Del Grosso's Amusement Park, Tipton, PA

[TheFugitive]

This is a small amusement park located in northern Blair County, Pennsylvania
(north of Altoona).  It is owned by the Del Grosso Family, which also owns a company
that makes spaghetti sauce, pasta and other Italian specialty food products.

https://www.delgrossos.com/

Formerly known as Bland Park (because it is constructed on the site of a farm that was
owned by the Bland family) it has actually been owned by the Del Grossos since 1946.
They changed the name in 2000 in order to co-brand it with their spaghetti sauce company
(which is pretty strange, as you will note if you visit the website).  Perhaps it was not
a good thing to have your food company associated with anything named "bland"?

My brother just paid a visit with his girlfriend, who got passes from her job.
He said it was a very nice, clean little park.   Bigger than Idlewild but not as big as Kennywood.
Pleasant, pastoral setting (there are only 1000 people in Tipton).  He said the atmosphere is
kind of like Hershey Park, only with tomato sauce (??).

If you pay a visit you should also stop in Altoona and check out Peoples Natural Gas Field,
the home of the AA Eastern League Altoona Curve.  Very cool little stadium?  It sits next door
to another small amusement park called Lakemont Park (two amusement parks in Blair County!)
The right-field wall of the baseball park is side of the roller coaster at Lakemont Park.  Very cool!

[NJxxJon]

I was BORN in Altoona........The train history is amazing.

[TheFugitive]

The AA baseball team, the Altoona Curve, is named after an engineering marvel which allowed
trains to traverse the Allegheny Mountains.

During World War II it was one of the most heavily guarded domestic security sites in the entire country.
If Hitler had been able to sabotage it, east-west shipping would have come to a halt, endangering
war production and indeed, the entire economy.

The hills around it were swarming with troops back then.

[jconsolmagno]

Delgrosso's really should've built the Arrow they had on site for years. Would've transitioned it into a destination for local PA people and coaster enthusiasts