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 […]

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 […]

The Roller Coaster Alley crew made a recent visit to Silverwood and Boulder Beach, and we’ve got a lot to share, so let’s jump right in! TREMORS 2.0 REVIEW We’ll start off with the big news for 2025: the seismic upgrades made to Tremors roller coaster! You can read our previous article for all the […]

The Roller Coaster Alley team made our annual pilgrimage out to Scarywood for the 2024 season this past weekend. We’re excited to share all the details of what’s new, what’s returned, and everything in between…so let’s jump right in! The biggest change for 2024 is the addition of the new haunt – The Swine. This […]

Last week we had a chance to finally visit Playland at the PNE for 2024, to check out the new ThunderVolt launch coaster. In this post, we’ll share photos, our review of the new attraction, and our overall impressions of Playland from our visit. We’ll also share tips, suggestions, and lessons learned, in case you […]

Boulder Beach Waterpark at Silverwood offers private cabanas to guests for an upcharge fee during each day of operations. We recently (finally) got a chance to rent one of these and see what it was like. In this review, we’ll share all the juicy details of our experience, some photos of our specific space, and […]

We are back from a recent visit to Silverwood Theme Park and Boulder Beach Waterpark, where we were able to spend a couple days checking out everything around both parks. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover – from the latest at Emerald Forest, several food and entertainment updates, and a possible tease of […]

The Roller Coaster Alley team was invited to Silverwood’s media preview and ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Emerald Forest area of Boulder Beach water park on Saturday June 8th, 2024.  We’ve got a great photo update for you from our visit including initial rides on Eagle Hunt, so let’s jump right in! We arrived […]

The Roller Coaster Alley team was at Silverwood this past weekend, and we got a special glimpse into the nearly completed Emerald Forest expansion at Boulder Beach. In this post, we’ll share photos, insights, and some brief commentary on this blockbuster project, along with a few other small updates from around the park. The new […]

The Roller Coaster Alley crew headed out to Scarywood this past weekend, to check out this year’s iteration of the event. In this post, we’ll share photos, tips & tricks, and our overall thoughts on how 2023 measured up. 2023 marks the 15th year of Scarywood’s operations – a truly remarkable milestone. It seems utterly […]