Trailblazer is a family roller coaster at

Hersheypark Hersheypark (known as Hershey Park until 1970) is a family theme park located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, about east of Harrisburg, and west of Philadelphia. The park was founded in 1906 by Milton S. Hershey as a leisure park for the employees of ...

in Hershey,

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. It is located in the Pioneer Frontier section of Hersheypark, just below Storm Runner. The ride is notable for being the second-oldest operating coaster in the park, after the

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History

According to a 1974 Souvenir book printed before the coaster was finalized, the ride was supposed to feature two lifts.Hershey's Guidebook, Western Publishing Company, 1974. The ride received two brand new trains in 2003 built by

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. The main difference is the new cars had individual lap bars for each seat, rather than the single "t-bar" lap bars for each pair of seats.

Ride experience

The coaster reaches speeds of up to 35 mph, and features a helix that circles 4 times. The mid-course brake zone is nearly level with Storm Runner, and the queue for that ride extends inside Trailblazer's first drop.

References

External links

* Hersheypark Roller coasters introduced in 1974 {{Hersheypark-stub