Six Flags Great Escape will retire the Alpine Bobsled ride. Here, guests race down the mountain track from an elevation of 64 feet, reaching a top speed of 35 mph on the 1500-foot course. The Alpine ...

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. — Six Flags Great Escape will retire the unique Olympics-inspired Alpine Bobsled coaster with the ride’s last scheduled run to be Monday, Sept. 4. According to a press release, for ...

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – At the end of the summer, Six Flags Great Escape is retiring an Olympic-scale venerated ride. It’s the Alpine Bobsled’s 25th and final season in use – so get your sledding ...

A century ago, the hilly roads of Mankato naturally lent themselves to sledding. When a little speed and danger were added, young people were ready to participate. Main Street Hill was the favorite.

Roller coaster enthusiasts enter the Alpine Bobsled at Six Flags Great Escape on the ride’s final day of operation on Monday in Queensbury. Roller coaster enthusiasts gather for a group photo by the ...

Old-fashioned horsepower took center stage on Viroqua’s Wild West Days grounds, Saturday, as teamsters offered bobsled rides in celebration of the holiday season. Three teams of horses gave families ...

World champion bobsled driver Kaysha Love of Herriman will never forget the first time she gave the sport a go just five years ago. Then a sprinter for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, track team, ...

BEIJING (AP) — Carlo Valdes is already set up for life after bobsled. He owns a financial planning practice, something he started a few months after the Pyeongchang Olympics. And he could be working ...

BEIJING (KXAN) — For the first time since 1998, the Winter Olympics are due for some rhythm and rhyme. The Jamaican bobsled team still rides the Disney wave after the 1993 movie “Cool Runnings,” ...

Wild West Days will host its annual horse-drawn bobsled rides on the Wild West Days grounds in Viroqua, Saturday, Dec. 17, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hot chocolate, coffee and cookies will be served in a ...

The coaches at the bobsled training camp fumbled for words to accurately describe to Kaysha Love what it feels like to ride inside one of the hollowed-out fiberglass logs as it skids on two thin ...

Dec. 25—A century ago, the hilly roads of Mankato naturally lent themselves to sledding. When a little speed and danger were added, young people were ready to participate. Main Street Hill was the ...