Negative-G - Six Flags America - 2025 - One Last Visit

Six Flags America
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
July 19, 2025
One Final Visit
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Superman: Ride of Steel at Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, MD

What I really like about Superman is that there are several sections of low to the ground straight track where you can just enjoy the speed and power of this ride. There are also two helices taken at top speed that give you serious sustained g forces to show that hyper coasters can be more than just airtime machines.

Superman: Ride of Steel just gives you everything you could ask for, great drop, speed, negative-g's, positive g's, lateral g's and it doesn't let up for the two minutes and ten seconds of ride time. Of all the rides at Six Flags America that I really don't want seen torn up and sold for scrap when the park if finally bites the dust I hope that Six Flags moves this coaster to another park in the chain. I'd say move it to Six Flags St. Louis so it could be near me, but that park needs a new ride and with a hilly terrain it'd be tough to find a site to build it there.

The Wild One at Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, MD

Working our way back out of the dead end that is Gotham City our next stop is to Mardi Gras to take the parks classic Wild One for a ride.

The Wild One rollercoasterl at Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, MD

Dating back to 1917 the Wild One is one of the handful coasters remaining that was designed by John Miller who was the Thomas Edison of the coaster world. During his career building coasters and rides for the amusement park industry he had hundreds of patents to his name that has enabled coasters to go bigger, faster, and to eventually turn riders and coaster track upside down.

The Wild One Rollercoaster at Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, MD

There is a bit more history to this ride as Herbert Schmeck, who would later grow into a fantastic designer on his own and eventually the president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, worked with Miller when he designed The Wild One. Designing and building coasters are not a science, especially back in the early 1900's. It was more of an art form that was passed down from master to pupil. John Miller passed knowledge down to Herbert Schmeck who then passed down knowledge to John Miller who passed knowledge down to those building coasters today.