Photo TR: DelGrosso's Amusement Park, July 28th.

[AmyUD06]

So I'm getting caught up on posting reports, and realized that I never posted my brief report from DelGrosso's, which I stopped in at on my way back from Cedar Point in late July.  Seeing as the last report from this place was posted in 2013, I figured I might as well provide a bit of an update.  Without any further ado...

DelGrosso's Amsusment Park, July 28th, 2022

DelGrosso's is a small, family-owned, amusement park located about 15 minutes north of Lakemont Park (home to Leap-the-Dips) and about 2 hours west east of Kennywood.  If you're going to either park from the east, it's worth a stop, but honestly there isn't really a whole lot to say about this park.  It's small, it's free-admission and either wristband or pay-per-ride, and has two mediocre coasters:  a Wacky Worm (that adults can ride) and a Reverchon spinning mouse.  I basically grabbed the coasters, took a bunch of pictures, and headed on home, but not before getting the best theme park cheesesteak I've ever had from a restaurant in the water park, which happens to have an old-school up-hill water slide.  Unfortunately I was very short on available time and didn't have enough to spend in the water park, which actually seemed quite nice.  Enjoy the photos!

Entrance sign and the foot bridge over the roadway separating the water park from the rides.

A few classic rides which are slowly disappearing:

Another also ever-disappearing sight at parks:

A theme I had never seen before for a Rock-n-Roll:

They have a ton of kids X-goes-round rides.

A classic mini-Turtle.

 

Some history plaques:

I also really liked their height grading system:

And one of the ticket booths:

The water park, as I said, seemed very recently overhauled and very nice:

Yes, it was "delizioso"!

They do not mess around.

And finally, the aforementioned uphill slide.

Anyway, I know most of you find small parks like this mostly pretty boring, but I hope some of you enjoyed.

 

[Living_Dead]

I visited Delgrosso's growing up, and it was basically the same. We also had this indoor spinning attraction which is no longer there. It was a fun little park, I remember way back when they purchased the old Myrtle Beach corkscrew (I believe that was the ride), but didn't have the space to build it. It's nice to see the park is still doing pretty well. I remember that one tube slide with the hill always vallying;

[volcano]

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and about 2 hours west of Kennywood. 

East.

[AmyUD06]

25 minutes ago, volcano said:

East.

Yeah, thanks!  Fixed it.

[Chiselphane]

I love charming little parks like these.   The tower of Pisa in the water park is a nice touch.

[Zand]

Do they still have Spaghetti Wednesdays?

We stopped by in 2016 on the way to Lakemont and, as luck would have it, it was Wednesday and they had all you can eat Spaghetti in one of the picnic pavilions.