A storm in July 2023 was especially destructive as it blew through Glen Echo Park in Montgomery County, Maryland, toppling trees and knocking out the power at the park for about a week. A sprinkler ...

The National Park Service, which owns the carousel, contracted and paid for the repairs. Carousels and Carvings in Ohio completed the repairs. The carousel is known as a "menagerie carousel" due to ...

Glen Echo Park provides many opportunities for fun, including a puppet theater and Adventure Theatre MTC, which produces ...

For the third monthly Carousel Family Day, the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture and the Washington Conservatory of Music, a nationally accredited community music school in Glen Echo ...

The carousel in Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland, and the carousel originally in Rocky Springs Park, south of Lancaster city, were both manufactured in the early 1900s by G.A. Dentzel Co. in ...

Ilana Trachtman was thinking of getting married at a theme park. Well, a former one. Glen Echo Park hadn't been an amusement park since 1968, but it had transitioned into a cultural destination for ...

The Almanac’s calendar of events portends to bloom with lifting of restrictions as more county residents get vaccinated. On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, the county’s Department of Health and Human services ...

According to Weekend's recent online survey of readers, a whopping 62 percent of you have never been to the historic merry-go-round at Glen Echo Park in Montgomery County. There has never been a ...

A historic and treasured amusement ride — the Glen Echo Carousel — has reopened after nearly two years of repairs and inactivity due to COVID. The colorful carousel, renowned for its realistic, ...

Max Hurley didn't plan to spend the next 25 years caring for a carousel. He was 29 in 1977, between jobs as a construction worker and intrigued by all the cars in the parking lot at Glen Echo Park.