The History of Siren's Curse

Siren's Curse is Cedar Point's newest roller coaster, and it does something almost no other ride in the world does. It stops you on a section of track that looks broken off, then tilts you forward until you are staring straight down, and only then lets you drop.

The tilt

Siren's Curse is a tilt coaster, a rare type in which a short piece of track sits unconnected at one end, as if it has snapped off. The train rolls onto it and stops. That section then works like a giant see-saw, rotating the whole train from flat to a full ninety degrees, hanging riders face-down over the drop, before it locks into line with the track below and releases. It opened in 2025 as North America's tallest, fastest and longest tilt coaster, and it is the first new tilt coaster built anywhere in the world since a single ride in Taiwan back in 2002. Beyond the tilt it runs 160 feet tall at 58 miles per hour, with two inversions and thirteen moments of airtime.

A legend from the lake

The ride is themed to a Lake Erie legend of sirens, mythical singers said to lure sailors beneath the water, now risen to snare guests on land. Its 160-foot lift tower is dressed as a rusted shipping crane, fitting for a park that sits on a peninsula in the lake. Siren's Curse capped an unusual three years in a row of new coasters at Cedar Point, after Wild Mouse in 2023 and Top Thrill 2 in 2024.

One thing to know

The tilt section is a computer-controlled see-saw held by a heavy latch, and it is genuinely wind-sensitive. If the moving and fixed rails do not line up perfectly, the ride simply tilts the train back to level and unloads the riders, rather than releasing them.

Siren's Curse is one chapter in the history of Cedar Point.

Siren's Curse at a glance