Ghoster Coaster (formerly Scooby’s Gasping Ghoster Coaster), is a junior

wooden roller coaster A wooden roller coaster is a type of roller coaster classified by its wooden track, which consists of running rails made of flat steel strips mounted on laminated wood. The support structure is also typically made of wood, but may also be ...

located at

Canada's Wonderland Canada's Wonderland, formerly known as Paramount Canada's Wonderland, is a amusement park located in Vaughan, Ontario, a municipality within the Greater Toronto Area. Opened in 1981 by the Taft Broadcasting, Taft Broadcasting Company and the Gr ...

whose name was shortened to just "Ghoster Coaster" for the 2010 season, as part of the transition to

Planet Snoopy Planet Snoopy is a ''Peanuts'' themed area for children at several Six Flags amusement parks. All of them originally opened when the parks where owned by Cedar Fair, prior to Cedar Fair's merger with Six Flags in 2024. Locations Current Planet ...

. Ghoster Coaster opened, along with the entire park, on May 23, 1981, as one of the five original roller coasters to open with the park. The other four were Dragon Fyre, Thunder Run, the Wilde Beast, and the Mighty Canadian Minebuster. All three wooden coasters were designed by Curtis D. Summers and built in-house by the Taft Broadcasting Company. Some sources claim

Philadelphia Toboggan Company Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters (PTC) is one of the oldest existing roller coaster manufacturing companies in the world. Based in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, it was established in 1904 by Henry B. Auchy and Chester Albright under the name Philadelphi ...

(PTC) built these coasters, but PTC stopped building coasters in 1979. Ghoster Coaster was awarded ACE Coaster Classic status, but that status has since been rescinded as a result of recent changes to the coaster.

References

External links

Official ''Ghoster Coaster'' page
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