Vortex at King's Island 1987-2019

This is Vortex at King's Island north of Cincinnati, OH, USA. It was built by Arrow Dynamics and opened here on April 11, 1997. It actually replaced a roller coaster from the same company called the Bat. The bat was the world's first suspended (not to be confused with inverted) steel roller coaster. That coaster operated here from 1981 to 1983 and was forced to close due to a combination of some design flaws and increasingly escalating maintenance costs. Vortex even uses the old Bat station. Vortex is 148 ft. (45.1 m) high, 3,800 ft. (1,158.24 m) long, 6 inversions, a top speed of about 55 mph (88.5km/h), with a drop of 138 ft. (42 m) and a ride time of about two minutes and thirty seconds. This also was the world's first roller coaster with six inversions with two loops, two corkscrews, and a Batwing with two inversions. Vortex closed on October 27, 2019.

[@94XJ]

Goodbye, Vortex. Kings Island was the first theme park I ever visited and started my addiction. I have hemophilia A severe and several doctors warned me to avoid any larger roller coasters as they could cause a lot of internal bleeding. I immediately rode Vortex once the gates opened and collected pictures from every ride with a camera out of spite.

[@OverTheTopChristmasLights]

Great videos. Thanks for your time and work.

[@woodencoasterfan]

Over The Top Christmas Lights no problem. I just uploaded Banshee and Diamondback in the last two days and will have Mystic Timbers up soon.

[@andrewschannel4259]

Farewell, Vortex.

[@officialchase02]

RIP vortex

[@howtolife6783]

1st view and comment this ride is at my home theme park it looks crazy I haven’t been on it