Boulder Dash
Bristol, Connecticut
Lake Compounce See Video Here | Located anywhere else, this wonderful roller coaster would still be a top favorite. Great airtime, smooth ride, relentless speed from start to finish: You name it, the out-and-back Boulder Dash has it |
Raven
Santa Claus, Indiana
Holiday World See Video Here | The roller coaster that proves the adage, "size isn\'t everything," Raven packs delerious airtime and out-of-control speed into its 90-second ride. |
Shivering Timbers
Muskegon, Michigan
Michigan's Adventure See Video Here | Built by the same company that designed Boulder Dash (Custom Coasters, Inc.), this is a similar out-and-back coaster with similar airtime and relentless speed. |
GhostRider
Buena Park, California
Knott's Berry Farm See Video Here | Another Custom Coasters, Inc. creation. These people really knew how to build new-age wood coasters (The company went out of business in 2002). Most of their monsters seem to defy the laws of physics |
Cyclone
Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York
Astroland See Video Here | In the period since it first opened on June 26, 1927, the Cyclone has emerged as the outdoor amusement industry\'s most famous, most influential, and most copied individual ride. Brothers Jac |
Superman: Ride of Steel
Agawam, Massachusetts
Six Flags New England See Video Here | Speed, airtime, G-forces: This hypercoaster gives riders the perfect combination of everything a great roller coaster should have and never stops giving it from the moment of the first terrifying drop |
The Incredible Hulk
Orlando, Florida
Islands of Adventure See Video Here | A launched roller coaster unlike any other. It must be ridden to be believed. |
Millennium Force
Sandusky, Ohio
Cedar Point See Video Here |
The coaster-lovers\' park that first gave us a hypercoaster (Magnum XL-200) topped itself with this 310-foot "giga-coaster." It\'s such a long way up, it uses an elevator cable to speed the |
Dueling Dragons
Orlando, Florida
Islands of Adventure See Video Here |
Actually two roller coasters (the Ice side gets the edge if I had to pick a favorite), either inverted coaster on its own would be a winner. Coming within inches of one another during a series of in |
Desperado
Primm, Nevada
Buffalo Bill's Casino, See Video Here |
One of the early hypercoasters, its enormous, yellow track is an ominous sight as you travel the interstate between L.A. and Vegas. Of all the roller coasters I\'ve ridden, this one produced the most |
Apollo's Chariot
Williamsburg, Virginia
Busch Gardens Williamsburg See Video Here |
This hyper-coaster features a first drop of 210 feet, in addition to 8 other drops adding up to the most vertical drops on a single roller coaster, an amazing 825 feet. The nearly one-mile of smooth |
Kraken
Orlando, Florida
SeaWorld Orlando See Video Here |
SeaWorld only has a couple of rides but they are both superb and compliment the shows and sealife on show. This great bottomless coaster on a track is very very smooth and very scary. Short lines ma |
The Riddler's Revenge
Valencia, California
Six Flags Magic Mountain See Video Here |
This ride was absolutely a hoot!! The ride is extremely smooth and NOT strenuous at all!!! Additionally, there\'s a great variety of coaster moves that really tend to keep it interesting: corkscrews, |
Texas Cyclone
Houston, Texas
Old Astroworld See Video Here |
The Texas Cyclone was a roller coaster in Six Flags Astroworld in Houston Texas, and was known for |
Texas Titan Roller Coaster
Arlington, Texas
Six Flags OverTexas See Video Here | Titan begins by lifting riders up a 245 foot hill and then takes a 255 foot drop entering a 120 foot tunnel. Immediately after the tunnel, riders are taken through a large carousel turn. Following the |
Kingda Ka
Jackson, New Jersey
Six Flags Great Adventure See Video Here | On May 21, 2005 Six Flags Great Adventure introduced Kingda Ka, the tallest, fastest roller coaster on the planet to the public. This $25-million Swiss designed "roc |
Whizzer
Gurnee, Illinois
Six Flags Great America See Video Here | This is the spiral lift at the Whizzer coaster (formerly Willard\'s Whizzer) at Six Flags Great America. I believe it\'s the only spiral lift coaster lef |
Corkscrew
Muskegon, MI
Michigan's Adventure | The Corkscrew roller coaster stands seven stories tall and has a double out and back layout with features two consecutive corkscrew inversions. Designed by Arrow Dynamics, this model and layout are th |
Wolverine Wildcat
Muskegon, MI
Michigan's Adventure | The park\'s original wooden roller coaster is a "double out and back" with a layout. Designer Curtis D. Summers modeled this roller coaster after The Phoenix at Knoebels. Wolverine Wildcat st |
Zach's Zoomer
Muskegon, MI
Michigan's Adventure |
Designed with the youngest riders in mind, Zach\'s Zoomer provides an exciting first coaster ride that parents can enjoy with their children. Small in size, this coaster is sure to please with its ra |
