Rocky Glen Park Oct 1998 Views

Rocky Glen Park
aka Rocky Glenn Park
aka New Rocky Glen
aka Ghost Town in the Glen
Moosic (Avoca), Lackawanna County, PA

Photographs as the park looked in October of 1998

All the photographs on this page were taken in late October 1998 at Rocky Glen Park. The park is virtually destroyed. Everything, even things that did not have to be, were demolished. All of the fine stone work which gave Rocky Glen much of it's character was unmercifully wrecked for no obvious reason.

The Might Lightnin (Jet) roller coaster was bulldozed into the parking lot and covered with dirt and debris. Portions are still protruding from the rubble.

It appears that most of the buildings had burned at one time or another. The remains of a restroom which was destroyed into a pile appear in better shape than the restrooms of some operating parks.

There are no standing buildings in the park. All have been destroyed, including those down by the lake. The only thing near the lake is two old coaster car chassis, six or eight whip cars and junk.

If you remember Rocky Glen Park, these photographs will likely make you quite sad. It actually may have been better if a development would have been built. At least the park could have died with some dignity.

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Sign at main parking lot with bus stop under it	Looking into park from the parking lot	Looking into park from parking where main entrance was located

Coaster car chassis in weeds	Coaster car chassis	Coaster car seats

Painted board and hydraulic cables	Whip cars	Whip cars

Bulldozed roller coaster track	roller coaster	The roller coaster was bulldozed into the parking lot and covered with dirt

pool for kiddie boats	General park view	This was once a restroom - fully bulldozed on top of itself

Path down to lake on South side of park	View along lake where buildings once were	Fall view across lake

North skyride support	South skyride support	"cave" at west end of park

General View - North end of park looking east	Raised area near center of park

The safe is still in the middle of the park office	Raised area near center of park	Track for Antique Cars

Raised area near center of park	Raised area near center of park	Much of the stone work is destroyed like this view shows

One of the very few things left intact - basically a big planter	Looking North from center of park	General view on West side

General view	Entrance from parking lot #2 (upper lot)	This is a roof sitting where the coaster was located

Middle raised area	Looking toward back (East) from raised area	Top of park (West side) - coaster would have been in right side of this view

North side looking toward coaster	Middle, back (east side) of park - this was actually a section of the park with rides	Looking toward center of park from entrance

All pictures (c) 1998 Joel Styer