(picture is Flash and me at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey, home to two of my Top Five coasters)5. Kingda Ka – Six Flags Great Adventure, New Jersey. The tallest and fastest coaster on Earth, Kingda Ka fully delivers with a 0-128 mph flat-ground launch in 3.5 seconds followed by a climb straight up a 456 foot (139 m) tower, a 90 degree descent back to 128 mph, and a giant negative g camelback on the way back to the station. At the unload area, everyone is blissfully fried – even the security guards can’t help laughing, so much stoke is in the air.
4. Boulder Dash – Lake Compounce, Connecticut. This brilliant wooden coaster rollicks along a Connecticut hillside with a marvelous track design that provides thrilling drops, crazy high speed turns, and tons of negative-g airtime.
3. The Voyage – Holiday World, Santa Claus, Indiana. This is an absolutely crazy wooden coaster with a huge first drop that leads to an unrelenting series of humps and swirls that all feel perfectly designed, if your head stops spinning and you can think about it.
2. Ride of Steel – Darien Lake, New York. This thrilling steel coaster delivers massive drops, a super high-speed sweep across the surface of a lake, breakneck twirls, and the some of the most precisely executed negative-g moments of any coaster out there.
1. El Toro – Six Flags Great Adventure, New Jersey. This is it. The coaster that combines classic wooden coaster appearance and trains with steel coaster smoothness and power. The ridiculously steep first drop pulls you up into the lap bar like a wild bull gone freakozoidal! And it does not let up until you’re back at the station. This is the most incredible and continual negative-g, butt off-the-seat, coaster on Earth – something like 23 seconds of airtime (could this be?!). End it with a ridiculously mayhemic whirling banked turns section and you've got The Greatest Roller Coaster on Earth, in my book.
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