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The Raven

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The Raven is Holiday World's award-winning wooden roller coaster. Featured on CBS's 48 Hours, PBS's Great Old Amusement Parks and The Discovery Channel's Wild Rides, The Raven was voted the nation's #1 Wooden Roller Coaster by the readers of Amusement Today in 2000, '01, '02 and '03. The Raven was also named one of the U.S.'s Top Ten Roller Coasters by Forbes American Heritage magazine.

Features: 120-foot tunnel, 85-foot and 61-foot drops, sharp turn over Lake Rudolph and a double-banked “s” curve at the bottom of second hill.

Size limit
Bench seats have a seat divider; base of each seat is 15 inches across, each seat has an individual seat belt, which encircles a maximum of 62 inches when fully extended (the ends attach in the back corners); there's also an individual lapbar that pulls down and must be latched.

Awards
Consistently voted a Top 10 coaster.


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Ride Facts

  • Type: Wooden terrain coaster
  • Opened: May 6, 1995
  • Vehicles: Two PTC trains, holding 24 passengers each
  • Theme: Named for Edgar Allan Poe’s haunting poem
  • Designer: Custom Coasters, Inc.
  • Track length: 2,800 feet
  • Height: 110 feet, highest to lowest point on the ride
  • Ride time: 90 thrilling seconds
  • Top speed: 50+ mph
  • Ride is through thickly wooded terrain

Tips for your visit

  • Sit in the front seat for the view and in the back seat for the air-time.
  • Lines are shortest in the afternoon.
  • Spooky facts: The name "The Raven" was chosen for our first wooden coaster exactly 145 years to the day following the death of Edgar Allan Poe. The poem "The Raven" was first published in 1845; our coaster by the same name premiered 150 years later, in 1995. Ravens used to thrive in Indiana. The last sighting of ravens nesting in southern Indiana was in 1894. This was exactly 100 years before construction of The Raven roller coaster began in the town of Santa Claus, Indiana.