The History of Steel Vengeance

Steel Vengeance is built on the bones of another coaster. Its towering wooden frame once belonged to Mean Streak, a slow and famously rough ride, and in 2018 Rocky Mountain Construction turned that old skeleton into one of the best roller coasters in the world.

From wood to steel

For its 2018 rebuild, Rocky Mountain Construction kept Mean Streak's entire wooden support structure and replaced the wooden track with its steel I-Box track, a process that transformed a sluggish giant into a record machine. The retracked layout stretches 5,740 feet and stands 205 feet tall, with a ninety-degree first drop and four inversions. At its debut it set ten world records and coined a new category, the hyper-hybrid, as the first Rocky Mountain hybrid coaster to pass two hundred feet.

The most airtime anywhere

The ride is engineered around airtime, the weightless feeling of being lifted out of your seat, and it holds the world record for it. Across its course a rider spends 27.2 seconds weightless, more than any other coaster on earth. It sits in Cedar Point's frontier-themed section near Maverick, wrapped in an outlaw story, and its three trains are named for fictional bandits. Steel Vengeance is the reason a ride once mocked as one of the park's worst is now regarded as one of its best.

Sister coasters

Steel Vengeance belongs to Rocky Mountain Construction's family of hybrid coasters, which rebuild old wooden rides with steel track. Its closest relative is Twisted Timbers at sister park Kings Dominion, another wooden coaster given the same steel rebirth, converted from the old Hurler in the same era.

One thing to know

Steel Vengeance holds the record for the most airtime of any coaster in the world, 27.2 seconds spent weightless, which is remarkable given it is built on the frame of Mean Streak, a ride once mocked for being slow and rough.

Steel Vengeance is one chapter in the history of Cedar Point.

Steel Vengeance at a glance