KENNYWOOD
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Abbreviation: KW)
Parques Reunidos
 Park News - (1/19/2025) Kennywood has confirmed that the park will open for the 2025 season on April 12th as part of a 412 Day celebration. The park’s newest character, Tuft the Kennywood Easter Bunny will make an official debut as part of the park’s Eggcellent Easter Celebration event taking place April 12 to April 27th. According to Kennywood, 2025 will be a BIG year for the park, as they begin their “longest season ever” in the park’s 127-year history, as it will stay open for various events through to Jan. 4, 2026 before going into winter hibernation.
2025 will also mark the return of Steel Curtain to the coaster line-up, though they aren’t ready to give an opening date for that just yet.
On a side note, Kennywood’s sister parks have also set opening dates for their respective 2025 seasons: Idlewild & SoakZone will open on May 17th, and Sandcastle Water Park will open on May 24, 2025.
(1/12/2025) According to the local news, Kennywood will be retiring the park’s small Thomas Town themed area in order to replace it with something new. According to a statement from the park, the Thomas Town area will be replaced with an “updated thematic area complete with five rides” for this season.
No further details are ready to be announced at this time, though note that this is thought to just be a retheme of the existing land, dropping all the Thomas themed elements but will likely still keep the various attractions. This should include keeping the railroad attraction, as many guests forget that it was there before Thomas’s arrival six years ago, and that the park does have a second non-Thomas themed train engine already on site ready to go.
(10/14/2024) Much like Cedar Point did, Kennywood also put some fine roller coaster collectibles up for sale over the weekend.
Authentic pieces of wood that were from the park’s Thunderbolt, Jack Rabbit and Racer wooden roller coasters were also put on sale at the park for $49.99 each during Phantom Fright Fest in the Arcade Gift Shop.
I don’t know if they still have any left for future guests, but these kind of things are always a really fun treasure to have for any roller coaster fan.
2025 - Steel Curtain Returns - (10/5/2024) Kennywood issued a status update on Steel Curtain yesterday to confirm that crews are now on site working to add some new support structures to the closed roller coaster. According to the statement from the park President, “These enhancements and others will increase the coaster’s reliability and longevity, maintaining it for generations of riders to come.” You[‘ll see signs of work to update the coaster over the next several months taking place so they can reopen it in 2025.
You can see a video the park sent out and the full statement in the post below.
(4/17/2024) Kennywood dropped a bit of a bomb this afternoon when the park confirmed the worst fears for this summer’s guests… Steel Curtain will not be operating at all for the 2024 season. According to the video posted to FB (follow this link) the park confirms that they have worked with the manufacturer (S&S) and 3rd party engineers to come up with a plan to essentially “fix” the problems with Steel Curtain. This “extensive modification project” is supposed to be a “long term solution to increase its reliability and longevity.”
So as disappointing as this may be to many who were planning this summer with the hopes of finally getting to ride this monster roller coaster, we can only hope that this finally solves the issues and will let it run reliably for the park at last in 2025.
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