Kings Dominion unveils new hybrid roller coaster “Twisted Timbers” for 2018 season

Kings Dominion opened for the 2018 season this past weekend, and along with the park’s reopening comes a new roller coaster. Twisted Timbers, as it’s called, is a hybrid coaster that used much of the track of the former Hurler coaster with a new twist.

Wood and steel intertwine on this ride into twisting barrel roll drops, dynamic inversions and gravity-defying weightlessness. The hybrid coaster uses the latest technology to combine wood supports with a steel track to give riders an exhilarating experience with maneuvers previously impossible on a traditional wooden coaster. The coaster was designed and built by Rocky Mountain Construction of Idaho, a company renowned for reimagining wooden coasters. Features of the ride includee a 109 foot tall barrel roll drop, over 3000 feet of track, a top speed of 54 miles per hour, three loops, three overbanked turns, and 20 airtime moments.

Twisted Timbers is located in the Candy Apple Grove section of the park and is themed to an abandoned apple orchard on the edge of town. The story behind the coaster is that an unknown force–supernatural or natural–destroyed the harvest years ago and froze the orchard in time; now the strictly “off-limits” orchard has reopened for tours, with the twisted ride as its highlight.

Below is a point of view look at the new coaster.