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100_4043.jpg (54452 bytes)Knobeles (spelled Knoebels) Amusement Park & Resort is a family owned and operated amusement park, picnic grove and campground.  Knobeles is located in a wooded valley, in Central Pennsylvania.  The valley with its creek-fed swimming hole, became a popular picnic destination in the early part of the 20th century.  Originally known as "Peggy's Farm," it attracted weekend travelers and horse-drawn wagons. Henry Knoebel, who had been farming the area, tended to the horses as the travels enjoyed the swimming hole.  He later began to sell soft drinks, snacks and ice cream to the visitors.  Henry Knoebel leased plots of land along the creeks for use as summer cottage sites as the popularity of "Knoebel's Grove" grew and people came from afar to visit the picnic grove.  Today some of these original, privately owned cottages, as well as cottages that Henry Knoebel himself built and rented, still exist in the park.

In 1926 Knoebels Grove officially became known as Knoebels Amusement Park. In that year, Henry Knoebel added a restaurant, a steam-powered Philadelphia Toboggan Company carousel and a few simple games to picnic his grove for visitors to enjoy. On July 4 of that same year, he opened a large concrete swimming pool on the same site of the old swimming hole that attached the original visitors years before.  The pool was named "The Crystal Pool" and featured a filtration system that provided clean water instead of the muddy creek water.  Since then the park has developed around the pool and Pine Swamp Road that ran through the park was closed to vehicular traffic and became the midway.  Knobeles added 50 more rides in addition to assorted games, concession stands, a campground covered 160 acres with 500 sites and other attractions over the years to become one of the most favored family oriented parks the U.S.

 

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Knoebels Amusement Park is indeed our all time favorite park.  Our fascination brings us back season after season. 

The following pages of pictures are just some of Knoebels rides and attractions.  Enjoy the pictures and if you would like to see a close up of the picture, just click on it!  

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Note: We are not affiliated with Knoebels Amusement Park.  We are life-long, multi-generation fans of the Knoebels Grove and continue to follow what is happening at the park and visit year after year.  To contact Knoebels Grove directly, please visit their website or call them at 1-800-487-4386.
     
     
     

 

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