Kings Dominion: Exploring 50 Years of History

Kings Dominion, an amusement park located in Doswell, Virginia has a history dating back over 50 years.
Conceived as a sister park to Ohio’s Kings Island in 1972 and opening for a limited preview in 1974. The park has amassed a collection of roller coasters, rides and attractions for visitors of all ages.
From its roots in the 1970’s the park has an interesting history. Epic attractions such as The Lost World Mountain, giving way to modern thrills.
Being a park that was keen to innovate and explore new technologies, over its history the park has been home five different launched roller coasters.
Coasters Twisted Timbers, Project 305 and Backlot Stunt Coaster can still be enjoyed, while lost rides Hypersonic XLC, Volcano:The Blast Coaster and King Kobra are no more.
Join us for this nostalgic trip through time to explore the interesting history of Kings Dominion.
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C. H. See Aitch - • Vintage Home Movie - K...
coasterace - • Coasterace Retro Amuse...
Coaster Jeff - • Outer Limits Flight of...
CoasterNick3157 - • Volcano The Blast Coas...
COF Coasters - • Kings Dominion - Backl...
ElToroRyan - • Twisted Timbers Off-Ri...
Jeremyrockjock - • Kings Dominion 1975
KDFanPre91 - • Kings Dominion History...
KDGoldenYears - • Hypersonic XLC on "Ext...
KDGoldenYears - • King Kobra on "America...
KDGoldenYears - • -Kings Dominion - Grizzly
KDGoldenYears - • Kings Dominion - Shock...
KDGoldenYears - • Paramount's Kings Domi...
Kings Dominion - • Intimidator 305 POV in HD
Kings Dominion - • Eiffel Tower Construction
Kings Dominion - • White Water Canyon 198...
Happily Ever Novak - • Kings Dominion Season ...
Looping Lee Theme parks, Roller coasters and more - • Kings Dominion theme p...
Menachem Piekarski - • 2002 videos ricochet p...
NToob - • 1972 Kings Island Cinc...
psyclonesteve - • Anaconda, Kings Domini...
WTVR CBS 6 - • CBS 6 Video Vault - Au...
Reggie Duke - • Paramount's Kings Domi...
Theme Park Documentaries - • Intimidator 305 at Kin...

[@daveblackman816]

Kings dominion used to be very magical. Back in the 90s/early 2000s they had the best collection of coasters. It’s ok now but I hope it goes back to its former glory soon.

[@CoasterConnections]

I totally understand what you are saying. I saw that when researching my next video about lost rides at that park!

[@car_tar3882]

They’ve got two world class coaster and a deep lineup of rides of all sorts. The only major omission is a world class dark ride.

[@cathedraldarkness]

I enjoy your style of video. It doesn’t over stay its welcome and the vintage footage is excellent!

[@CoasterConnections]

Thank you so much. I could make them longer, but don’t want them to be boring.

[@raymondkidwell7135]

These parks like Busch gardens etc get worse every year. A well rounded set of attractions steadily get tore down and replaced with endless extreme coasters. Fastest tallest in the world or whatever extreme. They cater themselves to less than 10% of their customers who want extreme coasters. I like normal coasters like the beast which is the grizzly at kings domain or the racers. I like water slides, log rides, the Eiffel Tower, comedy shows, animals, gardens. It will all eventually be bulldozed and nothing but coasters that are so extreme they aren’t even fun will replace them to cater to the two hundred people that travel the world for these coasters. So I better visit while there’s still some worthwhile rides left.

[@CoasterConnections]

I agree, a theme park needs a well rounded range of attraction for all ages. Some of the ones you mention can be enjoyed by everyone. Not many parks understand this fully and the tallest, fastest, worlds first are always much easy to market. Cedar Fair parks are nowhere near as bad as Six Flags, Kings Island has added family rides the past two years.

[@jrsc01.]

The Film 'Rollercoaster (1977)' was featured and included the park and some of its rides, notably 'Rebel Yell' kzbin.info/www/bejne/sH-TantqjM-ppbc

[@CoasterConnections]

What a great clip. Thanks for sharing!