Negative-G - Canada's Wonderland

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Canada's Wonderland, Vaughn, Ontario, Canada

You have enough time to look at the amazing view of Canada's Wonderland all around you.

The Yukon Striker dive roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland, Vaughn, Ontario, Canada

You have the time to notice the lake way beneath you with a little tunnel that the track leads into. If you are lucky you get to see a train on Vortex as it wraps around the track you are riding on. Then...

...click! Going down!

Before you know it Yukon Striker has you plummeting down towards the surface of the lake and beneath it.

Moving off of the ride experience for a second it has been pretty much common knowledge that Cedar Fair was planning a B&M dive coaster Wonderland years before the ride was announced last August. In order to build the tunnel and have Vortex wrapped around Yukon Striker construction began back in the winter of 2017-2018. Last year before the announcement this tunnel had been built with track installed as they had to get permits to temporarily divert the water to build the footers and tunnel. Throughout the 2018 season Wonderland had coaster track for their 2019 addition on site and up but up until the announcement with tarps covering the tunnel when requests were made on what they were doing the park just responded with "there's nothing to see here".

Open secret or not it didn't dampen the excitement about Yukon Striker. I sweat I had about eighty non enthusiast friends on social media send me renderings of Yukon Striker's first drop asking if I was crazy enough to ride it. Yes I am crazy enough to ride it and please do not send me coaster pictures that are going viral as chances are I have seen it fifty to a hundred times already.