The coaster helped make Fun Spot America a can’t-miss destination for roller coaster enthusiasts visiting Central Florida. Aside from its fun-from-start-to-finish layout, White Lightning is notable for being GCI’s first “hybrid” roller coaster with its traditional wooden track being supported by steel scaffolding-style supports. The eye-catching, airplane-themed trains make the coaster nearly as fun to watch as it is to ride.Īs is commonplace with GCI’s works of roller-coaster art, White Lightning packs a punch with blistering pacing and copious amounts of airtime. Despite its smaller size, Kentucky Flyer packs a punch with stellar pacing and a generous helping of airtime throughout its course. The coaster filled the family-friendly coaster void at the park, which continues its renaissance after reopening in 2014 under original owner Ed Hart. The Gravity Group added another family wooden coaster to its portfolio with Kentucky Flyer at Kentucky Kingdom. Learn more about Gold Striker, and how it was built, in our Q&A with Adam House of Great Coasters International, inc. Gold Striker has been ranked as a top-12 wooden coaster in the world by the Golden Ticket Awards every year since 2014. Designed by Jeff Pike and Great Coasters International (GCI), it’s one of the company’s best roller coasters, filled with tightly twisted turns, bumps of air time and brilliant pacing throughout. Originally planned for 2009, Gold Striker finally opened to the public on May 31, 2013, and was the first new roller coaster to open at California’s Great America since 2001.
Up next, we’re naming the 10 best wooden coasters that opened in the 2010s:Ĭalifornia’s Great America – Santa Clara, CA Through the end of the month, we’re revealing each of those five top-10 lists. The Coaster101 team gathered the nominations, narrowed them down and ranked them in a list of 10 for each category. Last month, we asked readers to nominate their favorites in each of these five categories:
Welcome to another installment of the Attraction Awards of the 2010s - we’re highlighting the best roller coasters and attractions that opened (or closed) over the last decade.
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