The LA Times reports on the Top 10 Wooden Coasters.

The Top 10 is dominated by woodies at smaller parks along the Midwest coaster belt, a 1,000-mile stretch roughly following I-70 through Missouri, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The list includes a pair of coasters from one park as well as a couple of surprise picks outside the elite ranks.

http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/top-10-wood-coasters-6317/

Boulder Dash, Beast, Voyage and ElToro are all in there...good poll.

I'll give them credit for the list (and trying to identify and use industry insiders to accumulate it).

The only thing that left me confused was that in all the picture caption (see two examples below), GCI was credited for their coaters, but noone else was (Shouldn't Gravity Group show up under The Voyage?)

****Captions from top two photos****

2. El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey

(Great Coasters International)

1. The Voyage at Holiday World in Indiana

(Holiday World)

El Toro is INTAMIN, not GCII, too....

They also did not spell Waldameer correctly...

Surprise surprise, The Voyage and The Beast are the only 2 coasters really in the running for number 1.

Worlds of Fun is in Indiana? Then maybe I should buy a CF Platinum Pass from there!

Worlds of Fun is in Indiana? Then maybe I should buy a CF Platinum Pass from there!

I saw that LOL.

I love how some publishers are just like, "OK. I'm not exactly sure about this information, so instead of using Google like an intelligent human being, I'm going to just take a wild, uneducated guess at this." It certainly adds to the humor aspect, but I'm not sure they are aware that they aren't exactly gaining credibility.

No Cornball?

No Cornball?

Must not have went to IB to ride it?

They have also posted their top 10 steel coasters as well, with Diamondback coming in at #7.

Here's the link to their steel coasters article:

http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/top-10-steel-roller--6318/

^it says that Diamondback finishes with a splashdown into a lake, is this similar to a "cement pond"?

Some would say there is not a nickel's worth of difference...

I noticed they labeled The Beast as an Out and Back Terrain. Have never heard anyone refer to The Beast as an Out and Back.

well arn't all roller coasters out and back, because they all have trains that end up back in the station? but your right, i've never heard it called an out and back before.

I misread an above statement, my apologies!

Edited: February 1, 2010

^since when was The Beast sbno, unless your counting the down period from november 2- april 17?

Oh my bad, I misread the statement...I thought it said "Son of Beast" not The Beast! Oops, lol.

Beast is a classic but Voyage is so much better. Sorry Beast

Beast is a classic but Voyage is so much better. Sorry Beast

oops I don't know how that happend

Beast a classic? Suddenly *I* feel like an antique...

Terpy, who hopes to be around when younguns are calling El Toro a classic

Classic as in coaster years haha I'm the same age as Beast