Ranked strictly by total track length, this countdown runs from 5,486 feet at Canada's Wonderland to a barely believable 13,944 feet outside Riyadh — five countries, four continents, and one ride so far ahead of the field that it is roughly 71 percent longer than the coaster it dethroned. Two rules shape the order. Steel, wood and hybrid all compete on a single table, which is how a 1979 wooden coaster in Ohio lands at number three, ahead of every hypercoaster in Europe. And every entry is a ride you can queue for today — a rule that costs this list three famous names. Lightwater Valley's 7,442-foot Ultimate came down in 2023. Abu Dhabi's Formula Rossa and Nevada's Desperado both still stand, and both sit dark. Twelve circuits remain, and you can ride all of them.
12 Longest Roller Coasters in the World (2026)
The record The longest roller coaster in the world is Falcon's Flight, in Saudi Arabia — 13,944 ft (4,250.0 m), track length. Source: Wikipedia (Falcon's Flight infobox: 4,250 m / 13,943.6 ft) + Intamin. Verified .
Longest Roller Coasters in the World The Ranking at a Glance
Fun Facts About the World's Longest Roller Coasters
- The record stood for a quarter of a century. Steel Dragon 2000 was the longest roller coaster on Earth from August 2000 until the last day of 2025, when Falcon's Flight finally beat it.
- One ride holds all three headline records at once. Falcon's Flight is the longest, the tallest and the fastest roller coaster in the world simultaneously — no single coaster had ever managed that combination before.
- The oldest ride here is also the third longest. The Beast opened at Kings Island in 1979, and its 7,361 feet is still the wooden-coaster record, recognised by Guinness.
- Ranks five and six are seven feet apart. Fury 325 measures 6,602 feet and Millennium Force 6,595 — a gap smaller than the length of one train.
- Europe's longest coaster runs along a beach. The Big One traces the Blackpool seafront for 5,497 feet and is also the tallest roller coaster in the United Kingdom at 235 feet.
- Three of the longest ever built no longer qualify. Lightwater Valley's 7,442-foot Ultimate came down in 2023, while Abu Dhabi's Formula Rossa and Nevada's Desperado both still stand but sit idle.
1. Falcon's Flight
At 13,944 feet, Falcon's Flight is the longest roller coaster in the world by a margin nothing else on this list approaches — it beats the ride it dethroned by more than 5,800 feet, or roughly 71 percent. The Intamin-built giant opened at Six Flags Qiddiya City, in the hills above Riyadh, on the last day of 2025, ending a reign Steel Dragon 2000 had held for a quarter of a century. It is also, simultaneously, the tallest and the fastest coaster on the planet, a triple no single ride had held before.
What makes the layout so long is the terrain. Most coasters are built on flat ground; this one uses the Tuwaiq cliffs as part of the structure. Trains leave the station on a magnetic lift, take a twisting descent through the low ground, then hit a launch that carries them up the full height of the 195-metre cliff face. At the summit the track banks outward over the edge before a near-vertical dive back down the rock into a tunnel, where a third launch takes over. That is why the figure is usually quoted in miles rather than feet — more than two and a half of them — and why the ride lasts several minutes rather than the ninety seconds its speed would suggest.
2. Steel Dragon 2000
For twenty-five years, 8,133 feet of track at Nagashima Spa Land made Steel Dragon 2000 the longest roller coaster ever built, and it still comfortably holds second place. The ride opened in August 2000 in Mie Prefecture, timed for the Year of the Dragon, and its name is the reason it exists at all — a park landmark commissioned to mark the year rather than to fill a gap in the lineup.
Its reputation among enthusiasts rests as much on what you cannot see as on the length. Japanese seismic requirements meant the structure needed substantially more steel than an equivalent American hypercoaster, which is why it reportedly cost around $61.5 million to build — an extraordinary sum for a roller coaster in 2000. The payoff is a ride that keeps going: a 318-foot lift hill, a long descent toward the Nagashima flatland, and then a second half of sustained speed that most coasters have run out of track to deliver.
3. The Beast
The Beast covers 7,361 feet, which has made it the longest wooden roller coaster in the world since it opened at Kings Island in April 1979 — a record recognised by Guinness and unbroken for more than four decades. On a list otherwise dominated by steel megastructures, a ride designed and built in-house by the Ohio park's own crews sits at number three, and nothing wooden has come close since.
Its length comes from the woods. The Beast was laid out through roughly thirty-five acres of forested hillside rather than looped over a compact plot, so the train spends much of the circuit out of sight of the station, running along ravines and diving into tunnels cut into the terrain. The ride time runs past four minutes, which is extraordinary for a coaster with no launch and no inversions — it is simply a very long way home.
4. Fujiyama
Fujiyama runs 6,709 feet around the base of Fuji-Q Highland, and when it opened in July 1996 it was billed as the King of Coasters — at the time the tallest and fastest in the world. The TOGO-built machine has since been passed on both of those counts, but its sheer length has kept it in the global top five for three decades.
The setting is the draw. Fuji-Q sits at Fujiyoshida in Yamanashi Prefecture, directly beneath Mount Fuji, and the ride's high points deliver an unobstructed view of the mountain before each descent. The layout is old-school in the best sense: no inversions, no launches, just a very tall lift hill followed by a long sequence of drops and high-speed curves that use every one of those 6,709 feet.
5. Fury 325
Fury 325 measures 6,602 feet of track at Carowinds, on the border between the Carolinas, and it opened in March 2015 as a Bolliger & Mabillard giga coaster. The number in the name is its height in feet — 325 — and the ride pairs that with a length that puts it comfortably inside the world's top five.
Enthusiast polls have ranked it among the best steel coasters anywhere almost every year since it opened, and the reason is pacing rather than any single element. The first descent runs at a shallow enough angle to hold speed rather than bleed it, so the train carries momentum through a long treble-clef turn, an under-the-walkway dive and a series of low airtime hills. In 2023 a crack was found in one of its support columns; the ride was inspected, a new column installed, and it returned to service that August.
6. Millennium Force
Millennium Force stretches 6,595 feet along the Cedar Point peninsula, seven feet shy of Fury 325 and separated from it by a rounding error rather than a real gap. It opened in May 2000 as the first coaster in the world to break 300 feet, a threshold that gave the giga category its name.
The Intamin design was a genuine break with what came before: a cable lift rather than a chain, hauling trains to 310 feet in a few seconds, then an 80-degree first descent into a layout that never really slows. Much of its length runs out over the lagoon and back, so riders spend a good part of the circuit over water. More than two decades on it still finishes near the top of the enthusiast polls, which is rare for a ride with no inversions and no launch.
7. The Voyage
The Voyage runs 6,442 feet through the woods at Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana, making it the second-longest wooden roller coaster in the world behind The Beast. It opened in May 2006, built by The Gravity Group, and it is routinely voted one of the finest wooden coasters ever made.
Where The Beast trades on distance and darkness, The Voyage spends its length on airtime. The layout packs in a long series of drops that lift riders out of their seats, several of them through tunnels dug below grade, plus three separate drops of over 90 feet, the first of them 154 feet. It is aggressive in a way that older wooden rides are not, and the fact that it sustains that intensity across more than 6,400 feet is precisely why it ranks where it does.
8. Incredicoaster
At 6,072 feet, Incredicoaster is the longest roller coaster at any Disney park in the world, beating Walt Disney World's longest by more than 1,600 feet. It opened at Disney California Adventure in February 2001 as California Screamin' and was rethemed to the Incredibles in June 2018, but the track beneath the new story is unchanged.
It is also the only entry here without a lift hill: trains are launched along the waterfront to around 55 miles per hour, then spend the rest of the circuit tracing the perimeter of Paradise Bay, including a single vertical loop. That waterfront routing is what buys the length — the layout borrows the shape of the lagoon rather than folding back on itself, so the ride runs well over two minutes.
9. Steel Vengeance
Steel Vengeance covers 5,740 feet at Cedar Point and arrived in May 2018 claiming ten world records at once, among them the tallest, fastest and longest hybrid roller coaster. Hybrid means steel track laid on a wooden support structure, and this one was built on the bones of Mean Streak, the wooden coaster that had stood on the site since 1991.
Rocky Mountain Construction kept the timber frame and threaded new steel through it, which is why the layout is so much denser than its footprint suggests. The rebuilt ride delivers four inversions and around twenty-seven seconds of airtime — more than any other coaster on record — across a circuit that runs through and around the original structure's woodwork. It has topped enthusiast polls consistently since opening.
10. Mamba
Mamba runs 5,600 feet at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, a Morgan-built hypercoaster that opened in April 1998 and has been the park's headline ride ever since. It stands 205 feet tall and reaches around 75 miles per hour on a first descent that runs almost the full height of the structure.
The layout is a classic out-and-back, and that shape is exactly why it is long: rather than spiralling over a small plot, the track heads away from the station in a straight line, turns, and comes home over a run of camelback hills built for sustained floating airtime. The second half is a helix and a series of smaller bunny hops, and the whole circuit takes about three minutes — a long ride by the standards of its generation.
11. The Big One
The Big One measures 5,497 feet along the Blackpool seafront, which makes it the longest roller coaster in Europe and, at 235 feet, the tallest in the United Kingdom. It opened at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in May 1994, designed by Ron Toomer for Arrow Dynamics, and it carried Pepsi Max sponsorship until 2011.
Its length owes something to the site. The Pleasure Beach is hemmed in by the Irish Sea on one side and the town on the other, so the layout runs along the promenade and back rather than out over open ground, threading above and between the park's older rides. The result is a coaster you can see from most of Blackpool, and one whose descent points straight out toward the water before the train turns for home.
12. Leviathan
Leviathan closes the list at 5,486 feet, eleven feet behind The Big One and the only Canadian entry here. It opened at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, in spring 2012 as the country's tallest and fastest roller coaster, standing 306 feet and reaching about 92 miles per hour.
It was Bolliger & Mabillard's first giga coaster, and the layout shows the manufacturer working out what to do with that much height for the first time. An 80-degree descent leads into a long overbanked turn, a hammerhead out past the park boundary and a run of speed hills taken at pace rather than for airtime. The ride sits at the north end of the park, where the track is visible from the highway well before you reach the gates.
FAQ: The World's Longest Roller Coasters
What is the longest roller coaster in the world?
Falcon's Flight at Six Flags Qiddiya City, Saudi Arabia, at 13,944 feet — a little over two and a half miles of track. It opened on 31 December 2025 and took the title from Steel Dragon 2000 in Japan, which had held it since 2000. Falcon's Flight is also the world's tallest and fastest coaster.
What is the longest wooden roller coaster in the world?
The Beast at Kings Island in Ohio, which covers 7,361 feet through roughly thirty-five acres of woodland. It opened in 1979 and has held the wooden-coaster length record ever since, a run of more than four decades that Guinness recognises. It ranks third on this list overall, ahead of every steel coaster in Europe.
How is roller coaster length measured?
By total track length around one complete circuit, from the station back to the station. It is a different figure from height, drop or ride time, and it is the number parks and record databases publish. Racing coasters with two parallel tracks are measured one track at a time, not added together.
Why is Formula Rossa not on this list?
Because this ranking only counts coasters you can actually ride. Formula Rossa at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is 6,805 feet, which would place it fourth, but it has not been open to riders since May 2026. Lightwater Valley's 7,442-foot Ultimate is missing for a blunter reason: it came down in 2023.
What is the longest roller coaster in Europe?
The Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, at 5,497 feet, which also makes it the tallest roller coaster in the United Kingdom at 235 feet. It is the only European entry on this list. Germany's Silver Star at Europa-Park is the continent's runner-up, roughly 190 feet shorter.
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