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Every attraction at Six Flags Great America

All 8 operating attractions, shows, and experiences — with height, intensity, scare factor, and line-skip passes status for each. Sort any column.

  • Attractions8
  • No height limit2
  • Height limits6
  • Lands4
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AttractionLandTypeHeightIntensityScareline-skip passes
Raging BullSouthwest TerritoryRoller coaster54"Intense3/5Line-skip
GoliathYukon TerritoryRoller coaster48"Extreme4/5Line-skip
Batman: The RideYankee HarborRoller coaster54"Intense3/5Line-skip
Superman: Ultimate FlightYankee HarborRoller coaster54"Moderate3/5Line-skip
American EagleYukon TerritoryRoller coaster48"Moderate2/5Standby
WhizzerCounty FairRoller coaster42"Very gentle1/5Standby
Maxx ForceCounty FairRoller coasterAnyExtreme4/5Line-skip
The JokerYukon TerritoryRoller coasterAnyIntense4/5Line-skip

Last verified July 2026

2 attractions

County Fair

The entrance section, where the giant wheel and the fairground theming set the park's original 1976 character.

Whizzer

42"107cm

Roller coaster · 3 min

The 1976 suspended family coaster — a speed-driven glide through the trees and the park's oldest operating coaster.

Whizzer opened with the park in 1976 and has survived every redevelopment wave since — a suspended, lift-driven family coaster whose trains swing gently through a wooded course. It is the rare survivor of its type and the park's best first coaster by a distance.

Tips for Whizzer
  • The perfect midday cooldown ride — trees, breeze, no queue.
  • First-timers: this is the confidence-builder before American Eagle.
  • The lift's speed means the ride starts almost immediately — no long climb, all course.

Maxx Force

Any height

Roller coaster · 1 min · Line-skip

The record launch coaster — zero to nearly 80 mph in under two seconds into the fastest inverted loop anywhere.

Maxx Force is a Premier launched coaster built around one statistic: acceleration. The launch is among the fastest in American parks, and it feeds straight into a huge corkscrew-style inversion that was record-setting for its speed through a loop.

Tips for Maxx Force
  • Head back, brace, commit — the launch gives no countdown worth trusting.
  • Ride early; the launch tolerance fades with the day's fatigue.
  • The front row gets the full force view; the back gets the full force.

Everything in County Fair

1 attraction

Southwest Territory

The canyon-themed back corner where Raging Bull's drop and Viper's loops anchor the park's biggest thrills.

Raging Bull

54"137cm

Roller coaster · 3 min · Line-skip

The 208-foot hyper through the canyon — a twisted first drop, sixty seconds of floating airtime, and the park's best steel ride.

Raging Bull is a B&M hypercoaster themed into the Southwest Territory canyon and has been the park's flagship since 1999. The signature is the first drop's shape: rather than a straight plunge, the train slides off the crest into a banked, twisting descent that mixes falling and turning into one sustained moment.

Tips for Raging Bull
  • Queue after 16:00 — the midday line is the park's longest and the evening window is its shortest.
  • Lap-bar-only restraint makes this the best big coaster at the park for larger riders.
  • Ride in daylight — the canyon setting reads best before any evening overlay dims it.

Full guide to Raging Bull →

Everything in Southwest Territory

2 attractions

Yankee Harbor

The New England harbor section holding Batman, the original invert, and the park's classic midways.

Batman: The Ride

54"137cm

Roller coaster · 2 min · Line-skip

The original — the 1992 B&M invert built here first, ancestor of every Batman clone in the country.

This is the one that started it: the first B&M inverted coaster anywhere, opened at Great America in 1992, and cloned across the Six Flags chain and beyond. Every suspended-looping Batman in America descends from this ride, which makes a lap here a pilgrimage as much as a thrill.

Tips for Batman: The Ride
  • Ride it three times: once for each row band. Front for flight, middle for balance, back for whip.
  • The queue is themed and shaded — a reasonable midday stop.
  • Coaster historians: the plaque-worthy fact is 1992, first of the type, this park.

Superman: Ultimate Flight

54"137cm

Roller coaster · 2½ min · Line-skip

The flying coaster — board seated, fly face-down through a pretzel loop and a course a few feet off the ground.

Great America's Superman is the chain-standard B&M flying coaster: the seats rotate to prone after the lift, and the course runs a couple of feet above the midways through a loop and near-miss turns. The pretzel loop — folding through a vertical loop while lying down — is the highest-force moment.

Tips for Superman: Ultimate Flight
  • Look along the track ahead, not straight down.
  • Ride at the afternoon lull; the slow load makes peak queues worse than the cycle justifies.
  • Glasses need a strap; the harness clamps everything else.

Everything in Yankee Harbor

3 attractions

Yukon Territory

The northwest back section where Goliath's hybrid inversions and American Eagle's racing woodies share the woods.

Goliath

48"122cm

Roller coaster · 2 min · Line-skip

The 2014 Rocky Mountain hybrid — a wooden coaster that inverts twice, drops 85 degrees, and out-forces most steel loopers.

Great America's Goliath is a Rocky Mountain Construction hybrid on a wooden structure, and when it opened in 2014 it set records for the type: the steepest drop on a wooden-structure coaster at 85 degrees, plus two inversions — a zero-g stall and a barrel roll — that wood was never supposed to carry.

Tips for Goliath
  • Ride early afternoon when the Raging Bull crowd is elsewhere — this queue ages better through the day.
  • Back row amplifies everything; ride mid-train first.
  • If anyone in the party expects a gentle classic woodie, recalibrate them in the queue — this is not that.

Full guide to Goliath →

American Eagle

48"122cm

Roller coaster · 2½ min

The 1981 racing wooden coaster — twin red and blue tracks, a 133-foot shared first drop, and a duel when both trains dispatch.

American Eagle is a piece of working 1981 Americana: two full wooden coasters, mirror-imaged, built side by side for racing. The shared lift and first drop remain among the tallest wooden-coaster moments of its era, and when both trains dispatch together the park gets its best free show.

Tips for American Eagle
  • Ask at the station if racing dispatches are running — the duel is the whole point when it happens.
  • Back car for the airtime; the 1981 drops still deliver.
  • Ride early or late; midday the single-track operation can kill the race.

The Joker

Any height

Roller coaster · 1½ min · Line-skip

The 4D freespin — cars that flip uncontrollably on a vertical axis, different every single ride.

The Joker is a S&S 4D freespin coaster: beyond the track's twists, the cars themselves rotate freely, flipping riders head-over-heels at moments physics chooses rather than a designer. Two rides are never the same, which is the entire pitch.

Tips for The Joker
  • Weight distribution changes the spin — heavier loads flip differently. Re-riding is the point.
  • Ride after the big three, not before; it scrambles the inner ear for whatever follows.
  • Ride twice minimum: the free-spin pattern genuinely differs, and the second ride is the informed one.

Everything in Yukon Territory

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