BRAINERD — Perhaps nothing beats whooshing down a snow-covered hill for thrills, especially as a child. Toboggan slides were once located on Front Street and they were two blocks long, from South ...

Toboggan runs are not unusual in parks. At one time, there was one at Pinchot State Park. A newspaper article from Jan. 21, 1887 – discovered by a reader – talks about the construction of the slide.

EAGLES MERE, Pa. — The Eagles Mere Toboggan Slide is back for the first time in over a decade in Sullivan County. "Excited, excited. It's been 10 years, so we got to dust out the cobwebs and remember ...

Volunteers with the Eagles Mere Volunteer Fire Department and other volunteer fire companies in Sullivan County construct a toboggan slide at the community’s lakefront on Jan. 25, 2025. The ...

Volunteers cut blocks of ice from a remote part of the lake in Sullivan County to make the slide. EAGLES MERE-The Eagles Mere toboggan slide was built Saturday but it is uncertain if it will open ...

For some time, I have been trying to locate information and photos pertaining to a large and unique toboggan slide that I vividly remember existing in Island Park in the middle 1940s. I had enlisted ...

For the first time in 11 years, the Eagles Mere toboggan slide is open for riders. When the winter conditions are right in Eagles Mere, the volunteer fire company builds a toboggan slide that travels ...

With the thermometer hovering just above the zero mark and a wind from the northwest which stabbed like a driven nail, if one stood about for long, over 800 tobogganists, skaters, skiers, snowshoers, ...

Snow glistening in the sun. The spray of ice crystals on rosy cheeks. The whoosh of the downhill slope. Yes, the great Canadian craze of tobogganing had hit our fair city. Tobogganing beat roller ...

It’s not a secret that celebrity moms face a lot of scrutiny on social media. Whether it’s how they hold their baby to what their child’s hair looks like to how properly their toddler is strapped in ...

EAGLES MERE, Pa. — This is the first time the Eagles Mere Volunteer Fire Company has been able to have the event in more than a decade. Volunteers run the toboggan slide. They tell Newswatch 16, ...