The total came to $49.27 from Home Depot for the wood and wheels. Stick around after the break to see a .GIF of it in action! We covered a similar backyard roller coaster last year, which featured ...

This was the start of the CoasterDad Project. Excited by the challenge of building a Backyard Roller Coaster, [Will] also thought it would be a fantastic opportunity to teach [Lyle] about physics.

An curved arrow pointing right. In 2001, John Ivers of Bruceville, Indiana, built a makeshift roller coaster in his backyard. He named it Blue Flash. It even has a corkscrew. But the most ...

A highlight from 1916 to 1974 was a wooden roller coaster called the Greyhound, but after attendance dwindled, the condemned coaster was spectacularly exploded in the final scene of the 1980 ...

Its most renowned attraction, the Giant Dipper, welcomed its first guests back on July 4, 1925. The wooden roller coaster is ...

Currently, Playland boasts three roller coasters: the family-friendly Bug Whirled and Kettle Creek Mine Coaster, and the iconic Wooden Roller Coaster. While “Canada’s fastest launch coaster ...