Last-of-its-kind Ferris Wheel Returns Home After Nearly 100 Years on the Jersey Shore
By Colson Thayer
Published on April 1, 2026.
The Asbury Park Wheel, a 78-foot-tall ferris wheel that was a fixture of Asburys Park, N.J. for nearly a century, has been reintroduced in its original home of Pennsylvania. The Schuylkill River Heritage Center at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, acquired the wheel's original components in 2008 and began a $2.2 million effort to re-installate the wheel. The restoration of the wheel’s original steel components was more challenging than anticipated, with teams using trial and error to piece it back together. The wheel will initially be used as an art installation but may possibly operate as a ride again.
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