Aspiring Imagineer Sean LaRochelle and his team of 30 collaborators built a 26-foot-tall backyard version of Disneyland’s Matterhorn roller coaster that has become a viral sensation, but the ...

The Matterhorn Bobsleds ride was the world's first rollercoaster to use steel tubular track, according to the Disneyland website. It was built by manufacturer Arrow Development and was the first ...

That inspired one man to bring one of his favorite Disneyland roller coasters to his home. Sean LaRochelle of Napa recreated the Matterhorn in his backyard. He tried to nail every detail of the ...

NAPA, Calif. — A curious sight cropped up in the middle of a Napa vineyard recently: a functional backyard version of Disneyland's Matterhorn roller coaster. The coaster was a family project.

"My brother walked outside with me to the backyard, and he said 'Michael, we are going to build the Matterhorn,'" Michael LaRochelle recalls. "We saw a backyard roller coaster on YouTube and we ...

Sean LaRochelle, who is studying architecture and his brother built a personalized version of his favorite Disneyland rollercoaster, the Matterhorn, ABC 7 reports. The brothers reportedly started ...

The videos of the Napa Valley Matterhorn remake have been shared across the country and around the world. The LaRochelle family in Napa showed progress on their backyard roller coaster.

Jennifer Huffman Nov 20, 2020 Nov 20, 2020 Updated Aug 13, 2021 After Napa’s LaRochelle family finished building their own mini-Matterhorn roller coaster in their backyard during the COVID-19 ...

Interestingly, Matterhorn Bobsleds isn’t the company’s only troubled attraction involving a yeti. Expedition Everest, a roller coaster in Disney’s Animal Kingdom park in Orlando ...

A bedroom door-sized chunk of rockwork plaster broke off from the faux mountainside of the Matterhorn Bobsleds roller coaster at Disneyland and forced the closure of one side of the attraction.

"My brother walked outside with me to the backyard, and he said 'Michael, we are going to build the Matterhorn,'" Michael LaRochelle recalls. "We saw a backyard roller coaster on YouTube and we ...