Riders must be able to hold on with one functioning arm and brace with one functioning leg. Each rider must be able to remain sitting up straight, keeping their head upright, their back and shoulders against the seatback, and their hands, arms, legs, and feet down and inside the ride at alt times.If a Guest Service Associate is not present, please have the Guest Service Associate at the GhostRider Goods shop, across the midway, assist you.

To access the attraction loading area, please see the Guest Service Associate at the midway entrance to the GhostRider building.

The GhostRider combines state of the art thrills with an old west flavor.

The GhostRider is the tallest, longest, and fastest wooden roller coaster in the Western United States.

In late 2015 through spring 2016, a complete track refurbishment was performed on the ride creating an improved ride experience with a smoother track and new trains. GhostRider has been routinely featured on the lists of the best wooden coasters in the entire world since opening in 1998. For the ultimate thrill, take a ride at night when every twist and turn is hidden in darkness.

The massive roller coaster includes 14 hills providing tons of air time throughout the nearly three minute journey. GhostRider has become a worldwide coaster favorite in its 12 years of operation and with any luck will continue to rank highly for years to come.GhostRider is the longest, tallest, and fastest wooden roller coaster on the West Coast! Looming 118 feet over historic Ghost Town, GhostRider is the largest attraction at Knott’s Berry Farm and one of the longest and tallest wooden roller coasters in the world.īrave riders enter a mysterious mine and board gold, silver or copper mining car before being sent galloping along over 4,500 feet of twisting timber.

GhostRider speeds ahead over another hump and then enters the downward helix before a final hop sends the train into the brakes and curve back into the station. The track hops up with another Camelback hill and curves to the left to retrace the L-shaped layout with a fourth U-curving turnaround and another hop. Passengers climb into a third turnaround maneuver around the lift-hill curving 90 degrees left and to the 270 right. Next, a 90-degree banked curve sends the train around to parallel the lift at breakneck speed. Climbing back up, the layout veers 180 degrees and through an S-curve before plunging back down. At the bottom, the coaster curves around to the left underneath the structure of an upcoming helix and quickly ascends over a speedy hill. Over the top of the lift, the ride begins with a tunneled first drop of over 50 degrees. The ride picks up exceptional pre-lift-hill speed with an S-curve into a U-turn and then engages on the lift-chain to begin a first 118-foot climb to the sky. At the station, one of three golden, copper and silver trains is boarded and dispatched from the station. Guests to Knotts' themed Ghost Town section enter GhostRider's queue line and venture through a deserted mining tunnel. The 'Ghost also takes advantage of its speed to deliver maximum negative g's with hops and hills around every bend. And with a course constantly overlapping and tunneling through its own structure, the 60-mile-per-hour speeds of GhostRider are enhanced as lumber consistently wraps around the track as riders speed along. The coaster's compact, twisting L-shaped double out & back layout makes for 4,533 feet of wooden rails and 2.5 million board feet of timber densely crammed into an astonishingly small footprint of land. GhostRider flew over Knotts' Ghost Town for the first time in December of 1998 and was received by wooden coaster fanatics with flying colors. And a little wood proved just what the Berry Farm needed. What was it? The answer came in when Knott's announced their fifth coaster and first ever wooden addition - the GhostRider. But, being one of the United States' oldest destination parks, Knott's seemed to be lacking something. Throughout the 20th century, Knott's Berry Farm grew in Buena Park, California to become one of the country's top-ranking parks for attendance, with a collection of three major steel coasters and a wide variety of other thrill rides in operation by the end of the 1990s.

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