Zippin Pippin, Wooden roller coaster at Bay Beach Amusement Park, Green Bay, United States
Zippin Pippin is a wooden roller coaster at Bay Beach Amusement Park in Green Bay, Wisconsin, carrying riders along a 2,347-foot (715-meter) track through turns at 42 miles per hour (68 kilometers per hour). The ride climbs to a maximum height of 70 feet (21 meters) and runs trains with five cars that hold thirty people at once.
John Miller and Harry Baker originally built the ride between 1912 and 1917 in Memphis, Tennessee, where it operated for more than nine decades. After the Memphis park closed in 2005, mechanical parts from a later Tennessee coaster were used to rebuild it in Green Bay in 2011.
Elvis Presley frequently visited this roller coaster during his time in Memphis, making his final ride just eight days before his passing in 1977.
Visitors need four ride tickets for the coaster, which cost twenty-five cents each at the park. The ride suits families and older children who already have some experience with mild coasters.
The ride carries the same name as its Memphis predecessor, honoring one of the oldest wooden coasters in America. In earlier days, every ride smelled of hot motor oil because the old engines ran directly beneath the station.
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