The culmination of over six months of work, the National Roller Coaster Museum of America is proud to announce it has come to agreements with Carowinds, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Over Texas, and Canada’s Wonderland to donate FOUR...
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The Coaster101 Podcast: Alexa, Play “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye” (to Roller Coasters)
It’s our first podcast episode of 2025 – so of course, we have to join the discourse of the news that dominated the last few months of 2024 – closed and closing roller coasters. Roller coasters like Scorpion at Busch...
Continue reading...Carowinds Announces Retirement of Nighthawk, Two Flat Rides
In a blog post earlier today, Carowinds announced the retirement and closure of three of the park’s attractions: Nighthawk, Drop Tower, and ScreamWeaver. With none of the attractions currently operating for WinterFest, it means these rides have already given their...
Continue reading...20 in 2020: Stealth at California’s Great America
In the year 2000, roller coaster fans finally got to experience something that parks had touted for years but never really achieved: the true feeling of flight. On April 1, 2000, Stealth, the World’s First Flying Coaster, opened at Paramount’s Great...
Continue reading...Carowinds Off-Season Maintenance Update
As we’ve mentioned several times before, the off-season is often thought of as a “slow” time at a theme park. However, there’s a large amount of work that is going on year-round. As Carowinds inches closer and closer towards the...
Continue reading...Carowinds’ Coasters: From Tame to Thrilling
Edit: This article was originally written in 2015, and has been updated to include Carowinds’ “New for 2019” Coaster: Copperhead Strike I visited Carowinds this past Sunday for the first time as a “regular visitor” this season. After a relatively...
Continue reading...Photo Update from Carowinds
I visited Carowinds on Sunday as part of their last day of operation for the season. I took some photos with my iPhone. Tons of Fury 325 Track on site. Giant Mound of Dirt for Fury 325 Construction. Temporary Ticket...
Continue reading...Trip Report: Carowinds
The weather was going to be perfect on Saturday April 5, and I had a great deal on tickets from LivingSocial, so I decided I would make the two hour drive west to Carowinds. For those of you who don’t...
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