Fury 325 at Carowinds

Charlotte, North Carolina

Roller coasters at Carowinds

14 open4 retired

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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.

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Coming soon

Nothing announced

No new coaster is listed as being built at Carowinds.

Retired coasters

The 4 that used to run here, newest closure first.

CoasterRanWhat it was
Nighthawk2004 to 20242004 to 2024Steel, you ride face down
Thunder Road1976 to 20151976 to 2015Wooden
Flying Super Saturator2000 to 20082000 to 2008Steel, cars hang below the track
White Lightnin'1977 to 19881977 to 1988Steel

Questions

How many roller coasters does Carowinds have?

14 are operating. 4 more have closed for good.

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

Fury 325 is both: 325 feet tall and 95 mph.

What are the height requirements?

From 48 inches to 54 inches. At 48 inches a rider can ride 4 of the 10 with a published height. Our sources give no height to ride for Kiddy Hawk, Snoopy’s Racing Railway, Wilderness Run and Woodstock Express.

Which coasters go upside down?

5 of the 14: Afterburn (6 times), Copperhead Strike (5 times), Carolina Cyclone (4 times), Flying Cobras (3 times) and Vortex (2 times). The rest never turn you over.

Is a new coaster coming?

Nothing announced. No new coaster is listed as being built at Carowinds.

Closest parks

Straight-line distance from Carowinds, among US parks with five or more coasters.

150 miles westDollywood

Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. 6 coasters. Tallest: Wild Eagle, 210 ft.

230 miles southwestSix Flags Over Georgia

Austell, Georgia. 10 coasters. Tallest: Goliath, 200 ft.

270 miles northeastKings Dominion

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

Similar parks

The coaster line-ups closest to Carowinds's.

Hershey, PennsylvaniaHersheypark

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

  • Coasters13 there, 10 here
  • Over 200 ft2 there, 2 here
  • Go upside down6 there, 5 here
  • Tallest210 ft there, 325 ft here
Mason, OhioKings Island

Closest match on size, giant coasters and tallest coaster.

  • Coasters11 there, 10 here
  • Over 200 ft2 there, 2 here
  • Tallest287 ft there, 325 ft here
  • Go upside down3 there, 5 here
Jackson, New JerseySix Flags Great Adventure

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

  • Coasters11 there, 10 here
  • Go upside down5 there, 5 here
  • Tallest230 ft there, 325 ft here
  • Over 200 ft1 there, 2 here

Sources

Which coasters are open and closed, plus type, year, height, speed, times upside down and intensity: the Airtime Fever coaster dataset (Carowinds, read Thu 10/1/2026). Our sources give no height to ride for Kiddy Hawk, Snoopy’s Racing Railway, Wilderness Run and Woodstock Express. 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: Coasterman1234 (CC BY-SA 3.0), Coasterman1234 at en.wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0), Jeremy Thompson (CC BY 2.0), Jeremy Thompson from Los Angeles, California (CC BY 2.0), Martin Lewison (CC BY-SA 2.0), ZackyWacky (CC BY-SA 4.0). A ride with no usable photo of it shows its name instead.

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