Sidewinder (Elitch Gardens)

Steel roller coaster

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Sidewinder

Previously known as Roaring Tornado at Magic Springs & Crystal Falls

Sidewinder's Loop

Elitch Gardens
Coordinates| 39°44′55″N 105°00′45″W﻿ / ﻿39.748614°N 105.012612°W﻿ / 39.748614; -105.012612
Status| Closed
Opening date| May 27, 1995
Magic Springs & Crystal Falls
Coordinates| 34°31′08″N 93°00′58″W﻿ / ﻿34.519°N 93.016°W﻿ / 34.519; -93.016
Status| Removed
Opening date| 1980
Closing date| 1989
General statistics
Type| Steel – Launched – Shuttle
Manufacturer| Arrow Dynamics
Designer| Arrow Dynamics
Model| Launched Loop
Track layout| Shuttle Loop
Lift/launch system| Launch
Height| 56 ft (17 m)
Drop| 47 ft (14 m)
Length| 635 ft (194 m)
Speed| 45 mph (72 km/h)
Inversions| 1
Duration| 1:06
Max vertical angle| 47°
Capacity| 400 riders per hour
G-force| 4.0
Height restriction| 48 in (122 cm)
Trains| Single train with 6 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 24 riders per train.
Sidewinder at RCDB

Sidewinder is a steel roller coaster located at Elitch Gardens in Denver, Colorado.

This is a fairly simple coaster that takes rides through one loop. Instead of starting from the ground, riders have to ascend stairs fifty feet up to the loading station. The train is launched down a hill, goes into the loop, then ascends a slope opposite of the station with a braking section. The train repeats the layout backwards, and returns to the station.

Before being operated at Elitch Gardens this roller coaster was at the Magic Springs & Crystal Falls amusement park as the Roaring Tornado. The coaster operated at the original Elitch Gardens from 1990 to 1994, then was relocated to the current Elitch Gardens in 1995.

It is one of only three Arrow Dynamics launched loop coasters to be operating around the world, the others being Diamond Back at Frontier City, and the Revolution at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

The ride has received new paint for the 2010 season, and is now more of a lime green than the darker shade it has been since being repainted from its original white.

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* Boomerang
* Half Pipe
* Mind Eraser
* Sidewinder
* Twister II

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* Cactus Coaster
* Rainbow
* Soarin' Eagle

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