The August amusement announcements keep on coming as today Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk announced the addition of Undertow for the 2013 season. The new 5.5 million dollar thrill ride will be Northern California’s only spinning roller coaster. Undertow is manufactured by Maurer Shone of Germany and will stand fifty feet tall.
Undertow will be located in the space currently occupied by the Hurricane roller coaster, a twenty-year old ride which is being retired from the park on September 3rd when it will be carefully disassembled and shipped to Western Playland Amusement Park in New Mexico.
Undertow Stats
- Track length: 1410 ft.
- Height: 50 ft.
- Cars: 4-seater, spinning
- Number of cars: 7
- Capacity: 900 pph
- Base area: 147 x 75 ft.
Embedded below is a short teaser video for the new roller coaster at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
For more information check out the Undertow website.
Well the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk seaside company never disappoints me. The new undertow coaster is exactly the right ride I would’ve installed if I was in charge of the Boardwalk. Several amusement parks have this spinning type roller coaster, which is my favorite, and now, I don’t have to travel so far to ride it. Good job. Along with bigshot and the renewed haunted Castle, the Boardwalk just gets better and better, your Board of Directors have been on the money every time they do something. Too bad California great America can’t follow you, they’re installing a new coaster that was designed in 2008, and is already technically out of date. Keep up the good work, I’ll see you in 2013 to start one of my many many rides on the undertow. Thanks Dave L.