Tags: Amusement Park Attraction, Roller Coaster.
Whirlwind was a steel roller coaster located at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg Pennsylvania. It is a standard production model Vekoma Whirlwind double corkscrew roller coaster featuring a 64-foot (20 m) lift hill and a pair of corkscrews separated by a turn. Overall track length is 1184 feet (361 m). Whirlwind opened at Playland (New York) in 1984 and operated there until 1992. The ride opened at Knoebels in 1993 replacing the Jet Star.