With a Wild West theme and cars designed like old-fashioned train carriages, Steel Venegance might look charming and cute. It's anything but. This hyper-hybrid roller coaster, with its steel track set atop a wooden structure, rises 205 feet (62m) above the park and has more airtime – when you rise out of your seat – than any other ride (30 seconds). Throw in a series of inversions and ricochets and you've pretty much hit white-knuckle nirvana with this one.

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