Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Adventureland celebrates its 50th anniversary, we're taking a look back at past rides from the Iowa amusement park.

You’d never know that Adventureland, the state-of-the-art amusement park in Farmingdale, was once a 6-acre chicken and vegetable farm. Since Alvin Cohen and Herb Budin opened the park in 1962, ...

Adventureland opened for the season March 22, and visitors can look forward to a new ride coming this spring: Wave Twister. The ride is part of Phase Two of a $10 million, five-phase plan to redevelop ...

Adventureland Inn, the hotel that accompanied Iowa's largest theme park for more than 50 years, will not reopen its doors. The company announced Wednesday that Adventureland Inn in Altoona will close ...

Good things come to those who wait — and visitors to Adventureland in 2026 should finally be able to experience the new Wave Twister ride that was supposed to open last season. Two additional new ...

PROBABLY THINK ABOUT RUNNING A ROAD RACE ON THE STREET, BUT THAT’S NOT THE CASE FOR THE FLY THE PARK FIVE K. SEE, I THINK I’VE TRIED THIS FIVE K IT’S AN EVENT HAPPENING AT ADVENTURELAND NEXT MONTH.

As Adventureland celebrates its 50th anniversary, we're taking a look back at past rides from the Iowa amusement park. Adventureland has more than 90 rides and a waterpark. Most recently, the ...