Tools: QGIS (mapping), Microsoft Excel (data processing)
Notes: This map depicts the tallest rollercoaster in each US state. Mountain coasters were not included in this map. Only rollercoasters that were still in operation or were slated to be open during the 2025 season are depicted on this map. Standing But Not Operating (SBNO) Rollercoasters like Superman: Escape from Krypton are not depicted on this map. Carowinds is located on the border of North Carolina and South Carolina and has rollercoasters located in each state. Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia are not depicted as they do not have any rollercoasters. This is an update to one of the first maps I shared here on Reddit. With the recent closures of some of the tallest coasters in the US, I figured this map was due for a revisit! I’ve learned a lot since I first started when it comes to map-making. I hope that comes through in this map. As always, I’m open to any questions, comments or constructive feedback so if you have it, feel free to share! I try to respond as fast as I can! I hope you get something out of this map whether you are an enthusiast (thoosie?), a fan of maps/data, or just a casual Redditor! Thanks for the support from the community and be kind to each other in the comments 🙂
~Malcolm
West Virginia hanging in there.
Nebraska’s is 12 feet?!
That’s like riding a rug down a flight of stairs.
In case anyone’s wondering, the tallest coaster in Canada is the Leviathan in Canada’s Wonderland, at a height of 306ft.
For the Virginia heads: Pantherian is apparently just the renamed Intimidator 305
I thought we had a new coaster 🙁
The name for WV is wrong, Camden park’s rollercoaster is called the Big Dipper, the Slingshot is a flat ride.
Top Thrill conversion to meters is wrong (or missing a 1?)
I feel like the 80ft and 15ft coasters should be in different categories. One is a small coaster, the other is good-ol-boys riding a shopping card off their roof.
There are no roller coasters currently in Hawaii, but it’s still kind of sad to leave them completely off the map.
I mean the road to Hana is a roller coaster. Kinda.
Not seeing Kingda Ka here for NJ really hurts 🙁
Kind of surprising that Florida doesn’t have any gigas, considering how many parks they have there.
Isn’t the Big Apple on top of New York New York?
Ohio’s second tallest, Orion at King’s Island in Cincinnati, is 287 get tall… Enough to put Ohio in the highest category on this chart. Cleveland (home of Cedar Point) and Cincinnati are only about 4 hours apart. If you want to do a theme park weekend and save some money, skip Disney and spend a day each in Cleveland and Cincy. Kings Island is less than $50 a day for one day passes and has a ton of fantastic rides. Cedar point as well.
The Big Apple’s lift hill is only 180′ and is built on a building. The High Roller was 1,070 feet but was never considered the tallest roller coaster.
Am I missing something in how the Big Apple’s height is calculated?
Screw Hawaii I guess
Fury 325 100% is in both states. SC tallest is fury in my opinion.
Thunder Striker confused me because I only knew it as Intimidator before the name change. Plus, Carowinds is on the border of the two states and the coasters are in the same park.
In Montana and Wyoming the rollercoaster is a drive down the mountain pass in a 1978 Ford F150 that will probably stay together the whole way down the mountain
What sucks is that the Desperado (in Primm, NV) is still closed, otherwise it would have been the tallest in the state.
Fuck this is how I learned Kingda Ka got demolished at Six Flags Great Adventure. Big sadge.
List is a bit dated. Dollywood now has wild eagle at 210 ft (2012) which is higher than the tn tornado at 163 ft.
*This* is what Ohio wins at? I knew it would be something. 🤷🏻♂️
Do water coasters count? Delaware has one in Rehoboth at Jungle Jim’s.
R.I.P. to my childhood roller coaster (called simply “Roller Coaster”) at Joyland in Wichita, Kansas. It was a wooden roller coaster built in 1949 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company and designed by Herbert Paul Schmeck. Originally it had a 2,600 ft (790 m) track span, 80 ft (24 m) drop and 50 mph (80 km/h) top speed. It was the last wooden coaster in North America that used original vintage rolling stock with fixed lap bars. It was renamed “The Nightmare” in 2006 until it was extensively damaged in a windstorm in early April 2015 and permanently dismantled.
To Kansas, Wyoming, Montana… I’m sorry 🙁
For Louisiana: If being open matters, Blue Bayou did not open this summer and may not ever reopen.
Big Dipper at Camden Park is the tallest in West Virginia at 50ft. That ride’s old and looks run down, but the drop is crazy!
Can you elaborate on how Lightning Rod at Dollywood was determined to be 163ft? The top of the lift hill is 206ft from its base and the drop is 165ft…but this map isn’t base on drops, otherwise Goliath at Magic Mountain would be 255ft, for example.
Feels bad posting this right after kingda ka is taken down
Great map! A few things I noticed:
Kansas does have several kiddie coasters, for example https://rcdb.com/9273.htm
Mississippi is labeled incorrectly; Rolling Thunder is at Paradise Pier Fun Park.
Dixie Landing in Louisiana is not open this year, and Ragin Cajun is SBNO. I believe the current tallest in the state is Lady Bug: https://rcdb.com/7655.htm
The tallest coaster in Nebraska is likely Tim’s Runaway Grain Wagon ( https://rcdb.com/22064.htm). It would be 13 feet tall, as it’s the same model (a Zamperla family model 92m Rev A) as what you have listed as the tallest in South Dakota.
Kentucky would be a tie between Wind Chaser and Lightning Run, both of which are listed at 100 feet.
West Virginia’s tallest coaster is Big Dipper at Camden Park. While the height is not listed on RCDB, it is definitely taller than Slingshot.
The PNW is so disappointing ngl. Having grown up in the Midwest, an annual Cedar Point visit might be the only thing I miss about Ohio.
I have way more respect for Wild Thing now!
South Dakota’s doesn’t seem that great.
Mississippi finally not last in something…barely.
I love that SC and NC share the same park (Carowinds), but not the same rollercoaster.
The Desperado is taller than Big Apple Coaster (a few feet by height, more by drop when it goes underground) in Nevada, but I guess it’s not on here because they haven’t reopened it since COVID-19. They’ve been talking about doing so for about two years now. I remember going on it years ago. It was a surprisingly fun coaster.
Kinda cool how the same park gets 2 rides in this graphic. Carowinds is super underrated.
Kansas had the tallest water slide for a bit….chopped a kids head off so it was dismantled.
Aint no way the Tennessee Tornado is taller than the Wild Eagle at Dollywood
Edit: Wikipedia confirms the height of the Tornado at 163 ft and has Wild Eagle at 210ft
I’m no roller coaster pro, but Goliath at SFMM is such a fun roller coaster.
I’ve ridden four of these, cool!
Doing Top Thrill this summer. Not really looking forward to it.
Shoutout to the Carolinas having an amusement park in both states with a line down the middle
![[OC] Tallest Rollercoaster in Each US State as of June 2025](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/r73smlqc3z5f1-1920x1024.png)
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Sources: [The Rollercoaster Database (RCDB)](https://rcdb.com/), [Coasterpedia](https://coasterpedia.net/wiki/Coasterpedia_The_Roller_Coaster_Wiki), Wikipedia
Tools: QGIS (mapping), Microsoft Excel (data processing)
Notes: This map depicts the tallest rollercoaster in each US state. Mountain coasters were not included in this map. Only rollercoasters that were still in operation or were slated to be open during the 2025 season are depicted on this map. Standing But Not Operating (SBNO) Rollercoasters like Superman: Escape from Krypton are not depicted on this map. Carowinds is located on the border of North Carolina and South Carolina and has rollercoasters located in each state. Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia are not depicted as they do not have any rollercoasters. This is an update to one of the first maps I shared here on Reddit. With the recent closures of some of the tallest coasters in the US, I figured this map was due for a revisit! I’ve learned a lot since I first started when it comes to map-making. I hope that comes through in this map. As always, I’m open to any questions, comments or constructive feedback so if you have it, feel free to share! I try to respond as fast as I can! I hope you get something out of this map whether you are an enthusiast (thoosie?), a fan of maps/data, or just a casual Redditor! Thanks for the support from the community and be kind to each other in the comments 🙂
~Malcolm
West Virginia hanging in there.
Nebraska’s is 12 feet?!
That’s like riding a rug down a flight of stairs.
In case anyone’s wondering, the tallest coaster in Canada is the Leviathan in Canada’s Wonderland, at a height of 306ft.
For the Virginia heads: Pantherian is apparently just the renamed Intimidator 305
I thought we had a new coaster 🙁
The name for WV is wrong, Camden park’s rollercoaster is called the Big Dipper, the Slingshot is a flat ride.
Top Thrill conversion to meters is wrong (or missing a 1?)
I feel like the 80ft and 15ft coasters should be in different categories. One is a small coaster, the other is good-ol-boys riding a shopping card off their roof.
There are no roller coasters currently in Hawaii, but it’s still kind of sad to leave them completely off the map.
I mean the road to Hana is a roller coaster. Kinda.
Not seeing Kingda Ka here for NJ really hurts 🙁
Kind of surprising that Florida doesn’t have any gigas, considering how many parks they have there.
Isn’t the Big Apple on top of New York New York?
Ohio’s second tallest, Orion at King’s Island in Cincinnati, is 287 get tall… Enough to put Ohio in the highest category on this chart. Cleveland (home of Cedar Point) and Cincinnati are only about 4 hours apart. If you want to do a theme park weekend and save some money, skip Disney and spend a day each in Cleveland and Cincy. Kings Island is less than $50 a day for one day passes and has a ton of fantastic rides. Cedar point as well.
The Big Apple’s lift hill is only 180′ and is built on a building. The High Roller was 1,070 feet but was never considered the tallest roller coaster.
Am I missing something in how the Big Apple’s height is calculated?
Screw Hawaii I guess
Fury 325 100% is in both states. SC tallest is fury in my opinion.
https://preview.redd.it/y5482um3gz5f1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88a95e231cc354cbdc2714f66231ac75931915a3
Thunder Striker confused me because I only knew it as Intimidator before the name change. Plus, Carowinds is on the border of the two states and the coasters are in the same park.
In Montana and Wyoming the rollercoaster is a drive down the mountain pass in a 1978 Ford F150 that will probably stay together the whole way down the mountain
What sucks is that the Desperado (in Primm, NV) is still closed, otherwise it would have been the tallest in the state.
Fuck this is how I learned Kingda Ka got demolished at Six Flags Great Adventure. Big sadge.
List is a bit dated. Dollywood now has wild eagle at 210 ft (2012) which is higher than the tn tornado at 163 ft.
*This* is what Ohio wins at? I knew it would be something. 🤷🏻♂️
Do water coasters count? Delaware has one in Rehoboth at Jungle Jim’s.
R.I.P. to my childhood roller coaster (called simply “Roller Coaster”) at Joyland in Wichita, Kansas. It was a wooden roller coaster built in 1949 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company and designed by Herbert Paul Schmeck. Originally it had a 2,600 ft (790 m) track span, 80 ft (24 m) drop and 50 mph (80 km/h) top speed. It was the last wooden coaster in North America that used original vintage rolling stock with fixed lap bars. It was renamed “The Nightmare” in 2006 until it was extensively damaged in a windstorm in early April 2015 and permanently dismantled.
To Kansas, Wyoming, Montana… I’m sorry 🙁
For Louisiana: If being open matters, Blue Bayou did not open this summer and may not ever reopen.
Big Dipper at Camden Park is the tallest in West Virginia at 50ft. That ride’s old and looks run down, but the drop is crazy!
Can you elaborate on how Lightning Rod at Dollywood was determined to be 163ft? The top of the lift hill is 206ft from its base and the drop is 165ft…but this map isn’t base on drops, otherwise Goliath at Magic Mountain would be 255ft, for example.
Feels bad posting this right after kingda ka is taken down
Great map! A few things I noticed:
Kansas does have several kiddie coasters, for example https://rcdb.com/9273.htm
Mississippi is labeled incorrectly; Rolling Thunder is at Paradise Pier Fun Park.
Dixie Landing in Louisiana is not open this year, and Ragin Cajun is SBNO. I believe the current tallest in the state is Lady Bug: https://rcdb.com/7655.htm
The tallest coaster in Nebraska is likely Tim’s Runaway Grain Wagon ( https://rcdb.com/22064.htm). It would be 13 feet tall, as it’s the same model (a Zamperla family model 92m Rev A) as what you have listed as the tallest in South Dakota.
Kentucky would be a tie between Wind Chaser and Lightning Run, both of which are listed at 100 feet.
West Virginia’s tallest coaster is Big Dipper at Camden Park. While the height is not listed on RCDB, it is definitely taller than Slingshot.
The PNW is so disappointing ngl. Having grown up in the Midwest, an annual Cedar Point visit might be the only thing I miss about Ohio.
I have way more respect for Wild Thing now!
South Dakota’s doesn’t seem that great.
Mississippi finally not last in something…barely.
I love that SC and NC share the same park (Carowinds), but not the same rollercoaster.
The Desperado is taller than Big Apple Coaster (a few feet by height, more by drop when it goes underground) in Nevada, but I guess it’s not on here because they haven’t reopened it since COVID-19. They’ve been talking about doing so for about two years now. I remember going on it years ago. It was a surprisingly fun coaster.
Kinda cool how the same park gets 2 rides in this graphic. Carowinds is super underrated.
Kansas had the tallest water slide for a bit….chopped a kids head off so it was dismantled.
Aint no way the Tennessee Tornado is taller than the Wild Eagle at Dollywood
Edit: Wikipedia confirms the height of the Tornado at 163 ft and has Wild Eagle at 210ft
I’m no roller coaster pro, but Goliath at SFMM is such a fun roller coaster.
I’ve ridden four of these, cool!
Doing Top Thrill this summer. Not really looking forward to it.
Shoutout to the Carolinas having an amusement park in both states with a line down the middle
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