Busch Gardens Williamsburg roller coasters with POVs

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Extreme Griffon Steel · Opened 2007 205 fttall71 mphtop speed2xupside down 54 inches to ride Dive coaster, straight-down drop Coaster page

Extreme Alpengeist Steel · Opened 1997 195 fttall67 mphtop speed6xupside down 54 inches to ride Hangs below the track Coaster page

Extreme Pantheon Steel · Opened 2022 178 fttall73 mphtop speed2xupside down 52 inches to ride Drops past vertical, 95° Coaster page

Extreme Apollo's Chariot Steel · Opened 1999 170 fttall73 mphtop speedNeverupside down 52 inches to ride Hyper coaster, over 200 ft Coaster page

Extreme Tempesto Steel · Opened 2015 150 fttall62 mphtop speed1xupside down 54 inches to ride Launched Coaster page

Thrill Loch Ness Monster Steel · Opened 1978 130 fttall60 mphtop speed2xupside down 48 inches to ride Oldest here Coaster page

Thrill Verbolten Steel · Opened 2012 88 fttall53 mphtop speedNeverupside down 48 inches to ride Launched Coaster page

Thrill InvadR Wooden · Opened 2017 60 fttall48 mphtop speedNeverupside down 46 inches to ride Lowest height to ride here Coaster page

Big Bad Wolf: The Wolf’s Revenge Big Bad Wolf: The Wolf’s Revenge Opened 2025 Newest here

Grover's Alpine Express Grover's Alpine Express Opened 2009

DarKoaster DarKoaster Opened 2023

Intensity is our own three-step scale from published figures: extreme is 150 feet or taller, 74 mph or faster or 6 or more inversions; thrill is 100 feet or taller, any inversion, or a height to ride over 42 inches; family is a height to ride of 42 inches or less. A coaster those figures do not place has no label. Height to ride is from the park or, where it publishes none, Wikipedia.

Coming soon

Nothing announced

No new coaster is listed as being built at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

Retired coasters

The 6 that used to run here, newest closure first.

Coaster	Ran	What it was
Big Bad Wolf1984 to 2009	1984 to 2009	Steel, cars hang below the track
Wilde Maus1996 to 2003	1996 to 2003	Steel
Drachen Fire1992 to 1998	1992 to 1998	Steel
Glissade1975 to 1985	1975 to 1985	Steel
Das Kätzchen1976 to 1984	1976 to 1984	Steel
Die Wildkatze1976 to 1983	1976 to 1983	Steel

Questions

How many roller coasters does Busch Gardens Williamsburg have?

11 are operating. 6 more have closed for good.

Which coaster is the tallest, and which is the fastest?

Tallest: Griffon, 205 feet. Fastest: Pantheon, 73 mph.

What are the height requirements?

From 46 inches to 54 inches. At 48 inches a rider can ride 3 of the 8 with a published height. Only Griffon, Alpengeist and Tempesto need 54 inches. Our sources give no height to ride for Big Bad Wolf: The Wolf’s Revenge, Grover's Alpine Express and DarKoaster.

Which coasters go upside down?

5 of the 11: Alpengeist (6 times), Griffon (2 times), Pantheon (2 times), Loch Ness Monster (2 times) and Tempesto (1 times). The rest never turn you over.

Is a new coaster coming?

Nothing announced. No new coaster is listed as being built at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

Closest parks

Straight-line distance from Busch Gardens Williamsburg, among US parks with five or more coasters.

60 miles northwestKings Dominion

Doswell, Virginia. 11 coasters. Tallest: Pantherian, 305 ft.

160 miles northeastMorey's Piers

Wildwood, New Jersey. 5 coasters. Tallest: Sea Serpent, 117 ft.

210 miles northHersheypark

Hershey, Pennsylvania. 13 coasters. Tallest: Candymonium, 210 ft.

Similar parks

The coaster line-ups closest to Busch Gardens Williamsburg's.

Buena Park, CaliforniaKnott's Berry Farm

Closest match on size, tallest coaster and launches.

Coasters8 there, 8 here
Tallest205 ft there, 205 ft here
Launched3 there, 3 here
Go upside down3 there, 5 here

Eureka, MissouriMid America Adventure

Closest match on size, tallest coaster and rides that flip you.

Coasters9 there, 8 here
Tallest218 ft there, 205 ft here
Go upside down4 there, 5 here
Launched1 there, 3 here

Doswell, VirginiaKings Dominion

Closest match on launches, rides that flip you and tallest coaster.

Coasters11 there, 8 here
Launched3 there, 3 here
Go upside down4 there, 5 here
Tallest305 ft there, 205 ft here

Sources

Which coasters are open and closed, plus type, year, height, speed, times upside down and intensity: the Airtime Fever coaster dataset (Busch Gardens Williamsburg, read Thu 10/1/2026). Our sources give no height to ride for Big Bad Wolf: The Wolf’s Revenge, Grover's Alpine Express and DarKoaster. Figures are rounded to the nearest foot and mph.

Closest parks: straight-line distance between park locations from Wikidata (each park's coordinates, or the middle of its coasters' coordinates, read Fri 10/2/2026), rounded to 10 miles, among parks with five or more coasters. Similar parks: counts from the Airtime Fever coaster dataset of the coasters that have a page: height, launches and inversions.

Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Alex234 (CC0), Bmrbarre (CC BY-SA 3.0), City-state (CC BY-SA 3.0), Douglas Whitaker at en.wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0), Jeremy Thompson (CC BY 2.0), myself (User:Piotrus) (CC BY-SA 3.0), Zboy zboy (CC BY-SA 4.0). A ride with no usable photo of it shows its name instead.

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Roller coasters at Busch Gardens Williamsburg