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Six Flags Great Adventure

Every attraction at Six Flags Great Adventure

All 7 operating attractions, shows, and experiences — with height, intensity, scare factor, and line-skip passes status for each. Sort any column.

  • Attractions7
  • No height limit1
  • Height limits6
  • Lands4
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AttractionLandTypeHeightIntensityScareline-skip passes
El ToroPlaza del CarnavalRoller coaster48"Extreme4/5Line-skip
NitroLakefrontRoller coaster54"Intense3/5Line-skip
Batman: The RideLakefrontRoller coaster54"Intense3/5Line-skip
Superman: Ultimate FlightLakefrontRoller coaster54"Moderate3/5Line-skip
Jersey Devil CoasterPlaza del CarnavalRoller coaster48"Intense3/5Line-skip
The Dark Knight CoasterMovietownRoller coaster48"Moderate3/5Standby
Skull MountainMovietownRoller coasterAnyGentle3/5Standby

Last verified July 2026

No longer operating

Closed, and what replaced it

These come up constantly in searches and in old guidebooks, so we keep them listed rather than quietly deleting them.

AttractionLandWhat happened
Kingda KaMain StreetClosed permanently after the 2024 season and since removed. Kingda Ka was the tallest roller coaster in the world for its entire operating life — 456 feet, launched to 128 mph — and its retirement, announced with the 2024 season's end, was among the most significant ride closures in the industry's modern history. Listed here as closed rather than deleted because visitors still plan around it; any resource describing it as operating is out of date.
Zumanjaro: Drop of DoomMain StreetClosed permanently after the 2024 season with Kingda Ka, whose tower it shared. At 415 feet it was among the tallest drop rides in the world. Removed with the tower; any guide listing it as operating is out of date.

3 attractions

Lakefront

The big-coaster section along the lake, where Nitro's 215-foot drop anchors the park's steel lineup.

Nitro

54"137cm

Roller coaster · 3 min · Line-skip

The 215-foot B&M hypercoaster along the lakefront — giant floater airtime, a 65-degree drop, and the park's best steel riding.

Nitro is Great Adventure's giant: a B&M hypercoaster with a 215-foot lift, a drop toward the lake at speed, and a course of enormous airtime hills and a helix finale through the trees. It is the ride style that made B&M's reputation — huge, smooth, and generous with weightlessness.

Tips for Nitro
  • Queue in the morning's second hour — after El Toro, before the midday swell.
  • The lap-bar-only restraint makes this the park's best big coaster for larger riders.
  • Ride before a meal, not after — the helix finale is the park's longest sustained force.

Full guide to Nitro →

Batman: The Ride

54"137cm

Roller coaster · 2 min · Line-skip

The Northeast's Batman invert — the 1993 B&M suspended looper, still one of the most forceful compact coasters anywhere.

Great Adventure's Batman opened in 1993, early in the invert era, and it remains the archetype: a vertical loop, a zero-g roll, corkscrews and two tight helixes packed into a compact footprint at relentless pace. Thirty years of bigger coasters have not dulled it.

Tips for Batman: The Ride
  • Front row for the invert flight feel; back for the whip.
  • The themed queue is shaded — a reasonable midday stop when the open queues are punishing.
  • The queue's theming commits harder than the ride's footprint suggests — the dark section is short but real.

Superman: Ultimate Flight

54"137cm

Roller coaster · 2½ min · Line-skip

The flying coaster that lays you face-down through a pretzel loop — the park's prone-position thrill between the giants.

Superman: Ultimate Flight is a B&M flying coaster: board seated, rotate to lie face-down after the lift, and fly the course a few feet over the track. The signature pretzel loop folds the train through a vertical loop in the flying position — the highest-force moment at the park outside El Toro's airtime.

Tips for Superman: Ultimate Flight
  • Look ahead along the track, not straight down — the perspective is the ride.
  • The harness clamps calves and shoulders; glasses need a strap.
  • Ride before the midday queue builds; its load cycle is slow.

Everything in Lakefront

2 attractions

Plaza del Carnaval

The Spanish-carnival section that holds El Toro — the reason coaster travelers fly into Newark.

El Toro

48"122cm

Roller coaster · 1½ min · Line-skip

One of the best wooden coasters on earth — a 76-degree drop and the most violent ejector airtime of any woodie built in this century.

El Toro opened in 2006 on the footprint of the park's old Roar woodie and immediately redefined what a wooden coaster could be. Built with Intamin's prefabricated track — engineered beams rather than hand-stacked lumber — it runs glass-smooth where traditional woodies rattle, and its layout spends that smoothness on aggression: a 181-foot, 76-degree first drop and a sequence of hills designed to throw the rider out of the seat.

Tips for El Toro
  • Rope-drop it and re-ride before the queue matures — the first hour is the whole day's leverage.
  • Back car for maximum ejector; front car for the drop view. Both are correct answers.
  • Keep the lap bar where the ride hosts set it — riding it lower does not prevent airtime, it just bruises.
  • The final hour of operation is the second golden window; the woodie after dark is the park's best experience.

Full guide to El Toro →

Jersey Devil Coaster

48"122cm

Roller coaster · 1½ min · Line-skip

The single-rail coaster — one rider per car on an I-beam track, solo through inversions with nothing around you.

Jersey Devil is a Rocky Mountain Construction single-rail coaster: riders straddle the rail in individual cars, and the layout — a steep drop, inversions, and low-slung swoops — is experienced alone. The 2021 opening made it the park's first new major coaster in years and the region's first of the type.

Tips for Jersey Devil Coaster
  • Ride early afternoon when El Toro's overflow crowd is elsewhere.
  • Solo means solo — brief your teens before they ride alone if that is new for them.
  • The stall inversion is the signature; hold the harness loose and enjoy the hang.

Everything in Plaza del Carnaval

2 attractions

Movietown

The film-themed strip with the Dark Knight's indoor coaster and the section's show buildings.

The Dark Knight Coaster

48"122cm

Roller coaster · 2 min

The indoor wild-mouse in the dark — sharp unannounced turns, Gotham theming, and the park's best bad-weather ride.

The Dark Knight is an indoor wild-mouse coaster themed to the Batman film of the same name: tight hairpin turns taken in total darkness, with themed effects and sound between the drops. The genre is family-thrill, but the darkness upgrades it — the turns arrive unannounced and the lateral forces are genuine.

Tips for The Dark Knight Coaster
  • Ride at the heat peak — it is the park's best midday coaster for weather reasons.
  • First-timers: expect turns, not drops. The genre surprise is half the fun.
  • Sit center; the mouse cars' rear axle whips hardest.

Skull Mountain

Any height

Roller coaster · 2 min

The indoor mountain coaster — dark drops and a themed facade hiding a better-than-it-looks family thrill.

Skull Mountain is the park's indoor mountain: a themed exterior with a dark coaster inside, built in 1996. The drops are modest and the theming is retro, but the combination of darkness and sound gives it a following among locals as a first big-kid coaster.

Tips for Skull Mountain
  • The mid-ride drop is the moment — taller riders should brace.
  • Combine with the Dark Knight for the Movietown indoor hour.
  • The exterior mountain photo op is genuinely good — the facade hides its age better than most 1990s structures.

Everything in Movietown

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