A ride slated to open later this year at Cedar Point, an amusement park in Ohio, will be the tallest, fastest and longest tilt roller coaster in North America.
"Siren's Curse" is inspired by the legend of mysterious creatures in Lake Erie, with sirens luring sailors to their capsizing.
Riders will ascend an old 160-foot-tall Lake Erie shipping crane tower, with ominous music getting louder before reaching a dead stop on a "broken off" section of track. The platform will tilt 90 degrees at the drop, forcing riders to look straight down.
The ride features 2,966 feet of track, with a top speed of 58 mph over the two-minute ride. It includes 13 weightless airtime moments, two 360-degree, zero-gravity barrel rolls and a high-speed “triple-down” element with twisted and overbanked track, Cedar Point officials said.
The new coaster will be located across from the Iron Dragon suspended coaster near Cedar Point's marina and is part of a park expansion.
The amusement park recently released an animation on their YouTube and social media to give riders a taste of what the new roller coaster will be like.
Including Siren's Curse, Cedar Point now has 19 roller coasters.
This story was originally published by Kellen Voss at Scripps News Detroit.
