Where Is the World's Largest Roller Coaster?

If you really love riding roller coasters, then your favorite amusement park might be the one in Valencia, California. This park contains the world's highest roller coaster — at its peak, it reaches a height of 125 feet!

The ride from beginning to end covers a distance of 4,631 feet — more than three- quarters of a mile! And the roller coaster's steepest drop, 115 feet, can send a rider downhill at speeds of more than 55 miles per hour!

A roller coaster in Japan is 4,698 feet long, but it's not as high as the California coaster.

The first ferris wheel ever built was also one of the largest! The wheel, named after its builder — George Ferris, was 250 feet in diameter and held thirty-six 60- passenger cars.

It was built in Chicago in 1893, but taken down about a decade later. Today, no ferris wheel in the world is more than 200 feet in diameter.