Top 10 ABANDONED Roller Coasters Left to Rot

Let's take a look at some of the elusive abandoned coasters you definitely can't ride anymore. But then again, saying you can't ride an abandoned coaster anymore is like saying you can't eat spoiled food anymore. Anyways, enjoy!
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I originally posted this last year. However, after receiving a copyright claim on a different video, I had to take this one down since it used footage from the same company that owned the footage in the other video. It wasn't until last year that I learned that local news footage is not fair use. News footage is licensed. I was charged $1,000 to remove the strike and put the video back up. Thankfully, that fee is extremely low compared to other news stations. I remember a station offering me Big Bad Wolf footage for $2,500. So in order to put this video back up, I had to remove all local news footage. I was finally able to get around to it after a busy and stressful few months. With that being said, what's done is done, and I'd rather let everyone enjoy this video again than discuss local news stations and copyright.

[@davidparkinson3470]

for many years I held out that Camelot would re-open but to finally see the news a week ago that demolition had begun , it broke my heart !

[@FannyLerouxTime]

Don't worry too much, Story homes (the land owners) still don't have permission to build the houses they want to. The Camelot buildings haven't been maintained at all, so it is inevitable that they're going to begin to collapse and become a danger to the site staff. I still hold hope that it'll one day be a theme park again, I also hope to win the lottery and fund it myself, alas, the former is more likely lol.

[@optimuslibby]

That was my experience with my local park as well. It was so sad :'(

[@warailawildrunner5300]

@Betty MERRIMAN That's a shame.. I have good memories of going on the tower of terror, the beast and watching the jousting. It used to be a great day out.... it's always a shame when good parks close. I still miss frontierland in morecambe as well. Was cheesy, but fun. Sadly the site is still not really being used for much, and what has been used was for an aldi... Morrisons.

[@ferretman6790]

@@FannyLerouxTime let’s not go to Camelot, tis’a demolished place.

[@arandomperson-3372]

This sad... I really couldn’t imagine my fav park going out No like really tho when the heck will Cedar point go out Also why does auto correct think cedar is cédât TwT

[@capedoneder]

I like how he didn't have creepy music to make it seem creepy.

[@andreacordova4985]

Yeah I’m so glad.😉

[@MforMovesets]

Number fifteeeen...

[@kikibebe6410]

Because it isn't.

[@mds7245]

Sounds like an educational video (and it is) 😁

[@1li6na]

@@kikibebe6410 but most ppl put creepy music to make it seem like it is..

[@SassafrasRoot]

Funny story. So I just so happened to be walking around the Daytona Beach boardwalk a month ago while I was on vacation and later realized that I literally walked past where The Sandblaster sat. I couldn’t even tell that the small patch of grass was a small amusement park until I remembered this video and tried to look it up. Couldn’t find it so I assumed you took it down to update it. Thanks for putting it back up and congrats on 200K!

[@JacobBlanchard04]

Carlosβ same here. I was there in March 2020 and wondered why there was a big patch of grass where a hotel could be built or something like that. I didn’t realize this was there

[@nickrustyson8124]

And fun fact about me, I was on the Sandblaster, it was very janky and I loved it

[@kaitourobin840]

Somehow, I managed to get a photo of it abandoned in December 2018. Even more interesting, it's my only photo of a roller-coaster on my current phone.

[@Megablueforce]

Ironic that a coaster named Cyclone was damaged by a Hurricane.

[@xx-spongebob-xx4596]

Wow

[@grandpapa5868]

BAHAHA FRR

[@Skolg3r77]

😬😬😬

[@ChaosKing__]

There's also a musical called "Ride the Cyclone". The coaster inspired the musical and other elements I'm pretty sure

[@magicaldoggies4409]

How ironic

[@katashworth41]

I only ever went to Camelot a couple of times (it was a lot harder to get to than Blackpool Pleasure Beach) and I’m really sad it’s being pulled down, seeing the rides from the motorway certainly added some interest.

[@ThemeParkCrazy]

For those wondering about my Tornado video, it is still in production. This has been a hectic week for me, and I'm hoping to get it out next week just in time for Christmas or Boxing Day. So until then, here is a video that I've been meaning to put back up for a while.

[@singlerailindustries1763]

We Will Miss Nighmare ✝️

[@singlerailindustries1763]

Keep Going With Your AMAZING Content UwU 😍👍

[@sammylane21]

It's sad and often extremely costly but in order for rides to evolve and be safer errors and accidents do need to happen... Right?

[@Lpb726bw]

2021 or 2020?

[@ThemeParkCrazy]

@@Lpb726bw Next week.

[@Kionee5]

Big Dipper from Geauga Lake, most air time hills. Was bought by a guy for his daughter's birthday, but ended up being to expensive to move. Sad to see rotting on the property.

[@CrubCraft]

Really? Interesting, I never knew that fact!

[@donaldbothe3518]

Too sad, was a 1920s roller coaster

[@madeliner1682]

big oof

[@Partypooperfanmade]

i went to Geagua Lake so much as a kid,so sad.there was talk about trying to reopen before covid

[@Prilla7]

I visited this summer. They were doing a car show, and there was talk of using it regularly as an event venue. I’m not sure if they’ll open up as an amusement park again, but there’s definitely some abandoned rides still there

[@YuriR2]

Here in Brazil we had a record-breaking roller coaster with 8 inversions, it was Monte Makaya in Rio de Janeiro at Terra Encantada park, which was closed in 2010 after a serious accident on another small roller coaster, since then, Monte Makaya it was completely abandoned until 2016, when another Brazilian park purchased it with the promise of renovating it and assembling it again.

[@staringcorgi6475]

It’s a park that relocated as it got too big in it’s old location

[@user-uj2xp7lm6e]

Oh wow, im early, thats werid im normally about 2 years late

[@kimberlyjimenez1374]

Same

[@coasterhockygamingboy9549]

Same

[@ivanmartelchavez3192]

Same

[@englishatheart]

What the crap is "werid"? :-P

[@melanielanphier]

Me too.

[@Jeff-kz5kl]

4:36 What the heck are those cars doing in that parking lot!? Lol.

[@bradygd6431]

Just vibing

[@coasterhockygamingboy9549]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@vampnailz]

😭💀 they boogie

[@shaytrueblueaussie]

🤣🤣

[@jozotheclown30]

They probably found that electrical part 30 years ago, and just never did anything with it since the roller coaster sat for so long

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

On second thought , let's not go to Camelot. 'Tis a silly place

[@CrubCraft]

Too silly of a place

[@MonsterFlame1]

The only abandoned wild mouse I've seen was Muskrat Scrambler at the DEFUNCT Six Flags New Orleans! So sad that the park ended up the way it did after the infamous Hurricane Katrina :(

[@CrubCraft]

Sad times :(. It's still good to know there are 2 roller coasters that were saved from Six Flags New Orleans though!

[@OriginalPineapplesFoster]

Have you seen "Closed For Storm" by Bright Sun Films? It's a very good documentary all about the park's impact on the area (both open and closed). Don't think it's free to watch anywhere but I found the $5 digital rental fee a worthwhile price for such a big project from someone who started out less than a decade ago as a literal kid on KZbin. ✌️🍍

[@electric7487]

9:40 They forgot to hit "Smooth All"

[@SadMarinersFan]

They needed to use the 4M smoothing technique. No point in cutting corners.

[@marcleslac2413]

@Zacheroni mhm

[@marcleslac2413]

@Zacheroni yup

[@jackschissler255]

That one that’s over the water looks awesome. But it would suck if it had to be evacuated.

[@iamsocks]

You should talk about Boblo Island, a park on an in the Detroit River between Canada and the U.S! The island is now half fancy residential, but the other half is still abandoned attractions and rides!

[@alexandritequeen7052]

When I was younger, myself and my family went to visit the Camelot themepark every St George's day. It wasn't as good as Blackpool Pleasure beach but it was still a wonderful place to go and I do genuinely miss it. Some years ago I saw a youtube video of some people sneak into abandoned Camelot, smashing stuff up and breaking it. You may say "So what? It's abandoned," but for me it's sad to see it treated with such disrespect from bored idiots.

[@GingerSnape46]

I used to live in Canton, Ohio, and a long time ago, they had an amusment park called Meyers Lake. I remember as a child going past there, and seeing the hill of the coaster in the woods. Later, it became lakefront properties.

[@JazMegan]

I used to love camelot! We went quite a number of times when we would be going past on the motorway, it was so so good for families💔

[@kathrynlanford9647]

At Dollywood in Tennessee, there was this water ride call mountain slide winder. It was so much fun! It had foam rafts that you sat in single file. The problem was it was hidden, you had to take a probably more than 5 minute walk up the mountain completely surrounded by trees you couldn’t even see the rest of the park. In I think 2015 it closed and never opened back. You could see the loading shed ride while on the wild eagle but in 2021 they completely removed the old ride. It was such a good ride and the walk was a nice quiet break from the busy park.

[@steffanylee_]

It’s been 16 years since I last rode the Cyclone. I still have whiplash. 😂 Miss that little park!

[@Tripp-Life]

The boardwalk is actually opened back up now, along with a new slingshot. I actually went on the sandblaster and it was one of the funnest coasters I’ve ever been on to this day. R.I.P sandblaster.

[@JordanNevaDidThatMove]

i feel sad for those coasters

[@Secretsofsociety]

Seems that one park knew it would eventually be abandoned when they named it Ghost Town

[@DarkArtistKaiser]

2:01 Ah yes...I remember this ride. I rode it at a fair once. I rode it with my cousin since I was stuck with him and thought "Well he wants to ride it its not so bad." Then as the ride started to rise up, several things appeared in my mind. "Hey, do you wonder how well maintained this ride is?" >Gets higher and higher... "Hey, do you realize how high this ride is going?" >Gets to the top "Hey, did you just realize that *the only thing keeping you from death right now is if the poorly paid, undertrained people did their fucking job right?* Suffice to say, I was holding on to dear life terrified with every jerked turn.

[@AmusementInsider]

Greedy news stations hurting the small creators. :( Happy Christmas and new year!

[@Hawk_City]

Orphan rocker Abandoned since... Coincidence? I think not

[@selenajarv8763]

Abandoned since birth

[@StamfordBridge]

Son of Beast was abandoned by its father.

[@Shockzone1495]

Because the son wouldn't stop murdering people.

[@canyounotmydude9155]

*insert obvious father abandoning joke here*

[@jonathanadams7219]

Son of Beast's Father (To Kings Island): Because Of You who had to Fire The RCCA!

[@missmoxie9188]

Poor baby

[@nevaehhamilton3493]

The beast went to buy some milk.

[@nctrnm]

Thank you for featuring my music 💛🤙🏽

[@crocen11]

I've never heard the word 'defunct' used so frequently

[@briansanchez5758]

Hearing that intro reminded me of a toy car commerical back in the 80's. Keep up the great content.

[@arandomperson-3372]

“Disaster Struck” Merch needed

[@alanablumberg1558]

Woah my family would take trips near Daytona and we would pass that coaster all the time. I always wanted to ride it so I was sad when it was suddenly gone the next time we came down. A part of me feels satisfied knowing what happened but now I’m glad I never rode it lol. Now there’s two other rides that you can buy tickets for to ride but those aren’t really my style. Thanks for the knowledge!

[@TheChildishTycoon]

Love that carpetbagger shout out for that walkthrough of the cliff hanger coaster! 🤣👍

[@crispymojo8751]

As a kid I was riding the Spreeblitz (No. 6) many times with my dad by my side. Good memories. 💙

[@redfailhawk]

Probably posted this on the old one but I have ridden the one in Maggie Valley (ghost town). Could never name it until I found a video about it maybe a year ago. I remember it from maybe 99, meaning I was barely old enough to ride it, and it stuck with me. There were if I remember correctly two coasters: the one shown and a smaller kiddie coaster.

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

There is something seriously creepy about abandoned roller coasters, especially that one over water.

[@coreyw5981]

Toboggan looks sweet! I love those ones through the woods and hills

[@suicidalmaniac0843]

Can I just say your videos are really good. I was up all night watching your videos

[@nicoladale1668]

Thank you for the reupload and for the updates.

[@onekiddj]

That orphan rocker still sits there in the Blue Mountains, about 90mins west of Sydney. I was up there last Winter, it's breath taking when the mist sets in & the white track disappears over the edge of the mountain into the abyss...

[@randyporter3491]

I'll say it again.. GREAT channel, with top quality content !

[@joshuahampton4714]

Love the videos Peter and u and you're family have a good Christmas and new year

[@deefrash9806]

Thanks for your in depth descriptions of these coasters. I knew about some, but not all and I'm 51 and would climb an abandoned coaster if I ever got the chance to do so.

[@maxhagenauer24]

Great job on reaching 200k subs, keep up the great work!

[@littlegem201124]

kind traeae

[@scemer7061]

CONGRATS HITTING 200K !!!

[@johnnymacchicago]

Congratulations on 200,000 subscribers!

[@jettramirez8967]

I can’t stop laughing at the “Orphan Rocker” 🤣🤣

[@pigeonbusiness]

Very funny to me that they left the coaster standing to save on costs, but ended up having to hire security team to keep people off of it, probably costing them more than if they just would have torn the stupid thing down.

[@euroaviation0013]

Congratulations on 200k subscribers, you really deserved it 😀😀.

[@niffry]

I'm not sure if anyone else in the comments have mentioned this, but Jetline (the Knightmare copy you mentioned at the end of the video) unfortunately experienced a fatal accident/derailment on June 25th of this year. Ever since then it has been closed so that the accident comission can do a proper investigation. Hard to say when (or if) it'll re-open, kinda depends on the result of the investigation I guess. Until then the closest thing we have to Knightmare is Lisebergsbanan at Liseberg (Gothenburg, also Sweden), which is, although not the exact same due to it having a custom layout- a great coaster of the same model as the other two. I will however say that pre-accident Jetline really was an amazing coaster with a very special place in my heart, and if it does re-open (with the appropriate adjustments to prevent anything similar from ever happening in the future) I would highly recommended it.

[@Lloyd00]

Congrats on 200k!!

[@Joypyf]

I always think it’s funny when enthusiasts post similar videos back to back like this and Great American Coasters 😂😂 I know scripts take awhile so it’s just funny when it happens!

[@g.e131]

Omg! When I was 7 years old, I went on the Red Devil! It was scary especially being that young lol. So sad to know it's left to rot away... I remember Ghost Town.

[@carter3012]

I think in 2017 or 2018 I went to Daytona Beach and saw the Sand Blaster but we never went on. I had no idea it was shut or that there was an accident :o

[@gofast3209]

Old video but love your abandoned or removed vids!!

[@coastercriticscreations9481]

Congrats on 200k subs!

[@Edward256]

When you mentioned that Knightmare's creator also made Olympia Looping, and noticing a familiar (compact) layout in the track, I thought of Jet Line. One thing I'll say about most compact layouts is that the banking and curves can be pretty sharp, as if it was built in RCT with its short banking pieces and pre-determined turnes.

[@kmart1396]

This makes me think of the lonely rotting coaster that was out by my sister's college that I'd see when we visited her. I'm pretty sure they tore down the last lonely standing coaster in 2012. The park was Lincoln Park that ran from 1894 - Dec. 3rd 1987 in the Dartmouth, MA area

[@lfcMoorzey]

I loved Knightmare so much as a young lad. It was finally demolished on my birthday which was sad because after all these years I was still holdingout hope that a UK park would eventually save it.

[@michaeltaylor1603]

Funny story about the Red Devil. It was built on hilly terrain, meaning the crane operator had to reposition himself multiple times for both column erection & track erection. It was said that the track was lifted and moved so much, they nearly wore it out before the 1st ride!

[@kaydincek1]

caught me off guard when you said the one coaster was relocated to delgrossos in tipon, pa. i literally work there😭. in all of my 19 years of living ive never heard of them having another roller coaster besides the one they have now so it mustve been a long time ago.

[@AbeTheBabe6233]

Well done on 200k

[@clairefunnell8481]

Neat list. My preference is fully wooden coasters. I would have loved to ride these coasters. This was a cool video. Thank you.

[@dancingbread7015]

I’m sorry the WHAT rocker?

[@urkelheimer]

Good Lord Argentina. Can you imagine going to this park for 30+ years and they never opened the huge coaster what a dump

[@sebastianvilas]

Political corruption.

[@ThemeParkAvenue]

Man, everybody makes Wild Mouse coasters don’t they? Congrats on 200K subs!

[@james8183]

Nintendo is gonna start making wild mouses

[@PrettyFilthyCreature]

this sounds insane, but I had a dream a few weeks ago about a roller coaster constructed entirely over water that went wrong (I commonly have nightmares about water and rollercoasters lmao) and I woke up thinking a concept was insane and no one would do that. I watched his vid today and saw the one constructed over water and I legitimately got chills down my spine because it's nearly exactly how I dreamed it despite never seeing this coaster before. 😳

[@badgerstatecoasters7725]

Another great reupload and congrats on 200k

[@vevster7806]

NEW THEME PARK CRAZY VIDEO LETS GOOOOO

[@ajmatt574]

I wasn’t expecting to find a roller coaster from my local area mentioned on this list (at 5am to boot!). Very interesting to see what happened (or didn’t happen) to the old Zyklon coaster from Delgrosso’s (which you did pronounce wrong, but no shade on that 😄). Interesting to note, a Crazy Mouse coaster replaced the Zyklon.

[@arandomperson-3372]

7:30 that woman’s face My face at the top of the beast before the drop

[@LOLgosan123]

The last coaster has the same layout as jetline in gröna lund sweden. Awesome coaster :D

[@chumon1992]

I love how so many rides never opened due to "employee fell of it while construction was happening so its too unsafe." How does that have anything to do with the actual safty of the ride?

[@coleheller8311]

You're the man!

[@canes3b92]

I rode Sand Blaster before it derailed and it was a rough ride honestly. Not a surprise for a Pinfari coaster. The workers also pushed the coaster for it to dispatch.

[@theoreticallybelieving6499]

200K! Well earned

[@smartjrchina]

I took many pictures of the abandoned park in Shenzhen- China yesterday No more Ferris wheel or other small rides, the only structures you still can see are the two roller coasters. The one on the water is still complete, the other one has some pets of the tracks missing.

[@MrJackdotw]

I used to go to Camelot when I was a kid and I actually rode Knightmare the year it opened. It's sad but you could tell even then that the park was struggling.

[@Slash766]

6:53 Aww shame. I don’t live in Florida but I take visits all the time to visit my grandparents and I remember seeing this on Daytona beach. I remember my friends pressuring me to ride it but I never did :D

[@pjinnj35]

It’s amazing how old these roller coaster get abandoned. What a amaze me is cyclone in Coney Island, New York. I don’t know how they kept that roller coaster running all these years especially the wonder wheel nearby. It would be cool. If you can put a video on this stuff, it would be cool, if there are any other roller coaster, older than cyclone

[@danielramsey1959]

Was watching some SeaWorld Orlando coaster vids recently and I wasn't thrilled to see rusty tracks on their coasters.

[@627jace627]

Lightning Rod has been basically defunct since its inception.

[@eier5472]

What happens to Spreepark is just really sad, the coasters are to be dismantled and it's turned into a boring recreation area which will only retain the ferris wheel. That leaves the people of Berlin and Brandenburg with any amusement park being 200 miles or more away. The nearest are Spreepark at the Baltic Sea coast, Belantis in Leipzig or Energylandia in Poland

[@HK-gm8pe]

yep, I have visited Gröna lund, jetline is one of my favorite coasters in there, its very smooth ride

[@whimsicalclouds]

I'm really gonna miss seeing Knightmare on the horizon whilst traveling 😞

[@jstarASMR3103]

I LOVE UR VIDEOS

[@VisionTheFox]

first one in my country?! WOW!! :D also your spanish its so good! hahaha!

[@jamielauro2623]

Cool video I love abandoned things

[@Agegamingchannel]

Suggestion: top 10 rollercoasters with the most inversions

[@dukemexplorer481]

When the one was at del grosso/blands park at the time it was called Zyklon , was on the coaster several times, liked it then

[@littlepunkxdlol6081]

"Extremely dangerous", hmmmmmmm

[@vivid.worker]

youre goated for sure bro!!!

[@elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214]

I remember this.

[@Zombie9Slayer]

We used to have a Wild Mouse ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in the UK, it opened in 1958 but closed in 2017, I remember riding it for the first time in 2012 and I grazed my arm on it

[@Ill06Taco]

Was waiting to see Desperado on this list

[@arandomperson-3372]

9:35 I WANTED TO RIDE THATTT 9:40 EWEWEWEW GET IT AWAY AHHHH

[@Badgertailwarrior]

Florida native here that only lives forties minutes from the Daytona boardwalk-- The sandblaster news was kind of wild to hear two years back cause I've been on the rollercoaster a few times whenever my family decided to take a trip up there. Two years ago, my family went to stay at a nearby hotel for my mother's birthday and I was talking about wanting to go down to the boardwalk to play some games and ride some stuff. And then a week before we were going to leave, we saw that the Sandblaster had derailed. Having been on that coaster before, it's always been a wee bit sketchy (of course I found it fun as a little kid but I think it's just because I was little lol) but never figured something like this happened. It's brings back a few memories or so, so I'm glad the coaster was mentioned here, even if it really wasn't abandoned as long as the other rides on this list

[@ladymikochan]

Hey have you ever done a top travelling/showman coaster list? You should if you havent! I missed the fairs this year.

[@MeerkatJones161]

I feel like I’ve seen the roller coaster that was built fully over water before, but that might have just been in a separate video. Some weird Deja Vu, man

[@cassandrawoodson1]

I got to ride the Red Devil at Ghost Town in the mid 90s! It was my first upside down rollercoaster! I thought I was SOO cool! lol.