GhostRider has become a worldwide coaster favorite in its 12 years of operation and with any luck will continue to rank highly for years to come. GhostRider speeds ahead over another hump and then enters the downward helix before a final hop sends the train into the brakes and curve back into the station. The track hops up with another Camelback hill and curves to the left to retrace the L-shaped layout with a fourth U-curving turnaround and another hop. Passengers climb into a third turnaround maneuver around the lift-hill curving 90 degrees left and to the 270 right. This Ghost Town setting offers you a view of the blacksmith at work, and you might even catch a glimpse of a Ghost Town cowboy showdown. This table-service western experience provides both indoor and outdoor patio dining with a view. Next, a 90-degree banked curve sends the train around to parallel the lift at breakneck speed. Park: 10 AM - 10 PM Waterpark: 10 AM - 7 PM View Hours. Climbing back up, the layout veers 180 degrees and through an S-curve before plunging back down. At the bottom, the coaster curves around to the left underneath the structure of an upcoming helix and quickly ascends over a speedy hill. Over the top of the lift, the ride begins with a tunneled first drop of over 50 degrees. The ride picks up exceptional pre-lift-hill speed with an S-curve into a U-turn and then engages on the lift-chain to begin a first 118-foot climb to the sky. Brave riders enter a mysterious mine and board gold, silver or copper mining car before being sent galloping along over 4,500 feet of twisting timber.
At the station, one of three golden, copper and silver trains is boarded and dispatched from the station. Looming 118 feet over historic Ghost Town, GhostRider is the largest attraction at Knott’s Berry Farm and one of the longest and tallest wooden roller coasters in the world. Guests to Knotts' themed Ghost Town section enter GhostRider's queue line and venture through a deserted mining tunnel. The 'Ghost also takes advantage of its speed to deliver maximum negative g's with hops and hills around every bend. And with a course constantly overlapping and tunneling through its own structure, the 60-mile-per-hour speeds of GhostRider are enhanced as lumber consistently wraps around the track as riders speed along. The coaster's compact, twisting L-shaped double out & back layout makes for 4,533 feet of wooden rails and 2.5 million board feet of timber densely crammed into an astonishingly small footprint of land. GhostRider flew over Knotts' Ghost Town for the first time in December of 1998 and was received by wooden coaster fanatics with flying colors. And a little wood proved just what the Berry Farm needed. This may apply, but not be limited to, guests who exceed 6'2' or those who exceed 250 pounds (some attractions may have lower weight restrictions), have a 46' waistline or 54' chest. What was it? The answer came in when Knott's announced their fifth coaster and first ever wooden addition - the GhostRider. perlster said: 'Due to rider restraint requirements, guests of exceptional size may not be accommodated on some of our attractions. But, being one of the United States' oldest destination parks, Knott's seemed to be lacking something. Looming 118 feet over Knotts historic Ghost Town, the GhostRider wooden coaster forever changed the look and feel of this venerable California theme park. whiplash rough ride wooden roller wooden coasters ghost roller coasters. queue building.Throughout the 20th century, Knott's Berry Farm grew in Buena Park, California to become one of the country's top-ranking parks for attendance, with a collection of three major steel coasters and a wide variety of other thrill rides in operation by the end of the 1990s. See what your friends are saying about GhostRider. There, it doubles-back on itself in a classic "out-and-back" fashion to return to the giant themed GhostRider Mining Co. GhostRider begins at the former site of Knott's Berry Farm's Pan for Gold (permanently relocated to Boot Hill) and stretches onto the former backstage property before veering left over Grand Avenue and into the former MarketPlace parking lot and comes within several hundred feet of bustling Beach Blvd. Highlights of this massive themed white-knuckler, include a dramatic 108-foot initial banked drop, 13 additional drops, sudden dips, banked turns, and a maximum G-force of 3.14. Brave GhostRiders enter a mysterious mine, only to be strapped into a gold, silver, or copper mining car and sent along 4,533 feet of twisting, unforgiving timber. Looming 118 feet over Knott's historic Ghost Town, the GhostRider wooden coaster forever changed the look and feel of this venerable California theme park.
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