The BEST Roller Coasters In America For Families!

Just got back from Dollywood and man we got so many rides on Big Bear Mountain , Dragonflier and Fire Chaser over 3 days. They were all a hit with my 4 year old.

Dollywood has such a great lineup for families… we went last summer and had three days in the park and never got bored… great flat rides too!

whizzer at great america is a solid family coaster as well

My favorite hands down is primordial at lagoon. Surprising forces, great theming, and an extremely memorable ending.

Family coasters are a hot ticket attraction. They drive the longest lines at parks

Love ur videos nice u have a wife and kids hope u have a good day

Cobra's curse has a pretty cool pre-show as well.

Dragonflier is super underrated, was one of my favorites at Dollywood. Phoenix Rising coming to BGT looks like it's going to be equally great.

Under your criteria, I absolutely agree with your top 2. I like Big Bear Mountain more than most high thrill coasters. I also include coasters that might have a higher height requirement, but are also just as gentle as family coasters. With that criteria, Hagrids is just behind Big Bear Mountain. However, my favorite family coaster would then be GhostRider, a ride that is actually quite a bit more gentle than Hershey's Comet, but still so much fun.

I think the multi launch how to train your dragon coaster could give big bear a run for its money

One of these coasters is going to drop off your top 10 list like a crashing comet when you get a taste of the new trains.

Feels like quite the hot take to have anything above most the Disney coasters. But to each their own!

I love me a good family coaster. They're often just pure fun, plus I have kids so there's that. I'm sure you could have put any number of coasters on here but top 10s are just inherently restrictive. Here are just a few more honorable mentions I'll throw in (though a lot of them are just piggy backing off your ideas.) You mentioned Oscar's Wacky Taxy but really any of the GG family woodies could be mentioned as part of that same honorable mention list. You also mentioned Thunderation but like with my above comment there are a ton of great Arrow mine trains that are also great family coasters. Roadrunner particularly stands out. In fact, I'd say Thunderation is a bit of a bold answer for a family coaster because it's more aggressive than most of them and a wheel seat should definitely be avoided by young kids or parents who aren't enthusiasts. You also referenced SooperDooperLooper but quite a few Schwarzkopf loopers could also be brought up. I know some people feel that looping coasters can't be family coasters but Schwarzkopf has a decent number with a 42 inch requirement and that's just cool. Revolution was my first looper and it used to have a lower heigh requirement. Shock Wave was my daughter's first looper and it blows my mind that it has a 42 inch requirement. And frankly a fair number of classic woodies have a 42 inch requirement. Heck, not that I'd call it a good family coaster but Great American Scream Machine somehow has the 42 inch requirement. Finally, a lot of water coasters pass muster. Journey to Atlantis at San Diego is three most coaster like of the rides bearing that name and it has a 42 inch requirement.

Three family coasters that I think highly of are first, Woodstock Express at Kings Island. It’s a junior wooden coaster located in the Planet Snoopy area that has some good airtime hills. The next two are located at my home park which happens to be Lagoon in Utah. The first of these is Bombora, a surf themed coaster with on board audio that plays Beach Boys type of music. The second is the new one that opened toward the end of last season. That is Primordial. It is built in and around a fake mountain and is interactive. After climbing the lift hill and doing a bit of careening down and around the track outside you enter the mountain and stop at two show sections. You are equipped with a laser to shoot at creatures and score points to save the kingdom from being taken over. For the ending the coaster can go two different routes. You get either the dragon ending which features a drop track, which is about the intensity of the drop on Rise of the Resistance. The other way is the owl ending which features a slide track that the coaster can take either forward or backward. Then there are eight different storyline endings. Oh yeah. And you wear 3-D glasses for this ride.

Matterhorn Bobsleds has been closed both times I've been to Disneyland

I was wondering if you were going to put Iron Gwazi at number 1 because of its 48 inch height requirement. That would have been hilarious.

Tiny correction, Dollywood is one of the 11 other parks that build the exact same ride. Orkanen in Fårup Sommerland was the first in 2013. Dragonflyer was number 6/7.

If I had to choose my 5 favorite family roller coasters in America, here’s my picks: 1. Big Bear Mountain (Dollywood - Tennessee) 2. Thunderation (Silver Dollar City - Missouri) 3. Comet (HersheyPark - Pennsylvania) 4. Dragon Flyer (Dollywood - Tennessee) 5. Matterhorn Bobsleds (Disneyland Resort - California) Now, here’s my honorable mentions: - Ninja (Six Flags Magic Mountain - California) - Space Mountain (Disneyland - California) - Cobra’s Curse (Busch Gardens Tampa - Florida) - Fire in the Hole 2.0 (Silver Dollar City - Missouri) - Kentucky Flyer (Kentucky Kingdom - Kingdom) - Phoenix Rising (Busch Gardens Tampa - Florida; once it opens) - Kiddy Hawk (Carowinds - North/South Carolina)

bro Family views are crazy

I’m surprised that Carolina Goldrush at Carowinds hasn’t made this list since it’s both of our home parks, me and Brandon