Midwest Theme Park Opening Record-Breaking Roller Coaster This Weekend

An old roller coaster has been re-imagined, and its record-breaking stats will have thrill seekers from all over the country coming to this Midwest theme park.

The roller coaster is considered a "strata" coaster, that would be any roller coaster that is over 400 feet tall, this coaster comes in at a terrifying 420 feet and riders hit 120 MPH on the 2-minute-long ride.

The original roller coaster called Top Thrill Dragster, located at Cedar Point theme park in Sandusky, Ohio, was built in 2003, at the time it was the tallest and fastest coaster in the world, but after an accident in 2021, the coaster was closed and plans were made to create a new ride experience.

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This weekend, that new ride experience opens to the public as Top Thrill 2, the newly reimagined coaster now features an additional 420-foot tower and two more launch cycles.

Riders are launched at 74 MPH to begin the ride and make their way up the main tower before rolling back and being launched at 101 MPH backwards up the newly added tower and finally launched at 120 MPH to make it over the 420-foot tower into a 270-degree spiral and back to the station.

Cedar Point is owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, which also owns and operates Valleyfair in Minnesota. The company is in the process of merging with Six Flags, but regulators are still working to approve that deal.

Cedar Point is the second-oldest theme park in North America, it opened in 1870 and has a total of 68 rides, including 18 roller coasters, a water park, a huge beach, hotels and more.