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Website. www .carowinds .com. Carowinds is a 407-acre (165 ha) amusement park primarily located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, the park first opened to the public on March 31, 1973. Carowinds straddles the state line between North and South Carolina, adjacent to Interstate 77, with a ...
Carowinds is a 400-acre park with more than 60 rides and attractions and a 26-acre waterpark. ... 24 fast French appetizers to close out the Olympics. Lighter Side. Lighter Side.
Thunder Road was a wooden roller coaster located at Carowinds amusement park on the border between Fort Mill, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. [ 1] Opened in 1976 and built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, the racing roller coaster cost $1.6 million to construct and featured two identical tracks that paralleled each other.
Greased Lightnin' – closed after the 2002 season. Gulf Coaster – closed in 1980. Invertigo – closed on October 31, 2010, and opened up at Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom as Stinger. Stealth – closed in 2003 and was relocated to Carowinds in 2004 as the Borg: Assimilator, now known as Nighthawk.
August 7, 2024 at 6:00 AM. In its first major investment since the mega-merger of Cedar Fair and Six Flags, Carowinds is adding and improving family-friendly rides. Two new attractions — a ...
Hurler is a wooden roller coaster located at Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina. A second identical installation of the ride was also built at Kings Dominion, and both locations opened to the public in 1994. The Hurler at Kings Dominion was closed following the 2015 season and was renovated by Rocky Mountain Construction, re ...
In 2018, Carowinds was named among Time’s top 10 best amusement parks in the country, with Fury 325 recognized as the hottest ride in the park, the Observer reported at the time.
Nighthawk at RCDB. Nighthawk is a steel flying roller coaster located at Carowinds. Constructed by Vekoma, it is located in the Thunder Road section of the park. The roller coaster originally opened as Stealth at California's Great America on April 1, 2000. In 2003, Paramount Parks decided to relocate the roller coaster to Carowinds.