🎢 Giant Dipper for kids

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack! Look way up! Can you spot a big wooden roller coaster? That's the Giant Dipper, and it is very, very old. It opened in 1924, when your great-grandparents might have been kids.

And here's the whoa part. People built the whole thing in just forty-seven days! That's faster than some people build a treehouse. It's made of wood, so it creaks and rattles like a giant wooden dinosaur waking up. The cars zoom as fast as a car on the highway, fifty-five miles an hour.

Since it opened, more than sixty-eight million riders have screamed on it, and it is still running today! Now it's your turn. Take a big breath and make your loudest roller coaster scream, whee! Then look for the tall, bumpy tracks poking above the rooftops.