Fury 325
— — a giga that crosses a state line and keeps going.
Not only on a wall.
“A giga coaster on the north end of Carowinds, the park that straddles the North Carolina and South Carolina line south of Charlotte. The lift hill rises 325 feet over the pines, and the first drop runs to 95 miles per hour through an 81-degree dive. The track crosses the state line twice on the way down. Park opens late March; the queue at first ride is its own ritual.
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Fury 325 opened at Carowinds on 28 March 2015 as the world's tallest and fastest giga coaster, a class of steel coaster between 300 and 399 feet tall. Designed by Swiss firm Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride stands 325 feet above the park midway near Charlotte, North Carolina. The 6,602-foot layout reaches 95 miles per hour and lasts about three and a quarter minutes. The lift, drop, and first overbank cross the North Carolina to South Carolina state line that runs through the park.
Most of what people remember from Fury 325 is air. The first drop falls 320 feet at 81 degrees, the kind of angle that pulls riders off the seat for nearly the full length of the descent. An 81-foot treble-clef inversion and a barrel roll over the parking lot give the second half its airtime moments. In 2023, a crack in a steel support column closed the ride for ten weeks; Bolliger & Mabillard rebuilt the affected section, and the coaster reopened in late August.
Carowinds operates seasonally, from late March through early November, with a holiday Winterfest in December that does not run the coaster. Fury 325 sits on the north end of the park near the Plaza Gate. Single-rider lines on weekday mornings often clear in under thirty minutes; main-queue waits run an hour or longer on summer Saturdays. Riders must be at least 54 inches tall. The park, now part of Six Flags Entertainment after the 2024 Cedar Fair merger, lies just south of Charlotte off Interstate 77.