Six Flags America
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
July 19, 2025
One Final Visit
Page Fifteen


The Roar rollercoaster at Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, MD

Roar is Six Flags America's second wooden coaster.  It was built by Great Coasters International back in 1988.

The Roar Rollercoaster at Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, MD

Roar was built before Great Coasters International developed their Millennium Flyer trains so it uses trains built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters.

The Roar rollercoaster at Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, MD

GCI's designs have always been super twisty and it has always seemed that the PTC trains on Roar were being pretty much pushed to the edges of their ability. 

Roar was kind of a pain to get on during our visit as every time we reserved a ride using our Flash Passes it would break down.  It happened three or four times before we finally got lucky enough for a ride later in the day.

Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, MD

Remember when I said there were remnants of old rides all over the park out between Joker's Jinx and The Wild One you can see the remnants of Skull Mountain that operated at the park from 1997 to 2001.  The ride was a log flume from Intamin that had a turntable at the top of one of the drops.  It was completely random whether you went down forwards or in reverse.  Unfortunately from what I heard the flume had lots of bugs wasn't reliable.  This section went over The Wild One where it was left while the rest of the ride was removed.

The Firebird rollercoaster at Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, MD

Firebird was the final coaster to ride during our visit to Six Flags America.



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