Where is the longest wooden roller coaster?

Maybe it's for speed. Maybe it's for a special design feature. But since 1979, The Beast at Kings Island in Ohio has held tightly onto the record as the world's longest wooden coaster.



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Opened to the public as of May 6, 2006, The Voyage roller coaster, at the date of publication, is the second longest roller coaster in the world and sixth in height. This roller coaster is aptly themed after the infamous voyage of the Mayflower ship to North America by the pilgrims.

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The Beast is a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. Designed and manufactured in-house for approximately $3 million, the ride opened in 1979 as the tallest, fastest, and longest wooden roller coaster in the world.

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The minds behind the Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey clearly understood this, as they combined speed and height to create the scariest roller coaster in the world.

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The Beast, USA The track length of this roller coaster located at Kings Island Amusement Park in the US is 7,359 feet.

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Most Extreme Roller Coasters in the World
  • Kingda Ka — Six Flags Great Adventure, New Jersey. ...
  • Formula Rossa — Ferrari World, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. ...
  • The Smiler — Alton Towers Resort, United Kingdom. ...
  • Steel Dragon 2000 — Nagashima Spa Land, Japan. ...
  • Goliath — Six Flags Great America, Illinois.


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Goliath at Six Flags Great America (Gurnee, IL) It holds the distinction of being the world's tallest and steepest wooden coaster. At 72 miles per hour, it is second only to Lightning Rod for the fastest wooden coasters. Goliath climbs 180 feet before dropping 85-degrees down and whipping around a 180-degree curve.

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Calling all thrill-seekers! Adventure awaits on the TALLEST, FASTEST and LONGEST wooden roller coaster in the state, the Texas Stingray. Find out how it feels to whip, dip and dive with a 100 foot drop, 3,379 feet of track, and a max speed of 55 mph.

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Kingda Ka is a hydraulically-launched steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, United States. Manufactured by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, Kingda Ka opened as the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world on May 21, 2005, surpassing Top Thrill Dragster.



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The smallest coaster in the world is the Dvergbanen at Tusenfryd near Oslo, in Norway. It has a height of just 2.5 metres and runs 26 metres in length.

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The Biggest Theme Park in the U.S. The theme park is located within Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. The resort itself is 43 square miles — that's 27,520 acres.

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Gravity Max (The Tilt Coaster) One of the wackiest roller coasters is located at Lihpao Land in Taiwan. The Gravity Max, also known as the Tilt Coaster, is the world's first coaster to feature a true 90-degree drop and the world's only tilt coaster.

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Cannibal at Lagoon in Farmington, Utah This unusual ride features an elevator lift inside a darkened, 208-foot-tall silo followed by a 70 mph drop into an underground tunnel at a freaky 116 degrees. That's 26 degrees beyond straight down and the steepest coaster in the USA.

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In Branson, Missouri, Silver Dollar City can now claim to the world's only wooden coaster to twist upside down three times. With its 720° double barrel roll, Outlaw Run will draw visitors like bears to honey.

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The Steel Dragon 2000 is the longest roller coaster in the world, measuring a whopping 8,133 feet in length.

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