Sanatoga Park
Sanatoga Park
Pottstown,
Montgomery Co., Pa.


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Sanatoga Park is a lovely wooded park in the town of Sanatoga in Montgomery Co., Pa. Its 54 acres surround a beautifully calm, cool lake.

The park is luxuriously green and the drive through the park alongside the lake is pleasant and refreshing. It's a wonderful spot to get away from the summer heat or to forget your workday worries.

The park now contains a baseball field, a basketball court, a kiddie playground, picnic areas, and boating and fishing on the lake. There is also a bandshell where concerts can be heard throughout the summer.

But at one time, the park also contained an amusement park. There were roller coasters, a circle swing, and other rides and booths. There was a bridge across the dam, so people could stroll along both sides of the lake. The park also contained a race car track.

A trolley from Pottstown would bring people to the park over a bridge across the creek.

In 1939, when the roller coaster was to be demolished, it was bought by the A. D. Moyer Lumber Co., who promptly tore it down and sold the lumber to customers in Gilbertsville.

Today, only a few remnants of the amusement park can be found in the woods on the hillside. Some concrete blocks that once served as foundations for rides, and a couple of other foundations of long-gone structures.


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Roller Coaster - 1924
Notice: Misspelling "Saratoga"
Rides Boat Landing
Sanatoga Lake Dam
Notice: Misspelling "Saratoga"
Boat Landing Sanatoga Lake
Sanatoga Lake Auditorium Another View of the Park

Another View of the Lake - 1910

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Summer 2001
Remnants of the Racetrack

A Piece of the Guardrail My Truck on a Piece of the Racetrack

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Sanatoga Lake @ 1913
Taken by John Ernest Spare
reporter for the Pottstown Mercury, Pottstown Herald and editor for the Reading Eagle
Donated to APN by R.S.

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Created- Sun, June 11, 2000
Revised- Thurs, Sep 21, 2006

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