American Eagle

Six Flags Great America · Gurnee, Illinois, USA

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Height: 127 ft39 m
Drop: 147 ft45 m
Top speed: 66 mph106 km/h
Length: 4,650 ft1,417 m
Inversions: 0
Track: WoodLift hill
Opened: 1981
Status: Operating

About American Eagle

★ World's tallest & fastest wooden roller coaster at opening (1981)

American Eagle is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, USA, open since 1981. The ride stands 127 feet tall, drops 147 feet and reaches 66 mph over 4,650 feet of track.

A dueling racing wooden coaster whose two tracks send trains side by side down a first drop that, in 1981, made it the tallest and fastest wooden coaster on Earth.

Field note: one of the last wooden coasters built before steel construction came to dominate new records.