When you hear that one of the top wooden roller coasters in the world received Rocky Mountain Construction’s 208 track as part of a refurbishment for the 2025 season, you bet that you want to go and try it out as soon as possible.
I went to Michigan’s Adventure opening weekend on May 25th to see what the park has new going on for the 2025 season and while the park is still waking up from the winter, its 2 wooden roller coaters certainly have come out of this winter fresh and brand new.
Shivering Timbers, the 16th best wooden roller coaster in the world as voted in the 2024 Golden Ticket Awards last year, received brand new RMC 208 steel track in between the first and second camelback hills and it’s definitely a significant improvement. No longer does it have a pretty bad pothole in between those hills, but a super smooth transition from the top of one hill to the other. While I know some are not a fan of these new “pseudo hybrid” transformations that RMC’s 208 and Great Coasters International’s Titan Tracks are doing to wooden roller coasters, it ensure these coasters last for many more years and to help them become smoother in some problematic areas where wooden track might not hold up for long.
The new RMC 208 steel track on the top of the 2nd camelback hill
Shivering Timber is known for its great “hair time” moments
Shivering Timber’s first drop and first camelback hill, with its shiny new RMC 208 track
A surprise for the 2025 season was that Wolverine Wildcat received more Titan Track as well, on the 3rd turnaround heading back to the station. It was one of the first coasters to receive Titan Track back in 2022. The new track not only smoothed out that tight banked turn quite well, it’s now picking up more speed through the turn, making that last stretch faster and gives crazy laterals in the final turn into the brakes. Between the first drop being Titan Track, the lift hill alongside the length of track between the first and second turnaround using Gravity Group’s vertical pre-cut wooden track, and now the 3rd turnaround being Titan Track, this 1988 Dinn Corporation coaster is running its best in decades!
Wolverine Wildcat, right next to the beautiful Adventure Lake in the center of the park
The Gravity Group Precut Wooden Track logo, branded on the new lift hill Wolverine Wildcat received in 2024
You can just barely make out the new Titan Track on the 3rd turnaround on Wolverine Wildcat while looking up at it from the queue line for Thunderhawk.
The park is still getting things ready for the 2025 season as the Carousel and Scrambler were in pieces, but everything else was running as the weather permitted, which is a very good sign for the park as it heads into its first full season under the new Six Flags. The crowds were pretty low as the water park had decided to hold off its opening because Michigan decided to do another chilly weekend, but didn’t wait long at all for any of the coasters. We shall see what the future holds for one of the smallest parks in the Six Flags chain, but it seems it’s still holding out strong, especially with how its been treating its famous wooden roller coasters.
Thunderhawk, the park’s 2008 relocated Vekoma SLC, is still running quite well and looks pretty good with its new red and brown paint scheme it received a couple years ago.
Do you plan on visiting Michigan’s Adventure in 2025 to ride Shivering Timbers and Wolverine Wildcat with its updated tracks? Let us know in the comments!
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