Is This the Best Roller Coaster Currently in Existence?
Did I inadvertently ride the greatest roller coaster in existence today?
New theme park rides and coasters are constantly being built to one-up each other, so that no one ride can be known as “the best” for too long. But which beast is currently leading in the coaster realm?
Do you recognize the coaster from these photos? Can you guess which coaster it is?
Back in 2020, I visited Cedar Fair’s greatest and most notable US theme park for the first time. This company now owns the theme park I had grown up with in Canada (that used to be owned by Paramount) — having spent countless summers as a season pass holder of this park as a child.
I rode the classic coasters of that great park over and over again. Those whose childhoods crossed paths with this park might find these coaster names familiar: Dragon Fire, The Bat, The Beast, The Fly, The Great Canadian Mine Buster, Vortex, Silver Streak, Thunder Run, Top Gun (now known as Flight Deck), and the now defunct SkyRider. Yes, this park is Canada’s Wonderland. This was the park where I had experienced my first coaster…
