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Sea Dragon
Wood Out-and-Back at Zoombezi Bay and Rides at Adventure Cove, Powell, Ohio. Opened 1956.
- Height
- 37 ft
- Drop
- n/a
- Top speed
- 25 mph
- Length
- 1,320 ft
- Inversions
- 0
- Ride time
- 1 min 30 s
- Designer
- Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters
Sea Dragon is a wooden roller coaster in the ride area of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, Ohio, next to the Zoombezi Bay water park. It opened in 1956 as the Jet Flyer at what was then Zoo Park, and was renamed Sea Dragon in 1984, when the site reopened as Wyandot Lake.
John C. Allen designed it shortly after becoming president of Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, which built it. The zoo describes a double out-and-back, figure-eight layout that starts with a 37-foot hill, on 1,320 feet of track, with a top speed of 25 mph. A single train of four cars carries 16 riders, and a ride lasts about 1 minute 30 seconds.
Sea Dragon is the oldest John Allen coaster still operating, and since Big Dipper at Geauga Lake closed in 2007 it has been the oldest operating wooden roller coaster in Ohio. The zoo kept it when it bought Wyandot Lake from Six Flags in 2006. Riders must be 48 inches tall, or 42 inches with a supervising companion.
Sources
- columbuszoo.org/ride/sea-dragon (Zoo ride page: classic wooden coaster, double out-and-back figure-eight layout, 37-foot hill, 1,320 feet long, up to 25 mph; area Adventure Cove; height requirement 48 inches, or 42 inches with a supervising companion; seasonal.)
- rcdb.com/324.htm (RCDB: operating wooden family coaster at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium; make Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, serial 125; designer John C. Allen; former name Jet Flyer; length 1,320 ft, height 35 ft, 25 mph, 0 inversions, duration 1:30; single train of 4 cars, 16 riders.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(roller_coaster) (Opened 1956 as Jet Flyer; designed by John C. Allen shortly after he became president of PTC in 1954; renamed Sea Dragon in 1984 when the park reopened as Wyandot Lake; oldest operating John Allen coaster; oldest operating wooden coaster in Ohio since Big Dipper at Geauga Lake closed in 2007.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombezi_Bay (Floyd Gooding acquired Zoo Park in 1956 and added the Jet Flyer; zoo bought Wyandot Lake from Six Flags in 2006; Sea Dragon stayed in place.)
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