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 ...

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 ...

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. — 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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

EAGLES MERE -- There will be no toboggan slide at Eagles Mere again this year not for the lack of ice but due to COVID-19. The decision was made in mid-December long before it was known if there would ...

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 ...

Eagles Mere Toboggan Slide hasn’t been open since 2014. But it opened again Saturday, offering a thrilling, quarter-mile ride from the top of Lake Avenue in Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, down onto Eagles ...