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    New Jersey has the best roller coasters in the country; Great Adventure just closed it

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    Great Adventure’s Kingda Ka has long been the go-to for thrill-seekers.

    It’s so imposing that PlayNJ.coma gambling review site based in New Jersey, just gave Kingda Ka a perfect score in its ranking of the best daredevil roller coasters.

    The site highlights the gut-wrenching features of Kingda Ka.

    It covers over 3,000 feet of track.

    It exceeds 125 mph.

    It is 456 feet tall.

    It also remains completely unused.

    Six Flags, the parks’ parent company, I stopped the ride at the beginning of last monthending nearly 20 years of terror.

    What is the best roller coaster in the country?

    PlayNJ.com this week named Kingda Ka the most daredevil roller coaster in the country.

    The gambling review site said it reviewed 434 roller coasters in 113 theme parks in the United States.

    Kingda Ka earned a perfect score of 100 on PlayNJ.com, surpassing North Carolina’s Fury 325 – the longest roller coaster in the study at 6,602 feet – as well as the company’s Millennium Force, Orion and Top Thrill 2. ‘Ohio; Virginia Project 305; California Superman: Escape from Krypton and Goliath; and the Texas Titan.

    What happened to Kingda Ka?

    The towering Great Adventure roller coaster debuted in 2005 and quickly became a must-see for fans and casual roller coaster enthusiasts.

    But insiders had been suggesting for months that Six Flags, the park’s parent company, was plotting Kingda Ka’s demise.

    In late October, roller coaster fans flocked to the park to ride Kingda Ka and began posting videos of the “latest rides.”

    A few days later, Six Flags confirmed the park’s most famous attraction no longer worked. He closed Kingda Ka and decommissioned the Green Lantern roller coaster as part of an expansion project already underway.

    An unnamed ride is expected to be ready for the 2026 season and will come after the 2025 debut of The Flash: Vertical Velocity, which Six Flags Great Adventure calls North America’s first super-boomerang roller coaster.

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