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/ September 21, 2026
Little Dipper is a steel kiddie roller coaster at Memphis Kiddie Park in Brooklyn, Ohio, a small family amusement park just outside Cleveland. Built by the Allan Herschell Company, the ride opened with the park on May 28, 1952, making it one of the oldest…
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/ September 21, 2026
Memphis Kiddie Park opened on May 28, 1952, along Memphis Avenue in Brooklyn, Ohio, the vision of Cleveland native Stuart Wintner after he read a trade article on the amusement industry in Billboard magazine. Built specifically for young children amid the postwar suburbs on Cleveland’s…
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/ September 21, 2026
Martinsville Speedway opened in September 1947 in Ridgeway, Virginia, making it the oldest track still on the NASCAR schedule. Built by local businessman H. Clay Earles, the track hosted its first NASCAR-sanctioned race on July 4, 1948, won by Fonty Flock, and later became the…
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/ September 21, 2026
Darlington Raceway opened on August 19, 1950, as the first paved superspeedway built specifically for NASCAR stock car racing. Tucked into the small town of Darlington, South Carolina, the track hosted its inaugural Southern 500 that September, a grueling 500-mile race won by Californian Johnny…
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/ September 21, 2026
Road America is a permanent road racing circuit near Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, that opened on September 10, 1955, after safety concerns ended the open public-road races the town had hosted since 1950. Built by local civil engineer Clif Tufte, the 4.048-mile, 14-turn circuit was carved…
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/ September 21, 2026
Royal Arena is a multi-purpose indoor venue in the Ørestad South district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built to fill a long-standing gap between the city’s smaller halls and its outdoor stadiums. Designed by architecture firm 3XN with arena specialists HKS Inc., the building opened on February…
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/ September 21, 2026
Forest National, known in Dutch as Vorst Nationaal, is a circular multi-purpose arena in the Forest municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It opened on October 8, 1970 with a performance by Maurice Béjart’s Ballet of the 20th Century, and has since grown into the largest concert…
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/ September 21, 2026
Disaster Transport was an enclosed steel bobsled roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It began life as Avalanche Run, an outdoor Intamin bobsled coaster announced in October 1984. Cedar Point had originally targeted Avalanche Run to debut with the park’s May 11, 1985…
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/ September 21, 2026
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is a drop tower attraction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World, themed around Rod Serling’s classic anthology series The Twilight Zone. Set inside the fictional Hollywood Tower Hotel on Sunset Boulevard, the ride tells the story of…
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/ September 21, 2026
Demon Drop was a pioneering freefall tower that stood at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, from 1983 to 2009. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin as one of its first-generation Freefall models, the ride sent four-rider cabs climbing 131 feet into the air before releasing them…
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/ September 21, 2026
maXair is a HUSS Park Attractions Giant Frisbee ride at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, that opened on May 7, 2005. Positioned near the front of the park close to Troika, GateKeeper, and Kiddy Kingdom, it quickly became known as one of the fastest non-coaster…
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/ September 21, 2026
Power Tower is a four-towered thrill complex at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, that opened on May 9, 1998. Built by S&S Power of Logan, Utah, it remains the only ride of its kind in the world to combine two Space Shot towers, which rocket…
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/ September 21, 2026
Corkscrew has been twisting riders upside down at Michigan’s Adventure in Muskegon since 1979, back when the park was still known as Deer Park under owner Roger Jourden. Built by Arrow Dynamics, it holds the distinction of being the first inverting roller coaster in the…
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/ September 21, 2026
Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey opened on May 1, 1993, as one of the earliest clones of the original Bolliger & Mabillard inverted coaster that debuted at Six Flags Great America the year before. It replaced the park’s…
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/ September 20, 2026
Crazy Mouse was a compact, spinning wild mouse roller coaster that thrilled boardwalk crowds on Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Built by French manufacturer Reverchon, the ride combined tight, jerking turns with unpredictable car spins, a formula that made wild mouse coasters a…
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/ September 20, 2026
Steel Pier opened on June 18, 1898, extending from the Atlantic City boardwalk out over the ocean at 1000 Boardwalk. Built by the Steel Pier Company, it grew into one of the most famous amusement piers on the East Coast, billed in its heyday as…
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/ September 19, 2026
Windstorm was a steel Zamperla twister coaster that operated at Old Town, the retro-themed entertainment complex in Kissimmee, Florida, just minutes from the Walt Disney World area. The ride opened on February 15, 1997, and quickly became one of the small park’s signature attractions, offering…
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/ September 19, 2026
Pteranodon Flyers opened with Universal’s Islands of Adventure on May 28, 1999, offering a slow, suspended glide above the Jurassic Park area’s Camp Jurassic. Riders dangle in single-car gondolas styled after the flying reptile the ride is named for, drifting along a steel track roughly…
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/ September 19, 2026
Racer 75 is a twin-track wooden racing coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, designed by legendary coaster architect John C. Allen and built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters. It opened with the park on May 3, 1975, giving riders two mirror-image tracks that launch side…
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/ September 19, 2026
WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca is a road racing circuit tucked into the hills of Monterey County, California, built in 1957 on land carved from the former Fort Ord Army base. The track hosted its first race on November 9, 1957, after nearby Pebble Beach’s public-road…
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