Ride records · Editorial pick · United States
The Best Roller Coasters in the USA
The American cut of our world ranking, judged on layout, pacing and airtime rather than raw statistics. Published specs are shown for every ride.
Which parks hold the most records
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Steel Vengeance
Over 27 seconds of airtime across four inversions — routinely voted the best coaster in the world.
Height / speed62 m · 119 km/h - 2
Jurassic World VelociCoaster
Two launches, a mosasaurus roll over the lagoon, and the tightest theming-to-thrill ratio anywhere.
Height / speed47 m · 113 km/h - 3
El Toro
The gold standard for wooden coasters — a 76-degree drop and airtime that lifts you clean out of the seat.
Height / speed55 m · 112 km/h - 4
Iron Gwazi
North America's tallest hybrid coaster and the world's fastest and steepest, with a 91-degree drop off a rebuilt wooden structure.
Height / speed63 m · 122 km/h - 5
Fury 325
The definitive modern giga: 99 m, 153 km/h and a first drop that runs the whole length of the midway.
Height / speed99 m · 153 km/h - 6
Millennium Force
The first giga coaster and still the benchmark for relentless, cable-lifted speed over water.
Height / speed94 m · 150 km/h - 7
Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure
Seven launches, a vertical drop track and story beats woven into every metre of the Forbidden Forest.
Height / speed20 m · 80 km/h - 8
The Voyage
Almost two kilometres of relentless wooden track with five underground tunnels and more airtime hills than any other woodie built this century.
Height / speed50.3 m · 108 km/h - 9
The Beast
Still the longest wooden roller coaster on earth after more than four decades — a 2,243 m run through the woods that ends with a double-helix tunnel.
Height / speed33.5 m · 103 km/h - 10
Expedition Everest
Disney's most expensive coaster: a Himalayan mountain, a broken track and a backwards plunge in the dark.
Height / speed60 m · 80 km/h - 11
Intimidator 305
A 93 m plunge into a first turn so forceful it was retracked — still the most aggressive giga built.
Height / speed93 m · 145 km/h - 12
Top Thrill 2
Cedar Point's reborn strata coaster trades hydraulics for LSMs and adds a backwards launch up a second spike.
Height / speed128 m · 193 km/h - 13
Outlaw Run
The ride that proved wooden coasters could invert: an 81-degree first drop, a double barrel roll and a 153-degree overbanked turn.
Height / speed49 m · 109 km/h - 14
Lightning Rod
The world's first launched hybrid coaster, a hot-rod run down a Smoky Mountain ridge, retired in 2024.
Height / speed50 m · 117 km/h - 15
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
A rotating-vehicle indoor coaster that spins riders toward each show scene as it launches backwards.
Height / speed21 m · 96 km/h - 16
Time Traveler
The world's fastest, steepest and tallest spinning coaster, launched three times through the Ozarks.
Height / speed30 m · 80 km/h - 17
Banshee
The longest inverted coaster in the world, opening with a dive loop straight off the lift and packing seven inversions into 1,257 m.
Height / speed51 m · 109 km/h - 18
Nitro
New Jersey's airtime machine — eight hills of floater over the Pine Barrens.
Height / speed70 m · 128 km/h - 19
Boulder Dash
Carved straight down the side of a mountain, so the train races the terrain rather than a structure — the definitive wooden terrain coaster.
Height / speed35 m · 97 km/h - 20
Skyrush
Notorious for brutal ejector airtime and lap bars that make every hill a fight.
Height / speed61 m · 121 km/h
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