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The Best Wooden Roller Coasters in the World
Pure wooden coasters and the steel-tracked hybrids built on wooden structures, judged on airtime, pacing and layout. Track material is shown on every row.
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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 - 2
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 - 3
Steel Vengeance
Over 27 seconds of airtime across four inversions — routinely voted the best coaster in the world.
Height / speed62 m · 119 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
Zadra
Europe's tallest hybrid coaster, with three inversions and the steepest drop on the continent.
Height / speed63 m · 121 km/h - 6
Balder
Intamin's prefabricated wooden track gives Balder glass-smooth pacing and a run of sustained ejector airtime that European enthusiasts still rate at the very top.
Height / speed36 m · 90 km/h - 7
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 - 8
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 - 9
Troy
A twisting GCI woodie built around a wooden horse, with a first drop into a tunnel and a layout that never lets the train settle.
Height / speed31.5 m · 92 km/h - 10
Untamed
A compact RMC conversion crammed with inversions, and the Netherlands' most intense coaster.
Height / speed36.5 m · 92 km/h - 11
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 - 12
Phoenix
Built in 1947 as Rocket in Texas, moved plank by plank to Pennsylvania in 1985, and still delivering the purest buzz-bar airtime in the world.
Height / speed22 m · 72 km/h - 13
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 - 14
Wildcat's Revenge
RMC rebuilt Hersheypark's 1923 Wildcat into a hybrid with the world's largest underflip, keeping the original wooden structure underneath.
Height / speed43 m · 100 km/h - 15
Colossos — Kampf der Giganten
One of the tallest wooden coasters ever built, retracked in 2019 and running better than new.
Height / speed60 m · 120 km/h - 16
Mystic Timbers
A fast, low, tightly wound GCI layout that finishes inside a storage shed — the best modern woodie in the American Midwest after The Beast itself.
Height / speed33 m · 85 km/h - 17
Wodan Timbur Coaster
Europa-Park's Nordic woodie, fast and twisted with near-constant lateral pull.
Height / speed40 m · 100 km/h - 18
GhostRider
The longest wooden coaster on the American West Coast, retracked in 2016 and now as smooth and aggressive as it was on opening day.
Height / speed36 m · 90 km/h - 19
Thunderhead
A twisting Smoky Mountain woodie famous for the station fly-through — the train passes back through the loading building at full speed.
Height / speed30 m · 89 km/h - 20
Joris en de Draak
Efteling's racing woodie runs two duelling trains, Water and Fire, side by side — gentle enough for younger children but genuinely fun for adults.
Height / speed21 m · 75 km/h
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