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Ladybug Roller Coaster
Steel Family at Carousel Gardens Amusement Park, New Orleans, Louisiana. Opened 2015.
- Height
- 30 ft
- Drop
- n/a
- Top speed
- 20 mph
- Length
- n/a
- Inversions
- 0
- Ride time
- n/a
- Designer
- Zierer
The Ladybug Roller Coaster is a family roller coaster at Carousel Gardens Amusement Park in New Orleans City Park, Louisiana. It is the only roller coaster operating in New Orleans.
The park's first ladybug coaster, the Live Oak Ladybug, was installed in the late 1980s and was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. With $1.4 million in FEMA funding, City Park brought a ladybug coaster back, and the current ride opened on February 28, 2015. RCDB lists it as a Zierer Force Two model designed by Werner Stengel's firm, 30 feet tall, with a top speed of 20 mph and no inversions. A booster-wheel lift carries its single ten-car train of 20 riders.
Sources
- rcdb.com/7655.htm (RCDB: Lady Bug, Carousel Gardens, operating; Zierer Force / Two; designer Ing.-Buro Stengel; 30 ft, 20 mph, 0 inversions; booster wheel lift; 1 train of 10 cars, 20 riders; cost 1,400,000.)
- rcdb.com/4650.htm (RCDB: Live Oak Ladybug listed among the park's removed coasters.)
- fox8live.com/story/28181223/city-parks-ladybug-roller-coaste... (Fox 8, February 23, 2015: Ladybug coaster reopens Saturday, February 28; FEMA paid $1.4 million after Katrina damage; original installed in the late 1980s.)
- nolalibrary.org/2026/08/14/roller-coasters (New Orleans Public Library: the ladybug at Carousel Gardens is the only roller coaster left in the city since Six Flags New Orleans closed after Katrina.)
- neworleanscitypark.org/attractions/carousel-gardens-amusemen... (Official name 'Ladybug Roller Coaster'.)
Numbers are from the ride's manufacturer and park where published; "n/a" means we have not confirmed that number yet. Spotted an error? Tell us.