Hurler at Carowinds
Pulled up by a chain 83 ft at the top

Carowinds, Charlotte, North Carolina

Hurler

Live waitPowered by Queue-Times.com

POV
Ride it: back row POV
Back row
What riders love
  • The layout was nice and it had a few good pops of airtime.
  • Sure, it’s rough, but it has some fun airtime pops and you really get a bang for your buck since it’s pretty long
  • It feels like it has a lot of speed going, and that makes it fun.
  • Great old school wooden roller coaster! It's a great beginner coaster for budding thrill seekers.
  • There is little to no wait time and This is honestly fun, i rode it 3 times and my 6 year old cousin loves it too!
  • The first drop is great and you get lots of speed along the ground and lateral forces through the turns with little pops of air here and there.
  • First drop is better with seventh car, with some fun airtime hills.
Hurler Watch Performance Should I ride it? Specifications Reviews Planning History

Watch POVs and more

Hurler - Carowinds - Front Row (4K HD POV) - March 2024

youtube.com › ThemeParkMark

Hurler Back Row 4K On-Ride POV Wooden Roller Coaster Carowinds NC April 2025

youtube.com › Thrill POVs

Hurler POV 5K Most BORING Wooden Coaster? Carowinds, NC

youtube.com › East Coasters

Hurler (4K OFF Ride POV)- Carowinds, Charlotte, NC

youtube.com › Coaster Crusader

Hurler Review, Carowinds Wooden Roller Coaster | Should it be RMCed?

youtube.com › Canobie Coaster

Hurler at Carowinds - What it could be - REVIEW - RREC ep. 50

youtube.com › Mostly Coasters

Hurler Review (Carowinds) Wooden Coaster

youtube.com › Coaster Daddy

Hurler Carowinds On The Turn

youtube.com › Spartanburg Railfan Productions™

Performance

Vs. other coasters at Carowinds

I also got decent airtime on the first few hills and the roughness was tolerable and added some interest to an average layout.

seth w.

Unfortunately, I don’t remember too many details beyond a solid first drop and some nice airtimes - potentially telling that the ride wasn’t that memorable.

Sean Reardon

First drop is better with seventh car, with some fun airtime hills.

Christopher S.

I sat right in the wheel seat at the very back of the train, and got a grand total of 0 airtime moments the entire ride.

Evangelion Martini

This ride doesn’t have much airtime, but it does have some if you ride in the right row.

George A.

It doesn’t hold a candle to its RMC-converted cousin in Charlotte, but the retracked section is butter smooth and the trademark CCI forces make it a pretty intense ride.

Jackie ODoyle

Coming out of that jarring turn, Hurler really shows its age producing a puttering, “running out of gas” sensation as it navigates a final banked turn and last mini hill before the station brakes.

Coaster Critic

I guess when these multiple clones popped up everywhere during the 90’s, we should have expected what we were given: headbanging at its finest!

Gavin

it has stupidly weak forces and does virtually nothing, and that’s what makes it so funny.

SnowyShores

It’s a great beginner coaster for budding thrill seekers.

Toby Stephens

The first drop is great and you get lots of speed along the ground and lateral forces through the turns with little pops of air here and there.

David

It is definitely a fast out and back wooden coaster, it’s a good representation of the quintessential wooden coaster.

Zachary Alexander Goitia

It feels like it has a lot of speed going, and that makes it fun.

Nathan F

There’s a few "airtime" hills, but they’re so shallow and you hit them at such a slow speed that you get absolutely nothing from them.

Evangelion Martini

Two, a trim brake was installed after the first drop sapping the coaster of its airtime and power.

Canobie Coaster

There is little to no wait time and This is honestly fun, i rode it 3 times and my 6 year old cousin loves it too!

Atilla Caspi

Usually has a short line so it’s worth getting on if you’re waiting 15 minutes or less.

Adam Petersen

Unless you visit Carowinds on an insanely busy day, Hurler is usually a near walk-on.

Canobie Coaster
Motion sickness risk

So rough, in fact, that it made me sick to my usually iron stomach.

Birb from not Canada

lots of ouuhhs and oowss from everyone instead of laughing, got off and we were dizzy.

andrea

Should I ride it?

Organize by

Specifications

83 ftHeight
325 Fury 325 232 ThunderStriker 116 FlyingCobras 113 Afterburn 95 CarolinaCyclone 83 Hurler
80 ftFirst drop
320 Fury 325 211 ThunderStriker 125 Afterburn 108 FlyingCobras 80 Hurler 80 CopperheadStrike
50 mphTop speed
Fury 32595 ThunderStriker75 Afterburn62 Hurler50 CopperheadStrike50 Vortex50 095 mph
0Inversions

What riders say

Criticised for

Rough or rattlyOverratedPainful or bruisingSlowed by trimsLittle airtimeWeak layout

I think this ride is a little over hated, the camelbacks had some decent airtime and the drop was kind of fun, but it still is rough and has a pretty boring layout.

Sam Lomasney, Captain Coaster review

Hurler has several elements of a solid wooden roller coaster including a good first drop, a little airtime here and there, and banked turns.

Coaster Critic, published review

However, if you ride in the front of the train after it has been running all day long in the hot sun, this coaster is actually pretty fun.

MapleFlakes, Captain Coaster review

Unfortunately the ride is pretty lacklustre with few forces or out-of-your-seat moments, and is generally pretty boring.

Theme Park James, published review

It’s not even the fact that it’s laughably rough despite the renovations, given it doesn’t provide any pain, it’s just the fact that it’s so boring.

Person McGee, Captain Coaster review

A little rattle but it wasn’t painful at all, kinda basic but definitely not a bad wooden coaster and far from the worst I’ve rode.

anonymous Outcast, Captain Coaster review

Photos

Hurler's first drop at Carowinds. The only requirement of this license is that you give me credit, otherwise the image is free
Coasterman1234 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Hurler in 2023
Jeremy Thompson, CC BY 2.0
Hurler at Carowinds
mliu92 from San Mateo, CC BY-SA 2.0
Hurler at Carowinds
Martin Lewison from The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0
Hurler at Carowinds
Jeremy Thompson from Los Angeles, California, CC BY 2.0
Hurler at Carowinds
Jeremy Thompson from Los Angeles, California, CC BY 2.0
Hurler roller coaster at Paramount's Carowinds
Chris Hagerman, CC BY-SA 3.0
Hurler at Carowinds
mliu92 from San Mateo, CC BY-SA 2.0
Hurler at Carowinds
mliu92 from San Mateo, CC BY-SA 2.0
Hurler at Carowinds
mliu92 from San Mateo, CC BY-SA 2.0
Hurler at Carowinds
mliu92 from San Mateo, CC BY-SA 2.0

11 photographs. Swipe or drag sideways.

Planning your ride

History

1994Opened

Built by International Coasters.

4.1 gStrongest force on riders

Sources

Restraint types: Captain Coaster. History, incidents and awards: Wikipedia. Height requirement: Carowinds. Specifications and status: Coasterpedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Also read: Captain Coaster (converted to feet and mph). Rider sentiment and performance scores: rider reviews on Captain Coaster, coastercritic.com, youtube.com, read and scored by AirtimeFever.

Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Jeremy Thompson from Los Angeles, California (CC BY 2.0), Coasterman1234 at English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0), Jeremy Thompson (CC BY 2.0), mliu92 from San Mateo (CC BY-SA 2.0), Martin Lewison from The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands (CC BY-SA 2.0), Chris Hagerman (CC BY-SA 3.0). Video thumbnails remain the property of their channels and link back to them.

Live wait times: Powered by Queue-Times.com.

What riders love, by theme (themes in the order riders pick them most on Captain Coaster): Carter Eckhart, rider review on Captain Coaster: “An underrated ride with its sneaky airtime and solid…”; Michael M., rider review on Captain Coaster: “The layout was nice and it had a few…”; Jessica Beddingfield, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Sure, it’s rough, but it has some fun airtime…”; Cameron Haines, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I went on this coaster expecting to hate it…”; Nathan F, rider review on Captain Coaster: “It feels like it has a lot of speed…”; Toby Stephens, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Great old school wooden roller coaster! It's a great…”; Atilla Caspi, rider review on Captain Coaster: “There is little to no wait time and This…”; Max S., rider review on Captain Coaster: “Our first ride was in the very back row…”; David, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The first drop is great and you get lots…”; Christopher S., rider review on Captain Coaster: “First drop is better with seventh car, with some…”.

The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: Thrill POVs's back row POV, Hurler Back Row 4K On-Ride POV Wooden Roller Coaster Carowinds NC April 2025 (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.