Millennium Force 310 feet
Millennium Force 310 feet, Millennium Force is an Intamin AG built giga roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, USA. It was the park's fourteenth roller coaster since Blue Streak in 1964.
When built in 2000, it was the first complete circuit roller coaster to exceed 300 feet in height and was briefly the tallest full-circuit roller coaster in the world until the opening of Steel Dragon 2000 in August 2000. Also, it is the second longest roller coaster in North America after The Beast at Kings Island. It is also the first roller coaster to utilize a cable lift system, rather than a traditional chain lift.
Millennium Force constantly receives high ratings from the Golden Ticket Awards, switching between 1st and 2nd with the Intamin hyper coaster, "Bizarro", located at Six Flags New England.
Millennium Force was opened at Cedar Point in 2000, named for its introduction in the new millennium. The coaster broke 8 records by itself and helped its park break 5 others (see below).
The coaster was Cedar Point's 14th, and was the very first roller coaster to use a cable lift hill rather than the traditional chain lift.
An 800-horsepower motor located below the lift hill, turns a set of sprocket gears to operate this mechanism. Millennium Force features 3 trains: one red, one yellow, and one blue. Each car has a capacity of 4 people, and each train carries 9 cars, allowing for a capacity 36 people in 18 rows of 2.
The catch car for Millennium Force's cable lift carries the train up the 310-foot hill at a 45-degree angle in a little over 20 seconds by latching onto the middle of the train. The train then drops 300-feet at an 80 degree angle, reaching a top speed of 93 mph.
It then climbs a 169-foot overbanked turn at 122 degrees. Then the train travels through the first tunnel and over a 182-foot parabolic airtime hill, passing over a lagoon and down onto Millennium Island. While on Millennium Island, the train completes a 105-foot, 360-degree helix, followed by a left overbanked turn and then a small right-hand turn before traveling over another airtime hill to exit the island.
The train then travels over a smaller airtime hill and into another tunnel, right next to the first tunnel from earlier in the ride. A final airtime hill, right next to the queue, is crested. The train finishes the ride by traveling through a 68-foot overbanked turn over the queue and stops at the brake run. Riders exit the train at the exit platform, and the train then returns back to the station.
When built in 2000, it was the first complete circuit roller coaster to exceed 300 feet in height and was briefly the tallest full-circuit roller coaster in the world until the opening of Steel Dragon 2000 in August 2000. Also, it is the second longest roller coaster in North America after The Beast at Kings Island. It is also the first roller coaster to utilize a cable lift system, rather than a traditional chain lift.
Millennium Force constantly receives high ratings from the Golden Ticket Awards, switching between 1st and 2nd with the Intamin hyper coaster, "Bizarro", located at Six Flags New England.
Millennium Force was opened at Cedar Point in 2000, named for its introduction in the new millennium. The coaster broke 8 records by itself and helped its park break 5 others (see below).
The coaster was Cedar Point's 14th, and was the very first roller coaster to use a cable lift hill rather than the traditional chain lift.
An 800-horsepower motor located below the lift hill, turns a set of sprocket gears to operate this mechanism. Millennium Force features 3 trains: one red, one yellow, and one blue. Each car has a capacity of 4 people, and each train carries 9 cars, allowing for a capacity 36 people in 18 rows of 2.
The catch car for Millennium Force's cable lift carries the train up the 310-foot hill at a 45-degree angle in a little over 20 seconds by latching onto the middle of the train. The train then drops 300-feet at an 80 degree angle, reaching a top speed of 93 mph.
It then climbs a 169-foot overbanked turn at 122 degrees. Then the train travels through the first tunnel and over a 182-foot parabolic airtime hill, passing over a lagoon and down onto Millennium Island. While on Millennium Island, the train completes a 105-foot, 360-degree helix, followed by a left overbanked turn and then a small right-hand turn before traveling over another airtime hill to exit the island.
The train then travels over a smaller airtime hill and into another tunnel, right next to the first tunnel from earlier in the ride. A final airtime hill, right next to the queue, is crested. The train finishes the ride by traveling through a 68-foot overbanked turn over the queue and stops at the brake run. Riders exit the train at the exit platform, and the train then returns back to the station.
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