Wild Mouse is a

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Beech Bend Park Beech Bend is an amusement park, campground and automobile race track located in Warren County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky, just outside the limits of the city of Bowling Green. History The park takes its name from a bend in Barren River whe ...

in Warren County,

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. It has a height of 42.7 feet with a length of 1377.9 feet. It was manufactured by Zamperla Rides of Italy. It was installed at

for the 2005 season, just one year before the park's signature ride the

Kentucky Rumbler Kentucky Rumbler is a wooden roller coaster at Beech Bend Park in Warren County, Kentucky. It has a drop of 80 feet and a height of 96 feet. Before Kentucky Rumbler, the park did not have a signature ride, and it is the most popular ride in the ...

. The ride is a Zamperla Twister Coaster ride; there are several coasters like this including Ragin' Cajun at Six Flags America, and the Rockstar Coaster at

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. Wild Mouse is a spinning version of the classic

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roller coaster. It was named after

's former wooden Wild Mouse that was removed from the park and sold to Casino Pier Amusement Park in New Jersey. The Wild Mouse has a total of six trains. Each has one row of 4 seats, and are built to resemble a mouse. The colors of the trains are green, orange, purple, blue, pink, and red. As of 2014 Beech Bend always uses four of the trains. The ride is one of the more popular rides in the park and usually has the longest line of any ride in the park on busy days. The height requirement is 42 inches tall to ride with an adult, and 48 inches to ride alone. It is located on the opposite side of the park from the

, near Beech Bend Hall.

References

{{reflist 1. Beech Bend Park Ride info http://www.beechbend.com http://www.beechbend.com/thrillrides.htm Roller coasters in Kentucky Roller coasters introduced in 2005