GhostRider, Wooden roller coaster at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, US.
GhostRider is a wooden roller coaster at Knott's Berry Farm theme park in Buena Park, California, spanning 1,381 meters (4,533 feet). The train travels up to 90 kilometers per hour (56 miles per hour) and climbs to a height of 36 meters (118 feet).
The attraction opened in December 1998 and was then considered the largest wooden roller coaster in the western half of North America. In 2015 the entire wooden structure was renewed and the track and trains were completely replaced.
The train cars display colors from the mining era and recall the prospectors who once traveled through California. The station building resembles an old mine and places visitors in the atmosphere of the gold rush.
Two trains run simultaneously on the track and shorten the waiting time for visitors. Each train has twelve cars that seat two people side by side.
The layout follows an L-shaped pattern and travels twice in opposite directions before returning to the starting point. The first drop descends at a 51-degree angle and remains the longest wooden roller coaster on the West Coast.
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