Vertical drop track

A vertical drop track is a section of track which allows a horizontal train to drop with it vertically. It was first used on Thirteen, a family roller coaster from Intamin.

Roller coasters

This is a list of roller coasters which have a vertical drop track, in order of opening date.

Name	Park	Country	Manufacturer	Drop distance	Opened
Thirteen	Alton Towers	UK	Intamin	16.4 feet	March 20, 2010
Polar X-plorer	Legoland Billund	Denmark	Zierer	16.4 feet	April 29, 2012
Verbolten	Busch Gardens Williamsburg	USA	Zierer	18 feet	May 18, 2012
Wonder Mountain's Guardian	Canada's Wonderland	Canada	ART Engineering	30 feet	May 24, 2014
Inferno	Cinecittà World	Italy	Intamin	Unknown	July 24, 2014
Phoenix Adventure	Nanning Wanda Theme Park	China	Golden Horse	Unknown	2017
Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure	Universal's Islands of Adventure	USA	Intamin	17 feet	June 13, 2019
Objectif Mars	Futuroscope	France	Intamin	Unknown	June 13, 2020
Namazu	Vulcania	France	Intamin	Unknown	July 10, 2021

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Inverting	Banana roll Barrel roll downdrop Batwing Bowtie Butterfly Cobra loop Cobra roll Corkscrew Cutback Demonic knot Dive drop Dive loop Diving turn Dog tongue Double inverting dive loop Double inverting stall Drachen fire dive drop Finnish loop Fly to lie / Lie to fly Flying snake dive Heartline roll Immelmann Inclined dive loop Inclined loop In-line twist Interlocking corkscrews Interlocking loops Lagoon roll Negative-g stall loop Norwegian loop Over-banked inversion Pretzel knot Pretzel loop Raven turn Reverse cobra roll Reverse sidewinder Roll out Roll over Rollover camelback Saxophone Scorpion tail Sea serpent Sidewinder SkyLoop Step-up under flip Tongue Top-Gun stall Twisted horseshoe roll Twisted in-line rollback Vertical loop Wraparound corkscrew Zero-g roll Zero-g stall Zero-g winder
Non-inverting	Dark/Show section Double down Hairpin dive Hairpin turn Hammerhead turn Helix High five Hill Horseshoe Jr. Scorpion tail Kickflip Non inverting cobra roll Non inverting loop Octopus arm Outward banked airtime hill Over-banked curve Over-banked pretzel knot Pretzel curve Splashdown Splash effect Splash track Stengel dive Switch track Tilt section Trick track Triple dip Tunnel Turntable Twisted dive Twisted top hat Vertical drop track Vertical rollback Vertical spiral Wagon wheel Water brakes Wave turn Windcatcher tower
Variable	Jr. Immelmann Top hat