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ride Lake Placid Bobsled
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- Name
- Lake Placid Bobsled
- Status
- Demolished
- Closing
- No
- Park
- Palisades Amusement Park
- Category
- Roller Coaster
- Categories
- Roller Coaster
- Description
- A wooden bobsled coaster designed by John Norman Bartlett, in which free-rolling trains ran loose through a banked wooden trough rather than on fixed track — a 'flying turns' style ride. Named for the 1932 Olympic bobsled run, it operated for roughly a decade.
- Designer
- Joseph A. McKee
- Closing date
- 1946-01-01
- Coaster type
- Wood
- Opening date
- 1937-01-01
- Opening year
- 1937
- Track material
- Wood
- Attraction type
- Ride
- Intensity level
- Thrill
- Support material
- Wood
- Closing from park
- No
- Source unit system
- Imperial
- Closing date precision
- Year Only
- Opening date precision
- Year Only