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The Copperhead Strike Roller Coaster at Carowinds Theme Park, Charlotte North & South Carolina

You are nice and locked in with a lap bar which means that Copperhead Strike is pretty free to shoot you this way and that through its very twisted layout.

The Copperhead Strike roller coaster at Carowinds Theme Park, Charlotte North & South Carolina

This is the second vertical loop that Copperhead Strike will throw at riders.

The Copperhead Strike roller coaster at Carowinds Theme Park, Charlotte North & South Carolina

Outside of the two vertical loops Copperhead Strike has a heart line roll, a corkscrew, and a cutback.

The Copperhead Strike roller coaster at Carowinds Theme Park, Charlotte North & South Carolina

Copperhead Strike with its twisted layout it is kind of hard to remember which loop came after the second one as it has such a tangle of a layout.

The Copperhead Strike roller coaster at Carowinds Theme Park, Charlotte North & South Carolina

Keeping riders guessing as to what comes next with a unpredictable layout is a wonderful psychological tool a coaster designer can draw upon to really mess with their riders.




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