With a few exceptions, you can only find candlepin bowling alleys in New England and Canada’s Maritime provinces. Here's a look at the history of the sport's unique regional rise and why it hasn ...

From its heydey in the 1950s, when candlepin bowling was offered in as many as 5,000 bowling alleys in the U.S., often alongside 10-pin and duckpin bowling, it has contracted to a niche that isn ...

Candlepin bowling, unique to New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces, has likely played a part in countless more love stories over the past 140 years, and though its popularity was ...

After a five-year hiatus, publicly-available candlepin bowling lanes are set to return to the city the sport was invented in. American Flatbread is set to open its doors in Worcester’s Canal ...

Today, the National Duckpin Bowling Congress, established in 1927 in Maryland, is the U.S. parent and supervising organization over the sport, which is played predominately in Virginia, Maryland ...

Colonial Bowling Center was the last public alley to close its doors, in 2020. But while no public candlepin alleys are left in Worcester, the private lanes of the country club are ready and ...

Colonial Bowling Center in Westbrook, ME closed after 77 years of business in 2016 and Saco’s Vacationland Bowling and Recreation Center for 34 years in 2017. Although once incredibly popular in the ...

Once facing a decline in candlepin alleys that diminished the sport’s presence in Central Massachusetts, the sport has seen growth, with some longtime bowling centers being taken over by the ...

Though candlepin bowling used to be a New England institution, the last alley closed in Worcester in 2020. "Candlepin is such a great family sport, friends. We want leagues to come back.