Skull Mountain (Six Flags Great Adventure)

Roller coaster in the United States

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Skull Mountain

Six Flags Great Adventure
Location	Jackson, New Jersey, USA
Coordinates	40°08′05″N 74°26′32″W / 40.134812°N 74.442233°W / 40.134812; -74.442233
Section	Adventure Alley
Status	Operating since June 3, 1996
Cost	$5,000,000^[1]
Rider height	Minimum: 44 inch Min. unaccompanied: 48 inch Maximum: 77 inch

Statistics

Manufacturer

Product

Indoor / Family Roller Coaster

Type

Steel - Enclosed

Riders per train

28

Propulsion

2 Tire propelled lifts

Height

40.5 feet

Drop

37 feet

Top speed

33 mph

Length

1377 feet

Inversions

0

Duration

1:30

Skull Mountain is a steel enclosed roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, USA. It was built by Intamin and opened on June 3, 1996.^[2]

History

Skull Mountain opened on June 3, 1996.

In August 2016, Six Flags announced that Skull Mountain would receive a virtual reality upgrade for Fright Fest. The ride would show a film called Rage of the Gargoyles and it was being billed as "the world's first fully immersive gaming experience".^[3]

The ride's facade was modified in the summer of 2024 when the oversized skull's jaw was removed.^[4]

Design

Elements
Tire propelled lift Tire propelled lift Helix Twisted hill Helix

Color scheme

Black track and supports.

Trains

3 trains with 7 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows, for a total of 28 riders per train.

References

↑ "Six Flags parks".
↑ "Skull Mountain". GreatAdventureHistory.
↑ "Six Flags coaster to use virtual reality to plunge riders into gargoyles game".
↑ "[Skull Mountain] loses its jaw at [Six Flags Great Adventure]". Reddit. msuts. 2024-07-28. Retrieved 2024-07-29.

External links

Skull Mountain on the Roller Coaster DataBase.

Skull Mountain on Coaster-Count.
Skull Mountain on sixflags.com.

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Former

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Attractions

African Rivers Air Safari Antique Cars Asian Rivers Bugs Bunny Barnstormers Calypso Centrifuge "G" Force Chaos Condor Cyborg Cyber Spin Daffy Duck's Deep Sea Diver Daffy's Duccaneer Dare Devil Dive Dream Street Dazzler El Diablo El Sombrero Eruption Evolution Fender Bender Flying Wave Grand Prix Jumpin' Jack Flash Marvin the Martian Space Chase Matterhorn Monkey Around Monster Spin Movietown Water Effect Musik Express North American Rivers Parachute Training Center: Edwards AFB Jump Tower Pendulum Pepe LePew's Pleasure Cruise Phileas Fogg's Balloon Ride Pirate's Flight Riptide Rodeo Stampede Rodeo Switchback Royal Elephants Safari Tours Schwabinchen Six Flags Great Adventure Railroad Sky Pilot Skyway Space Shuttle Spin Meister Spinnaker Stuntman's Freefall Super Sidewinder Swiss Bob Taz Twister Time Warp Traffic Jam Twister Wild Rider Wile E. Coyote Speedtrap Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom

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