Gold Striker, Wooden roller coaster at California's Great America, Santa Clara, US

Gold Striker is a wooden roller coaster at California's Great America in Santa Clara that runs along roughly 3,200 feet (975 meters) of track with hills and rapid descents. The ride operates two trains, each with 12 cars, using traditional wooden coaster design.

Plans for a new coaster at California's Great America date to 2009 but were cancelled; the project was revived in 2012, when a permit was approved for the park's northern half. Construction began in May 2012, the name Gold Striker was trademarked that July, and the ride opened on May 31, 2013. It closed on July 1, 2013 after noise complaints and reopened July 4 with a 70-foot tunnel added.

The name and design recall the California Gold Rush, connecting the attraction to Northern California's mining heritage from the 1800s. Visitors notice these historical references throughout the ride's theming.

The first drop is fully enclosed and wraps around the park's Star Tower, so riders pass through the tunnel immediately after cresting the 108-foot lift hill. The coaster sits in the northern half of California's Great America, near the Celebration Plaza that the final turns face.

The 174-foot (53 m) tunnel on the first drop is the longest of any wooden coaster's first drop. It was added after the ride's July 2013 closure, when noise tests at a nearby office building found screaming riders slightly exceeded city limits; the coaster reopened on July 4, 2013.