the coldest, rainiest, and windiest of them all! Despite the weather, we managed to take solid advantage of the low […]

Wild Waves Theme and Water Park is about to open for the 2026 season, and as you likely already know, this will be their final year of operations. In this post, we’ll share details of the announcement, some park history, and our commentary about the future of the land, rides, and more. If you had […]

To be fair, at this point it’s several mornings after. But there’s good reason for that. As we mentioned in our previous post about the official announcement, despite the fact that we all knew this was coming – eventually – it’s hits different when it really happens. Getting into the weeds a bit, we’ve contemplated […]

Silverwood surprised the theme park industry with a major announcement that our beloved home park will be acquired by Herschend Family Entertainment. In this post, we’ll share the announcement, a bit of background and history, as well as our initial thoughts. We’ll start with the official press release from Herschend: “Atlanta, GA & Athol, ID […]

The Roller Coaster Alley crew made our annual pilgrimage to Scarywood Theme Park this past weekend, and it was quite an adventure to say the least! In this post, we’ll share photos, details about our experience, and our commentary about everything this “Bigger and Badder” version for 2025 has to offer! We’re going to try […]

A few new surprises have been added to the lineup for Scarywood for 2025. In this post, we’ll cover the details (at least, what we know so far!) and share our thoughts on these offerings. Let’s start with the info from the press release – it’s a long one, so we are only including the […]

2025 marked the 125th Anniversary of the Washington State Fair held annually in Puyallup, Washington. For the big milestone, several big changes were made to the fairgrounds and surrounding infrastructure. In this post, we’ll share some photos and our thoughts on each. In the spirit of being fully transparent here: one of us lives literally […]