The Turnpike was a ride at

Kennywood Kennywood is an amusement park located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, just southeast of Pittsburgh. The park opened on May 30, 1899, as a trolley park attraction at the end of the Mellon family's Monongahela Street Railway. It was purchased in 1 ...

amusement park in

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, United States. It was introduced in spring 1966. The Turnpike originally had gasoline-powered cars, which were later replaced with electric cars. Kennywood decommissioned the Turnpike in 2010 but announced that the ride would return in the future in a different location. The Turnpike was replaced with a steel coaster called the Sky Rocket.

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