The Iron Menace is a steel roller coaster with multiple inversions at Dorney Park. This coaster has a height of 160 feet and reaches a maximum speed of 64 miles per hour. The track length of this coaster is 2,169 feet and features four inversions. The drop of the Iron Menace is 152 feet at a 95-degree angle. This coaster also has a total duration of a minute and thirty seconds. This coaster was designed by TRA Design but was manufactured by Bolliger and Mabillard in 2024.
The Whirlwind is almost a kiddie version of the Steel Dragon. The Whirlwind has a train of rotating cars, as it goes along a smaller track. This coaster doesn’t have a lift hill- instead, it uses booster wheels. It also circles the track multiple times during the ride. This ride only has a height of 14 feet, and a track length of 190 feet. The Whirlwind opened in 2020.
The Steel Dragon is a steel coaster in Waldameer, Erie. It has a rotating, square car, with two people facing forwards and two facing backwards. The car spins, so riders facing forward are also sometimes facing backwards. The Steel Dragon is about 50 feet tall, around 38 miles per hour speed, and has approximately 1,400 feet of track. This coaster was designed by Zamperla and opened in 2004.
The Ravine Flyer 3 is much the opposite of the Ravine Flyer II. The Ravine Flyer 3 is a small, children’s roller coaster that stands just 13 feet tall, with only 330 feet of track. Unlike the Ravine Flyer and the Ravine Flyer II, this kiddie coaster is made of steel. This ride opened in 2000 (Before the Ravine Flyer II) and was made by E&F Industries.
The Comet at Waldameer is a wooden coaster that opened in 1951, built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters. This smaller coaster only has a total height of 37 feet and caps out at just 25 miles per hour. The track of this coaster is about 1,300 feet long and has a duration of somewhere around a minute and 25 seconds.
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The Ravine Flyer II at Waldameer is an unpainted wooden coaster that opened in 2008. Though it is a brown color, it is still a fan favorite. The Ravine Flyer II was inspired by the Ravine Flyer. The Ravine Flyer closed after a tragic incident and was disassembled. Waldameer then had the idea to have a coaster cross over Peninsula Drive, which is a highway right next to the park. After lots of planning and legal battles, Waldameer won the rights to build a coaster over the road. They did later, and the wooden coaster finally opened in 2008. The Ravine Flyer II now has a height of 112 feet, a speed of 53 miles per hour, and a total track length of 3,300 feet. The Ravine Flyer II is also the only coaster in the world to cross a four-lane highway.
The Steel Curtain at Kennywood reaches the tallest height of a roller coaster in all of Pennsylvania. In fact, this coaster is 220 feet tall. This Coaster features 9 inversions, which was the first in North America to do so. One of these inversions is at 197 feet, making it the tallest inversion in the world. This coaster has 4,000 feet of steel track and only lasts two minutes. The car’s maximum speed is 76 miles per hour on this track. This coaster opened in 2019 and was built and designed by S&S.
Dutch Wonderland is an amusement park in Lancaster, PA. The park has one wooden coaster, two steel coasters, one of which is inverted. Dutch Wonderland is considered a family-friendly park, due to the fact that most of the rides target kids. Opening in 1963, Dutch Wonderland has constantly been voted as one of the top 5 kid’s amusement park by Amusement Today magazine. Each year, the park get around 400,000 visitors.
The Joust is the smallest roller coaster at Dutch Wonderland, with just 350 feet of track. The car does go around this white colored track twice, but only has a duration of just under a minute and thirty seconds. This small coaster caps out at just 16 feet, and normally goes about the same in miles per hour, because this ride targets smaller riders. The Joust opened in 1998 and was designed/manufactured by Chance Rides.
