The park featured fairy tale buildings and characters, but no mechanical rides originally.

Smaller-scale mechanical rides were gradually added, including a circle swing ride.

Children's entertainment hasn't been forgotten and a child's fair, including mechanical rides, swings and a roundabout will also be operating on the site.

The park, which the Theodore Roosevelt Association donated to the town in 1942, actually has a formal restriction against any mechanical rides.

In fact, there's not a single mechanical ride on the grounds.

In the early 1900s, a few mechanical rides and a carousel were added.

The park remained popular throughout the 1950s, 1960s and into the late 1970s, when finally some of the earlier attractions began to be replaced by modern mechanical rides.

The park features computer learning games and Muppet characters and is one of the few parks to have no mechanical rides.

The park sells daily passes for $5.00 and $10.00 that include all mechanical rides, though only the $10.00 pass includes entry to the roller coaster.

By the 1880s, Dorney had added a small zoo, gardens, and a number of mechanical rides, marking the enterprise's beginning as an amusement park.