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Superman: Ride of Steel
Steel Hyper at Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Opened 2000, closed 2025.
This ride has closed. It last operated at Six Flags America in 2025.
- Height
- 197 ft
- Drop
- 205 ft
- Top speed
- 73 mph
- Length
- 5,350 ft
- Inversions
- 0
- Ride time
- 2 min 10 s
- Designer
- Intamin
Superman: Ride of Steel last ran on November 2, 2025, when Six Flags America closed permanently.
Superman: Ride of Steel was a steel roller coaster at Six Flags America in Bowie, Maryland. Built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel's engineering firm, it opened on May 13, 2000, and operated until November 2, 2025, when the whole park closed permanently.
History
The coaster's layout is a mirror image of Ride of Steel at Six Flags Darien Lake in New York, which opened a year earlier. During the 2016 season, riders could wear optional virtual reality headsets; the feature was later removed. On May 1, 2025, Six Flags announced that Six Flags America would close on November 2, 2025. The company said the park and its Hurricane Harbor water park were not a strategic fit with its long-term growth plan and that it would market the property for redevelopment. At the time it said it had not decided what would happen to each ride, and that moving rides to other parks or selling them to other operators were options.
The ride was an Intamin Mega Coaster with a chain lift hill. Its trains climbed 197 feet and dropped 205 feet at a 68-degree angle, reaching 73 mph. The 5,350-foot course had no inversions, and a ride lasted about 2 minutes 10 seconds. Two trains of eight cars each carried 32 riders.
Sources
- rcdb.com/699.htm (Intamin; operated 2000-05-13 to 2025-11-02, SBNO since 2025-11-03; length 5350 ft, height 197 ft, drop 205 ft, speed 73 mph, 0 inversions, duration 2:10)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_of_Steel (Opened May 13, 2000; mirror of the Darien Lake ride, which opened in 1999; VR announced in 2016 and later removed; closure announced May 1, 2025 for November 2, 2025)
- patch.com/maryland/bowie/six-flags-officially-closed-after-5... (Park's last day of operation November 2, 2025)
- wmar2news.com/six-flags-and-hurricane-harbor-in-bowie-offici... (Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor in Bowie officially closed; final operating day Sunday, November 2; CEO quote on strategic fit and redevelopment)
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