Meandering Zierer Pepsi Orange Streak encircles custom Gerstlauers (spinner and EuroFighter) and a roof-scraping Intamin Half-Pipe. Nearby seasonal park, Valleyfair, features cheerful NAD High Roller, original Morgan Hyper Wild Thing, and Intamin Impulse Steel Venom (the last to feature a back-spike hold). The spoiled folks of Minneapolis-St.Paul have two regional parks: Mall of America’s indoor Nickelodeon Universe – a gift to Minnesotans during hostile winters – features several major rides squished into a baseball-field-sized park. The less-impressive-but-more-convenient coasters of Seattle can be found at Wild Waves Theme & Water Park (or whatever they’re calling themselves this year), where a Zamperla Mouse, Arrow LoopScrew, and gentle S&S wooden Timberhawk portray a standard operational frequency. Splendid Frederick Church Classic Coaster, Schwarzkopf Wildcat, and Top Fun Rainier Rush are yours to enjoy as long as you pick the right weeks in September or April. The soggy northwest has a lot going for it – just not very often: Washington State Fair’s commanding coasters can only be enjoyed a few weeks a year. The park feels like photos you’ve seen of Six Flags during the mid 70s – but time proves that Adventureland isn’t afraid to make power moves. Bill Cobb’s Tornado is very 1970s double-looping Hopkins Dragon is very 1980s the CCI-becoming-GCI Outlaw is very 1990s totally-enclosed CCI Underground is very weird 2016’s knock-out Gerstlauer Infinity Monster is utterly badass. More wood goodness can be traced to Des Moines’ Adventureland – one of America’s most underrated parks. On the edge of south-central Minnesota is Arnold’s Park, home to painstakingly-preserved PTC Legend. A possible 5th Pillar belongs to the potent, Alan Schilke-designed Avalanche, which Timber Falls Adventure Golf abrutly gave up on this year.īordering Wisconsin is the smaller-but-better coaster collection of Iowa. Olympus features “The Four Pillars of Disappointment”: Discomfort ( Pegasus), Sluggishness ( Zeus), Unprecedented Roughness ( Hades), and It-Used-To-Be-So-Good!-ness ( Cyclops). PTC Meteor), and The Dells host five CCI/S&S/Gravity Group (GG) woodies in various states of decay. Green Bay’s Bay Beach hosts Martin & Velmickx’s Zippin Pippin (Memphis, Tennessee Zippin Pippin replica), Madison’s Little A-Merrick-A offers asylum for vintage rides (Chance Toboggan, Herschel Mouse, Jr. There’s actually two states in the midwest known for woodies and uninspired presentation Wisconsin simply has more. CCI Zach’s Zoomer, Geauga Lake’s SLC, aren’t much to talk about, but mile-long Timbers is what we’re here for (along with Arrow’s Corkscrew and Wild Mouse). Their reputation for woodies is only slightly louder than their reputation for blandness, but much is forgiven in exchange for CCI mega woodie Shivering Timbers (the first in Cedar Fair’s ‘_-ing Timbers’ series). Finally, let’s not forget charmingly-dated Circus Circus Adventuredome, home to two excellent loopers (classic Arrow Canyon Blaster and clever S&S El Loco), plus a generous jackpot of 90s nostalgia.įamily Entertainment Centers operate almost half of the tundra’s Michigan’s coasters, but most live in Muskegon’s Michigan’s Adventure – the first “major chain park” on our countdown. The last Togo in the West for various reasons, but Premier Rides (and a steady flow of unassuming tourists) keeps the polarizing ride alive. Nevada is the highest placement to lack a woodie, but it’s also our first to feature a hyper: between LA and Vegas, right on the border, our beloved Desperado demonstrates many signature Arrow Dynamics qualities (read: qualities that helped lead Arrow into bankruptcy). Fellow bankrupt legacy brand, Togo, also makes impressions with Manhattan Express / Big Apple Coaster / NYNY Coaster / whatever. Their five coasters are all a cut above, particularly NAD’s Wildcat (steel-structured woodie rescued from Fairyland Park in Missouri), and the West’s only Schwarzkopf Looping Star, Silver Bullet (featuring the last example of the vehicle theme previously found on Magic Mountain’s Revolution). An Arrow Shuttle Loop, next-gen Vekoma family invert, and partially enclosed kiddie coaster round out the collection. Aside from two giant pizza parlors with SBF Visa Spinners and a kiddie park near eastern Kansas, the only place for coasters in The World’s Tornado Capital is Oklahoma City’s, Frontier City.
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