Kings Dominion Debuts New Hybrid Roller Coaster

WHY IT RATES: Travel agents booking family vacations for clients should consider adding a stop at Kings Dominion to partake in the new Twisted Timbers roller coaster.—Donald Wood, Breaking News Senior Writer.

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The wait is over for guests looking to get their thrill fix on Kings Dominion's newest roller coaster, Twisted Timbers. Set to open to the public on Saturday, March 24, the park's newest coaster features twisting barrel roll drops, dynamic inversions, and gravity-defying weightlessness.

Twisted Timbers is an innovative hybrid coaster that uses the latest technology to combine wood supports with a steel track to give riders an exhilarating experience with maneuvers previously unimaginable on a traditional wooden coaster. The coaster was designed and built by Rocky Mountain Construction of Idaho, a company renowned for reimagining wooden coasters. Other features of the ride include:

—109-foot-tall barrel roll drop

—Over 3,000 feet of track

—Top speed of 54 miles per hour

—Three loops

—Three overbanked turns

—20 airtime moments

Twisted Timbers is located in the Candy Apple Grove section of the park and is themed to an abandoned apple orchard on the edge of town. The story behind the coaster is that an unknown force – supernatural or natural– destroyed the harvest years ago and froze the orchard in time; now the strictly "off-limits" orchard has reopened for tours, with the twisted ride as its highlight.

Kings Dominion opened for its 44th season March 24.

For more information, reach out to your local travel agent.

SOURCE: Kings Dominion press release.