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/ September 8, 2026
Hoosier Hurricane is a wooden roller coaster at Indiana Beach in Monticello, Indiana, running along the shore of Lake Shafer beside the park’s boardwalk. When it opened on May 27, 1994, it became the park’s largest wooden coaster and the first wooden coaster built anywhere…
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/ September 8, 2026
Steel Vengeance is a hybrid roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, built by Rocky Mountain Construction and opened to the public on May 5, 2018. It rose from the bones of Mean Streak, a wooden coaster that had operated since 1991, with RMC’s…
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/ September 8, 2026
Thunderbolt is a wooden roller coaster at Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, that has been dropping riders into a forested ravine since it first opened as Pippin in 1924, designed by John A. Miller. The ride was reengineered and renamed Thunderbolt in 1968 by Kennywood’s…
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/ September 8, 2026
Wild One was a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and one of the oldest coasters ever operated in the United States. Built in 1917 as the Giant Coaster at Paragon Park in Hull, Massachusetts, it briefly held the title…
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/ September 7, 2026
Jack Rabbit is a wooden roller coaster at Kennywood park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, that has been sending riders down its signature double-dip drop since June 18, 1920. Designed by legendary coaster engineer John A. Miller and built with Harry C. Baker, Jack Rabbit is…
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/ September 7, 2026
Flying Turns at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania is the only wooden bobsled roller coaster operating anywhere in the world today. Unlike a conventional coaster, its cars run without a fixed rail through smooth, banked wooden troughs, relying purely on gravity and momentum to…
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/ September 5, 2026
The Giant Dipper is a wooden roller coaster at Belmont Park on Mission Beach in San Diego, California. It first opened on July 4, 1925, as the centerpiece of the Mission Beach Amusement Center, a $2.5 million development backed by John D. and Adolph Spreckels.
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/ September 5, 2026
The Giant Dipper is a wooden roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California, that has been thrilling riders in the same oceanfront spot since May 17, 1924. Designed by noted coaster architects Frank Prior and Frederick Church and built by…
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/ September 1, 2026
Texas Stingray is a wooden roller coaster at SeaWorld San Antonio, built by Great Coasters International (GCI) and designed by Skyline Attractions. It had a soft opening on February 21, 2020, followed by its public debut on February 29, 2020, though a brief pandemic-related closure…
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/ August 30, 2026
Grizzly is a wooden roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, that has been rattling through the park’s forested Old Virginia section since it opened on March 27, 1982. Designed by noted coaster engineer Curtis D. Summers, its double-figure-eight layout closely follows the blueprint…
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/ August 27, 2026
InvadR is a wooden roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia, built by Great Coasters International and designed by Jeff Pike of Skyline Design. The ride opened on April 7, 2017, in the park’s New France area, giving guests a family-friendly wooden coaster themed…
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/ August 25, 2026
Timber Wolf is a wooden roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri, that opened on April 1, 1989. Designed by Curtis D. Summers and built by the Dinn Corporation for about $3 million, the ride was engineered specifically around the park’s hilly…
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/ August 22, 2026
Boulder Dash is a wooden roller coaster at Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut, that opened on May 21, 2000. Designed by Dennis McNulty and Larry Bill and built by Custom Coasters International at a cost of about $6 million, it stands out for a rare…
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/ August 16, 2026
Son of Beast was a towering wooden roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, that opened on April 28, 2000, as the tallest and fastest wooden coaster in the world. Built by the Roller Coaster Corporation of America with track design by Werner Stengel’s…
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/ August 16, 2026
Mean Streak was a wooden roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, that opened on May 11, 1991, in the park’s Frontier Town section. Designed by Curtis D. Summers and built by the Dinn Corporation from more than 1.5 million board feet of treated…
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/ August 16, 2026
Six Flags Apocalypse is the wooden roller coaster hiding in plain sight at Six Flags Magic Mountain — tucked into the smoky, bunker-themed Underground section near Riddler’s Revenge, and often overshadowed by the park’s bigger steel giants despite being one of its most re-ridden coasters.
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/ August 11, 2026
American Thunder is a wooden roller coaster at Mid America Adventure (formerly Six Flags St. Louis) in Eureka, Missouri, built by Great Coasters International (GCI) and designed by Jeff Pike. It opened on June 20, 2008, originally themed around motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel before being…
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/ August 9, 2026
Blue Streak is a classic wooden roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, and it holds the distinction of being the oldest roller coaster still operating at the park. Built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company and designed by John C. Allen and Frank F.
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/ August 6, 2026
Hades 360 is a wooden roller coaster at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. It opened on May 14, 2005, simply as “Hades,” built by The Gravity Group, and quickly earned attention as one of the tallest and fastest wooden coasters…
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/ August 2, 2026
Stampida is a twin-track wooden racing roller coaster in the Far West section of PortAventura Park in Salou, Catalonia, Spain. Opened on March 17, 1997, and designed by John Wardley and Larry Bill for manufacturer Custom Coasters International, it was one of the first modern…
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