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Scorpion's Tail
Water Slide at Noah's Ark Waterpark, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. Opened 2010.
- Height
- n/a
- Drop
- 55 ft
- Top speed
- n/a
- Length
- 400 ft
- Inversions
- n/a
- Ride time
- n/a
- Designer
- WhiteWater West
Scorpion's Tail is a body slide at Noah's Ark Waterpark in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. It is a WhiteWater West AquaLoop and opened in the summer of 2010, billed as the first slide of its kind in the United States.
Riders stand in a launch capsule until a trapdoor opens beneath them. They fall down a 55-foot chute at a 70-degree slope into a loop tilted at 60 degrees, about 27 feet high, before running out to the end of the slide. The park describes the slide as ten stories high and 400 feet long.
The park lists a minimum height of 48 inches and a rider weight of 90 to 300 pounds.
Sources
- noahsarkwaterpark.com/discover-the-park/attractions/scorpion... (Official ride page: ten stories high, 400 ft long; nearly vertical loop; minimum height 48 in; 90 to 300 lbs)
- popsci.com/science/article/2010-05/how-it-works-computerized... (Popular Science, May 2010: opening that summer at Noah's Ark; WhiteWater West; 55 ft chute at 70 degrees; loop tilted 60 degrees, 27 ft high; about 30 mph before the loop)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark_Water_Park (Scorpion's Tail (2010), WhiteWater West AquaLoop, America's first upside-down looping body slide)
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.