A roller coaster is an amusement park ride consisting of an elevated railroad track that goes around sharp curves, down steep inclines, and/or through loops.
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| x Giant Dipper |
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The Giant Dipper is a historic wooden roller coaster located at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, an amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. It opened on May 17, 1924. It is the fifth-oldest roller coaster in the United States; over 55 million...
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| x Mission Beach Roller Coaster |
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The Giant Dipper, also known as the Mission Beach Roller Coaster, is a wooden roller coaster, built in 1925. The Giant Dipper is in Belmont Park, right on Mission Beach in San Diego. The coaster along with it's near twin at the Santa Cruz Beach...
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| x Grizzly | Wooden | Sit-down | Amusement Ride | ||
| x American Eagle |
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American Eagle is a two track racing wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, United States. It was manufactured by Intamin of Switzerland (their first wooden roller coaster ) and built in 1981 by the contracting...
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| x Le Monstre |
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Le Monstre (The Monster) is a wooden roller coaster at La Ronde amusement park in Montreal, Canada. Le Monstre is the largest wooden roller coaster in Canada and is also the tallest two-track wooden roller coaster in the world.
Being only 39.9...
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| x Colossos |
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Colossos is a wooden roller coaster at Heide Park in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the first wooden roller coaster to use prefabricated track. Colossos is the tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster in Europe and the tallest running wooden...
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| x Boulder Dash |
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Boulder Dash is a wooden roller coaster located at Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut. It first opened in 2000 and was built by Custom Coasters International. The ride's structure was built with Southern Yellow Pine wood and the track is made of...
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| x Son of Beast |
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Son of Beast is a record-breaking wooden roller coaster located at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, United States, outside of Cincinnati. Son of Beast is billed as the sequel to The Beast. The ride was shut down in 2009 due to a reported injury, and has...
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| x Shivering Timbers |
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Shivering Timbers is a Wooden roller coaster at Michigan's Adventure in Muskegon County, Michigan. It was developed and built by Custom Coasters International. Opened in May 1998, Shivering Timbers debuted for the park's 30th year in operation and...
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| x Thunderbolt |
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The Thunderbolt is a wooden roller coaster located at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Originally built by John A. Miller in 1924, the ride's name was Pippin until 1967, when it changed to Thunderbolt beginning with the...
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| x Rebel Yell |
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Rebel Yell is a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. It opened with the park in 1975.
Rebel Yell is a racing roller coaster featuring two individual tracks that parallel each other. Its design was inspired by the...
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| x GhostRider |
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GhostRider is a wooden roller coaster at Knott's Berry Farm, a theme park in Buena Park, California. It is located in the Ghost Town section of the park, south of the main entrance. It is the longest wooden coaster on the West Coast.
Riders approach...
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| x El Toro |
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El Toro, meaning The Bull in Spanish, is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure. It opened to the public on June 11, 2006. It was designed by Intamin of Switzerland. It had the steepest drop of any wooden roller coaster in the world,...
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| x Thunder Run |
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Thunder Run is a wooden roller coaster at former Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky. This is a custom designed roller coaster that was originally intended to be used at LeSourdsville Lake (Americana Park). It has 70 degree banked turns. Much...
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| x Rolling Thunder |
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Rolling Thunder is a racing wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ. Rolling Thunder is the park's first wooden coaster, and debuted in 1979 during the park's fifth anniversary season. The line for the ride begins at an...
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| x Blue Streak |
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Blue Streak is a wooden roller coaster following the out and back design, and is the oldest operating roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. According to park officials, the roller coaster has given over 54 million rides since its...
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| x Screamin' Eagle |
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The Screamin' Eagle is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags St. Louis. When it opened in 1976 for America's Bicentennial celebration, Guinness World Records listed it as the largest coaster at 110 feet (34 m) high and as the fastest coaster at 62...
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| x Timber Wolf |
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Timber Wolf is a wooden roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri. Timber Wolf was designed by Curtis D. Summers and was built by the Dinn Corporation and opened in 1989.
Timber Wolf is one of two wooden roller coasters at Worlds of...
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| x Colossus |
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Colossus is a wooden roller coaster located in the Colossus County Fair area of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. When it opened on June 29, 1978, it was one of the tallest and fastest wooden roller coasters in the world, and the...
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| x Green Dragon |
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The Green Dragon was a wooden roller coaster located at Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut. It opened in 1914, but was later replaced by the Wildcat. It was the first electrically powered coaster at the nation's oldest continuously operated...
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| x Wildcat |
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Wildcat is the name of a wooden roller coaster located at Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut. It was built in 1927 and is the park's centerpiece. It is one of the world's oldest operating roller coasters (in operation at the same location). With...
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| x Dania Beach Hurricane | Wooden |
Dania Beach Hurricane is a wooden roller coaster at Boomers! in Dania Beach, Florida. It was designed by Jules Ross and the Stand Company and was built by Coaster Works, Inc.. Dania Beach Hurricane Opened on November 1, 2000. The parks website...
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| x Rampage | Wooden |
Rampage is a wooden roller coaster located at Alabama Adventure in Bessemer, Alabama. It opened on May 23, 1998.
Construction of the coaster would commence in the fall of 1997, and the ride would celebrate its topping out ceremony on December 2,...
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| x Vuoristorata |
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Vuoristorata is a roller coaster in the Finnish amusement park Linnanmäki. It opened on July 13, 1951 and was designed as a temporary attraction for the Linnanmäki park, opened in 1950. One of the main reasons for its construction was to attract...
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| x Sea Dragon |
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Sea Dragon is a junior wooden roller coaster located at Jungle Jack's Landing in Powell, Ohio.
The coaster was built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters (PTC) and began operating in 1956. John C. Allen designed three junior wooden coasters shortly...
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Nickelodeon Streak is a wooden out-and-back roller coaster at Pleasure Beach Blackpool, Blackpool, England. It was built in 1933 by Charles Paige and uses the lift hill and other parts of the former Velvet Coaster, which was removed in 1932. From...
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| x Thunderbolt | Wooden |
The Thunderbolt was Dreamworld's original roller coaster which opened in 1982 and was closed on 8 August 2003. It was demolished in 2004. It cost A$4,000,000 to build and was capable of reaching speeds of up to 87 km/h (54 mph). It was the first...
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| x Grizzly |
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Grizzly is a wooden roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. The grounds of the ride are densely forested, with the intended thrills heightened from the illusion of inadequate clearance between the track and trees. The attraction...
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| x Great White |
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The Great White is a hybrid roller coaster at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey. It opened in 1996. It is 1 of 6 Roller Coasters at Morey's Piers. Out of the 6 it is the only wooden Coaster that the Morey's Pier have built so far.
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| x Evel Knievel |
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American Thunder is a wooden roller coaster that opened June 20, 2008, at Six Flags St. Louis. The coaster was originally named after and themed to the famous motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel. It was renamed American Thunder for the 2011 season.
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| x Hoosier Hurricane |
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Hoosier Hurricane is a wooden roller coaster at Indiana Beach in Monticello, Indiana. The ride was designed by Dennis McNulty and Larry Bill of Custom Coasters International. It opened on May 27, 1994 as the park's largest wooden roller coaster and...
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| x Cornball Express |
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Cornball Express is a wooden roller coaster at Indiana Beach in Monticello, Indiana. The ride was designed and manufactured by Custom Coasters International. It opened on May 18, 2001 and later gained critical acclaim among enthusiasts, being named...
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| x Wild Mouse |
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The Wild Mouse is a Wooden roller coaster located at Pleasure Beach, Blackpool in Blackpool. Opened in 1958, it's one of only 3 remaining wooden Wild Mouse coasters left in the world and is held in very high regard as one of the finest and most...
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| x The Predator |
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Predator is one of the largest wooden roller coasters in New York State, located at Darien Lake. The custom design takes advantage of the traditional wooden coaster element of large amounts of "air" time while also giving a modern twist by additions...
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| x The Boss |
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The Boss is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri. Ranked among the top 5 wooden coasters in America, it features a lift of 122 feet (37 m), a first drop of 150 feet (46 m), four drops of 150',112',103',and 72', and a...
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| x Comet |
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The Comet is a wooden roller coaster located at Great Escape in Queensbury, New York, in the United States.
The coaster started its existence at Crystal Beach (an amusement park near Niagara Falls, Ontario) as a ride known as the Cyclone in 1927....
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| x Grand National |
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The Grand National is a wooden roller coaster at Pleasure Beach, Blackpool. It was designed and constructed by Charles Paige in 1935 and is now one of only three surviving Möbius Loop roller coasters in the world and the only one in Eurasia. It is...
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| x Leap-The-Dips |
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Leap-The-Dips is the world's oldest operating wooden roller coaster and North America's last surviving side friction roller coaster. It is located at Lakemont Park in Altoona, Pennsylvania and was built in 1902 by the E. Joy Morris Company. Leap-the...
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| x Tonnerre de Zeus |
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Tonnerre de Zeus is a roller coaster at Parc Astérix in Plailly, France. Opened in 1997 and built by Custom Coasters International, it is the 3rd longest wooden coaster in Europe after Coaster express and Colossos, with a track length of 1230m (4044...
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| x Beast |
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The Beast is a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. It is the longest wooden roller coaster in the world, sprawling over 35 acres (14 ha), and was one of the fastest and tallest roller coasters ever built when it opened in...
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| x Cannon ball roller coaster | Wooden |
The Cannon Ball roller coaster is a wooden roller coaster at Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park, Lakeview, Georgia, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was designed by John C. Allen and opened in 1967 as Lake Winnie's first roller coaster.
It is one of...
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| x Boardwalk Bullet |
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The Boardwalk Bullet is a high-speed wooden roller coaster in Kemah, Texas, United States, that was opened August 31, 2007. It is part of the Kemah Boardwalk amusement park. Currently, this is the only roller coaster in Greater Houston. It is a 96...
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| x Scenic Railway Roller Coaster |
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The Scenic Railway Roller Coaster, known simply as the Scenic or Roller Coaster, is a wooden triple out-and-back scenic railway at Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Great Yarmouth, UK. The ride was built at the park in 1932 and has been operational...
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| x Robin Hood | Wooden |
The Robin Hood is a Wooden roller coaster in the Amusement park Walibi Holland in the Netherlands.
The Robin Hood was designed by Stand Company and was built by Vekoma The Robin Hood opened in 2000 and has a capacity of 815 people per hour. There...
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