Desert Storm, Steel roller coaster at Castles N' Coasters in Phoenix, Arizona, US
Desert Storm is a steel roller coaster at Castles N' Coasters amusement park in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring two vertical loops. The track is painted green and white and runs close to the ground through a series of tight turns and a helix.
The coaster was built by Hopkins Rides and opened in 1992 as one of the park's first major attractions. Its arrival helped put Castles N' Coasters on the map for thrill seekers in the Phoenix area.
The coaster's green-and-white track passes over the Li'l Indy go-kart track and close to Splashdown, the park's log flume. The queue runs past the Flying Bugs and Spinning Tops children's rides before climbing stairs to the boarding platform. In 2017 the ride appeared in the MacGillivray Freeman film Dream Big: Engineering Our World.
The queue line passes the Flying Bugs and Spinning Tops children's rides before climbing stairs to the boarding platform. The train has seven cars with two rows of two seats each, holding 28 riders per cycle. The track runs close to the Li'l Indy go-kart track and near the Splashdown flume, so riders can watch both from the queue.
One section of the track spirals back through the middle of one of the vertical loops, so the two elements share the same physical space. This kind of interlocking layout is rarely seen on coasters of this size and is easy to spot from the ground.
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