The wooden roller coaster was first constructed in 1977 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. It opened to the public in 1978. The Tornado is named after the famous tornado that delayed the ...

Spotify It was once Minnesota’s Coney Island. A century ago this May, a wooden roller coaster began rumbling high above Lake Minnetonka as Excelsior Amusement Park was born. From that opening 1925 ...