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Carowinds is a 407-acre (165 ha) amusement park primarily located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation , the park first opened to the public on March 31, 1973.
Fury 325 is a steel roller coaster located at Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.The Giga Coaster manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard opened to the public on March 28, 2015, featuring 6,602 feet (2,012 m) of track and a maximum height of 325 feet (99 m), making it the fifth-tallest roller coaster in the world and the tallest overall that uses a traditional ...
Pages in category "Carowinds" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Carowinds Monorail – removed in 1994; Flying Super Saturator – removed in 2008 due to low capacity and high maintenance costs; replaced by Carolina Cobra in 2009; Frenzoid – removed in 2005 but put beside the Afterburn coaster in 2007 then removed in 2022; Joe Cool's Driving School – removed in the 2012–2013 off season
On August 15, 1991, Carowinds announced that a new stand-up roller coaster would be added to the park in 1992 called Vortex. [3] It was the first coaster built at Carowinds since Carolina Cyclone in 1980, and also became the park's most expensive ride to date at $5.5 million. [3]
On August 27, 2015, Carowinds announced that Boomerang Bay would undergo a major expansion in 2016 and would be renamed Carolina Harbor. The expansion includes a new wave pool named Surf Club Harbor , 2 children splash areas named Myrtle Turtle Beach and Kitty Hawk Cove , a six-story, six-slide complex named Blackbeard's Revenge , [ 3 ] and a ...
Thunder Road was a wooden roller coaster located at Carowinds amusement park on the border between Fort Mill, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. [1] Opened in 1976 and built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, the racing roller coaster cost $1.6 million to construct and featured two identical tracks that paralleled each other.
Afterburn is an inverted roller coaster located at Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina.After more than two years of planning and construction, the roller coaster opened on March 20, 1999.