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Roller Coaster
Lightning Rod
- Manufacturer
- Rocky Mountain Construction
- Model
- Unknown
- Opened
- June 13, 2016
Track layout
Lightning Rod — current configuration
Verified schematic · not to scale
- Station
- 1Chain lift hill
- 2165 ft terrain drop at 73°
- 3High-speed terrain course
- Brakes · Station
Shows the order of elements only. Shape, distance, height and direction are not represented.
Known coaster characteristics (not geometry)
- Hybrid track
- Terrain coaster
View sources (3)
- drop_ft · Duration · Inversions · length_ft · lift_type · max_vertical_angle · SpeedLightning Rod — RCDBRoller Coaster DataBase · Accessed October 7, 2026
- drop_ft · Height · Inversions · length_ft · lift_type · max_vertical_angle · Speed · track_typeLightning Rod — Coasterpedia current specsCoasterpedia · Accessed October 7, 2026
- Opening dateDollywood — RCDB 2026 exact attraction opening datesAccessed October 9, 2026
Specifications
- Track
- Hybrid
- Height
- 80 ft
- Drop
- 165 ft
- Speed
- 73 mph
- Length
- 3800 ft
- Inversions
- 0
- Max angle
- 73 °
- Lift
- chain