A century ago this May, a wooden roller coaster began rumbling high above Lake Minnetonka as Excelsior Amusement Park was ...

EXCELSIOR – A Savage author has penned a book about the history of the amusement park in Excelsior. In it, he addresses the closing of the park. In “Excelsior Amusement Park: Playground of the ...

Excelsior Coin and Collectibles has a large collection of memorabilia from Excelsior Amusement Park. “When they walk in here and see all this old history, brings back memories,” owner Mark ...

The site, located along Lake Minnetonka's Excelsior Bay, once housed the Excelsior Amusement Park, which closed in the 1970s. DNR seeks to dismiss Lake Minnetonka marina lawsuit Judge sides with ...

the Rolling Stones played to an unimpressed group of fewer than 300 concertgoers at the Danceland Ballroom at Excelsior Amusement Park. When the Stones return to Minneapolis this week for their ...

which was the night after the Rolling Stones played a concert at the Excelsior Amusement Park during their first tour of the United States. The legend, we are told, goes something like this ...

Valleyfair also included a merry-go-round, featuring 46 refurbished hand-carved carousel horses, which came from the Excelsior Amusement Park, its home for the previous 50 years. Valleyfair is ...

They bought the building Leipold's occupies, as well as property across the street, during a slump in the city's economy, two years before the famed Excelsior Amusement Park closed. Excelsior "was ...