Tag: Diggerland USA

Construction Equipment

Diggerland USA to open grown-ups only heavy equipment playground April 2

Though the grownups have always been more than welcome to hop on a machine at New Jersey’s Diggerland USA, the heavy equipment theme park’s many attractions are mostly comprised of compact equipment and aimed at children. But that’s all about to change with the launch of what the country’s only construction theme park is calling Diggerland […]

April 1, 2016

Construction Equipment

Diggerland’s USA’s latest ride lets park goers operate tandem rollers

Ever since the launch of the park, Diggerland USA officials promised that they would keep looking for new heavy equipment rides and attractions to share with patrons. The latest ride for the park, the first and only construction theme park in the U.S., gives kids big and small a chance to operate a compaction roller. […]

February 1, 2016

Construction Equipment

Diggerland USA adds world’s fastest backhoe, 8-wheeled amphibious ARGOs to list of construction-themed attractions

Diggerland USA, the first and only construction equipment theme park, has kicked off its second season with a bang, adding to its long list of rides and attractions for kids young and old to enjoy. Earlier this month, JCB, which supplies the majority of the heavy equipment that make up the park’s rides, celebrated Diggerland’s […]

June 19, 2015

Construction Equipment

Diggerland USA unleashes a fleet of JCB WorkMax UTVs as the construction theme park’s newest ride

Making good on its promise to continue adding new heavy equipment for patrons to get behind the controls of, Diggerland USA, the country’s first and only construction equipment theme park, has added a fleet of JCB utility terrain vehicles to its lineup of attractions. RELATED: Inside Diggerland USA: First look at the rides of the […]

March 30, 2015

Roadbuilding

PHOTOS, VIDEO: Take a sneak peek at the first construction theme park in the nation

As the owners of Sambe Construction, the Girlya family has seen many different types of  projects over the 30-year history of the company. Since emigrating to the U.S. from the Soviet Union in the late 1970s, father Samuel Girlya along with wife Betya and sons Ilya and Yan have built schools, municipal buildings and even […]

May 26, 2014

Construction Equipment

Inside Diggerland USA: First look at the rides of the nation’s first construction theme park in action (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

No. 4 Story in 2014 « No. 5 No. 3 »     As the owners of Sambe Construction, the Girlya family has seen many different types of projects over the 30-year history of the company. Since emigrating to the U.S. from the Soviet Union in the late 1970s, father Samuel Girlya along with wife […]

May 23, 2014

Construction Equipment

Diggerland USA construction equipment theme park officially sets grand opening for June 14

Diggerland USA, a construction equipment theme park currently under construction in West Berlin, New Jersey, officially announced this morning that it will open to the public Saturday June 14. According to the announcement, gates will open at 10 a.m. and visitors will have access to 23 attractions mostly made up of JCB construction equipment modified […]

May 7, 2014

Construction Equipment

Park nearly complete, construction equipment rides begin arriving at Diggerland USA

[imagebrowser id=69] With an expected grand opening of June 14th, Diggerland USA is gradually piecing together the first construction equipment theme park in the country. Officials broke ground on the site in March and since then Diggerland has been posting photos of the machines-turned-rides as they come in to the Berlin Township, New Jersey site […]

April 28, 2014

Construction Equipment

Diggerland USA, the country’s first construction equipment theme park, breaks ground for summer opening

With most of the site work done on the 14-acre plot of land the theme park will occupy, West Berlin city officials and park management broke ground for the new Diggerland USA Tuesday. Officials broke dirt with chrome-plated shovels—except for one. Brandon Moore, the general manager for Sahara Sam’s Oasis, the water park next door […]

March 14, 2014