Have you ever wondered where the tallest rollercoasters in the world are located? If you love amusement parks, and enjoy rollercoaster rides as much as we do, you’ll probably fancy the list we have prepared. Each rollercoaster has its own special feature. Some are known for their speed, others for their vertigo, others for their own unique features.
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What we want from a rollercoaster is usually for it to be fast and provide an incredibly thrilling ride. But in order to reach a high speed, rollercoasters needs to scale some impressive heights. These attractions with vertigo-inducing heights are spread across the world, and especially in the United States.
So we’ve made a list with the 13 tallest rollercoasters in the world according to the height of their drops, thus gathering the most vertiginous rollercoasters in the world. The ranking has been updated, and includes the soon-to-be tallest rollercoaster in the world, to be opened in 2016. Check out our list of the 13 tallest rollercoasters in the world!
13. Phantom’s Revenge
228 Foot Drop
Located in Kennywood, Pennsylvania, this hypercoaster debuted as Steel Phantom. The Phantom’s revenge is 160 feet tall, and drops 228 feet into a ravine.
12. Fujiyama
230 Foot Drop
Fujiyama is located in Fuji-Q Highland, Yamanashi, Japan. It is 259 feet high, and drops from 230 feet, doing 6,708 feet in 3:36 minutes.
T10. Goliath
255 Foot Drop
The Goliath is for many one of the scariest rollercoasters out there. It is located in California at Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia. With a height of 235 feet, the Goliath is almost unbearably fast.
T10. Titan
255 Foot Drop
Hypercoaster located in Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington, Texas, the Titan is 245 feet tall. It does its whole track in 3:30 minutes, reaching a top speed of 85 mph.
9. Shambhala
256 Foot Drop
Spanish monster, Shambhala is located in Port Aventura, in Salou, Tarragona. It is themed as a mountain-expedition coaster, and is the tallest in Europe, with a height of 249 feet.
8. Intimidator
305 Foot Drop
This giant located in Kings Dominion, Doswell, Virginia, is known as a Giga-Coaster, this is a rollercoaster which goes out and back. It is 305 feet tall, and reaches pretty high speeds and G-forces.
7.Leviathan
306 Foot Drop
Toronto’s most amazing Giga-Coaster, located in Canada’s Wonderland, Leviathan has a height of 306 feet. Smooth and fast, this coaster is among the experts’ favorites.
6. Millennium Force
310 Foot Drop
At Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio, the Millennium force rises to a height of 310 feet. The rollercoaster uses an elevator cable instead of a lift chain to move its trains up the 310 foot hill, and accelerates to 93 mph at the bottom of the first drop.
5. Steel Dragon 2000
318 Foot Drop
Japan has always been on the leading edge of technical innovations, and that is no different with rollercoasters. At Nagashima Spa Land stands the Steel Dragon 2000, a 318 foot, crazy terra-coaster. It uses a traditional lift hill and gravity to propel its trains. The Steel Dragon 2000 does 8133 feet in four minutes.
T3. Tower of Terror
328 Foot Drop
Located in Dreamworld, Queensland, Australia, this magnetic induction shuttle coaster is indeed a next step regarding engineering development. It uses linear synchronous motors and reaches a height of 328 feet.
T3. Superman: Escape from Krypton
328 Foot Drop
Another fantasy from Six Flags Magic Mountain, in Valencia, California, this rollercoaster debuted in 1997 as Superman: The Escape. It was re-released in 2011, with a magnetic induction shuttle, and a height of 415 feet.
2. Top Thrill Dragster
400 Foot Drop
Top Thrill Dragster is a hydraulic launch rocket coaster, located in Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio. It rises 420 feet, and was the world’s tallest and fastest rollercoaster for some years. Today, it stands second on the list, but is still one of the greatest rides in the world.
1. Kingda Ka
418 Foot Drop
New Jersey’s amusement park Six Flags Great Adventure has the tallest rollercoaster in the world as of 2014. This is another hydraulic launch rocket coaster, which reaches a height of 456 feet. Fastest and tallest, the Kingda Ka is the most thrilling ride you can have on a coaster today.
Check the final page for a bonus item, a rollercoaster under construction that will be by far the tallest in the world once completed.
Unranked: SkyScraper
570 Feet Drop
Set to break all records, the SkyScraper is scheduled to open in 2016. It will apparently reach a height of 570 feet and a speed of about 65 mph and include inversions. The place: SkyPlex on International Drive in Orlando. Book your 2016 vacation there today!
