The park is giving away six pieces of authentic Thunderbolt coaster wood. You can apply online, then the winners will be contacted by the park on Nov. 15. (Photo: Kennywood) ...

The Jack Rabbit opened in 1920. This season, Kennywood Park will celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the wooden roller coaster.

When this new coaster at California’s Great America was first announced last summer, managers at the park claimed it would be the tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster in Northern California ...

Construction for the new wooden roller coaster at Kings Island is underway, the amusement park tweeted Monday.The coaster's path has been laid out in the Rivertown area of the park.Mystic Timbers ...

Six Flags Magic Mountain plans to convert a classic wooden coaster into the world’s longest hybrid coaster that adds two barrel roll inversions and a first-of-its-kind in the U.S.

The western-themed Boardwalk Bullet Roller Coaster is 3,300-linear-feet of fast paced, twisting and turning, unrelenting action. Rated by coaster enthusiasts as one of the top 10 wooden roller ...

Great Coasters International, the other major wooden coaster manufacturer, is building the 5,100-foot-long Viper wooden terrain coaster at China’s Wanda City park -- but it has no loops.

Wooden coasters tend to hold on to the Amusement Today top ranking for several years in a row. Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana, was home to the world’s best wooden coaster from 2000 to ...

Robb Alvey, who has been on over 1,400 coasters around the world and operates ThemeParkReview.com, said the roller coasters that have been turned into new rides were already nearing the end of ...

Colossus — the world’s tallest and fastest roller coaster when it opened in 1978 at Six Flags Magic Mountain near Los Angeles — is getting the same treatment, becoming Twisted Colossus.