There are so many amazing wooden coasters that are really low in this top 20 because of roughness. The top 2 are wooden monsters that are treated like babies by their respective parks. Just goes to show how maintenance can really affect wooden coasters

If you’re going to ride Boulder Dash, I recommend going on when it’s dark outside, the woods make is even darker and you get very little light from the few lights in the park and the moonlight as the tracks are not lit up. It’s definitely an amazing experience

I'm so glad Zippin Pippin got more recognition after your video on it a couple of months ago, it really is a great wooden coaster. It's basically like Lil Phantom, both are really awesome

Ghostrider is easily my favorite of all coasters. I was super scared back when they shut it down for the retracking, hoped they werent tear it apart and make it one of those hybrids every park is going these days. The retrack just made it smoother like it was when it first opened; now if only they could work on the LONG ASS dispatch for it. Ghostrider doesn't need barrel rolls to scare the shit out of you, just plunk your butt down in the back car and hold on for dear life!

Zippin Pippin better be #1 💯

"I love Ghost Rider, I've always love Ghost Rider, I will always love Ghost Rider" -Chris 2020

Im soooo glad to see Comet getting some love!! No one ever recognizes it. It's truly an underrated, beautiful gem of a coaster.

When airtime thrills has exactly as many wooden credits as you have total credits

After rough days at work, this is my channel to relax before bed. Thank you, sir, for such great insight to these rides.

As someone who grew up in Wisconsin, it's good to see some of our hidden gems get appreciated! And Viper doesn't get nearly enough recognition

Viper is an amazing, underrated ride. Especially considering it is to date the only roller coaster Six Flags has built in house.

El Toro is a little rough, but Six Flags Great Adventure makes sure to retrack the ride and proactively maintain the ride to ensure that it's running as good as it did in 2006. Usually when parks need prefabricated wood track, they need to call Intamin to replace that section, but the park does it in-house with the same materials and building techniques that Intamin used. So I'm sure they'll maintain some sections over this offseason as well.

“I don’t think anyone has fallen out make sure you aren’t the first one” Airtime thrills 2020

2006 was the best year for wooden coasters to be built.

Love the graphic in the top right giving information about the ride and how many times you've been on it. Your editing is top-notch

I could definitely see a large resurgence in wooden coasters soon because their initial cost is much cheaper than most steel coasters, and parks will be looking for discounts after the effects of covid

As a Canadian, my very first coaster was Hades at Wisconsin Dells when it first opened yrs ago. Great to see it on this list! Several years later I travelled to Cedar Point and to this day, leaves me wanting more even in my 50's !!

I think Phoenix will move up again if you ever get that magic perfect day visit. Nice warm/hot day where the coaster has been running full tilt.

ah yes, switchback, the World's Only Shuttle Coaster ™️

So excited to see the Zippin Pippin so high up your list. I would always try to ride it so many times whenever I went to Libertyland as a child. Might head up to Green Bay this summer just to ride it again.

Loved your video, and your list as I was watching something just told me you would have The Voyage at number 2, also the Comet being underrated doesn't surprise me as it's not the first coaster I would think of when it comes to Hershey park either great video once again!!!

Glad to see you moved voyage up, it’s my favorite coaster currently.

No love for The Beast even in your honorable mentions?

Someone else who recognizes the underrated beauty that is Comet! Hersheypark is my home park and Comet is also my number 1 wooden coaster at the park. I really wish you would have gotten to ride Lightning Racer pre 2018, as it has gotten much rougher over the last several years and used to be a lot smoother with a lot more force behind it. But I remain very impressed with how well Hersheypark has maintained a 74 year old PTC woodie!

I actually rode that Wooden Coaster during Grad Night in late May of 2017. It's also my all time favorite rollercoaster I ever been on. The Goliath ride is the fastest, steepest, and tallest wooden coaster of all time. I'll never forget that night.

Voyage, Voyage, Voyage, Voyage, Voyage, Voyage, Voyage, and more Voyage

Nice list. I am sorry to hear that you did not have a awesome ride on Boulder Dash. 2018 was a very rough year for it. Make sure to ride it at night in the coming years. You will not regret it. It is in my top 3.

That is crazy! I live in Wisconsin and I thought I lived in a desert but someone with a huge coaster count with credits around the country comes and says that zip and Hades are in his top 10!

love the vid👍 your always on my recommended

El toro aka the bull is amazing that speed is out of this world ,you nailed it with #1 spot

Nice list man, although I don’t think comet is better than ravine flyer 2

Been waiting for this one from you.

Boulder Dash varies a lot from year to year and even day to day. I've had some rough and mediocre rides and some that were phenomenal. I encourage you to give it another try, preferably at an event that offers nighttime ERT. It really needs several hours to warm up. After dusk, when the air cools and it has been running all day, it starts flying and you will definitely get airtime.

Glad to see Switchback getting some love! 👍

One of the coasters you mentioned only had a lap bar that was like a foot away from you. I went on a wooden coaster at lakeside in Colorado that only held you in with a seat belt no lap bar! It was scary but super fun!

As a Wisconsinite, I'm impressed to see two coasters on here (plus two from GA, which is only like an hour away from me.) Zippin Pippin was my only credit this year, and I can testify that the death bump is worth the drive. Can't wait to get on Hades 360 (hopefully next year)

brooo as time went on i was like. IS HE GOING TO SAY EL TORO.. BECAUSE THAT RIDE IS TOP NOTCH...i was losing hope in you saying it, and you surprised me by saying it and i 100% agree. The ride is to die for. It sounds VERY intimidating in the park like a warthog. Very clever camera placement which i try to hold myself together for that 1 second. It's a really smooth but rough ride

Totally agree with Viper being massively underrated. Unfortunately, haven't ridden nearly as many coasters as you have, but seems like a pretty solid list.

I grew up riding the Zippin Pippin when it was still in Memphis TN. It is my favorite roller-coaster 🎢 ever. I really miss it and I hope to get my children to ride it one day.

Great list! I never felt Comet at Hershey was anything special, unlike the Beast at King's Island, which I love. As far as rough goes, I like that aspect, as long as my spine doesn't get slammed.

You gotta get on Shivering Timbers man...love that ride so much

I had lived in Florida all my life and been to Cedar Point many times so when we went to Six Flags in New Jersey on vacation I wasn't expecting anything to blow me away except for maybe kingda ka which was closed the day we went. My brother likes wooden roller coasters so we decided to go on El Toro I wanted to then jump over to Nitro. Little did I know how much I was going to love that ride. It must of only been open 4 or 5 and I had never heard any hype about it. Also KZfaq and coaster content was less prevalent those days. I feel like it made me love it even more however as I wasn't expecting the ridiculous airtime and overall out of control experience El Toro delivers. My brother almost didn't like it because of how forceful it was haha. It was when Rolling Thunder was still underneath part of it. I remember riding thunder at the end of the day and literally feeling the train and wood sway from wood rot, being one of the few times I felt unsafe on a roller coaster haha 😄 Those are the two things I remember most about that trip. I need to get back up there when the Devil opens and ride it and Toro again!!

Not seeing The Beast on here shocks me. The double helix is so intense. Also at night it’s like you are waiting to be attacked going through the woods.

We're closing in on the top 50 for this year. EXCITING! :D

Hersheypark is my home park. Lightening Racer is my favorite! Phoenix at Knoebels is amazing of course, as well.

I think comets airtime is so good and really underrated with only those buzz bars

I love to see airtime thrills in my recommend Edit:what made you move to Oklahoma

Yes! Ghostrider at #4! It is my favorite woodie coaster! I have not ridden it since probably 2014, but, OMG, it's always on my list when I can get to Knott's Berry! ❤️

Dude, honestly when you can, come to the uk for coasters, you’ll love it

If you ever get a chance you should definitely make it out to Myrtle Beach for Swamp Fox. It's a lesser known coaster, but it has buzz bars, plus some insane ejector airtime on nearly every hill, making it crack my overall top 10 coasters (out of 81 credits)

The beast ( night ride ) amazing

I will never forget my first ride on el toro, went on thinking is was just another basic wooden coaster. Then the lift hill happened and I'm like "um what?" And then the first drop happened and rocketed through the layout and changed my life haha best wooden roller coaster ever 🎢

You should do your favorite “oldie but goodie” wooden roller coasters

Will you still concider lightning rod a wooden coaster after the ibox retracking?

Good to see a lot of my favorite woodies on this list. Zippin Pippin is that good huh?

Zippin Pippin 💪🏽💪🏽 i’m watching from Memphis

Like Theme Park Crazy said, Mystic Timbers proves that you don't have to be the biggest or the fastest to have a great ride. Same with Phoenix at Pennsylvania's Knoebels Amusement Resort! That's why I appreciate wooden coasters and look for the positives.

Airtime thrills uploads* Me: I’ve been looking forward to this

I always love a good woodie list. And get yourself on Renegade soon!

1. Colossos at Heide Park Yeah, it's the only woodie I've ridden so far and it's an Intamin prefab, so it's got to be great - although I still prefer Hyperion and Zadra, so it's just number 3. Maybe whenever I'm going to plan a trip to Phantasialand, I'm also going to throw in Europa Park so I can also ride Wodan and actually get a credit on an true, traditionally built woodie, as a prefab isn't really the same thing (that doesn't mean that prefabs are bad or anything).

As a fellow Okie, I can't believe you didn't have Wildcat there? I am hitting Holiday World, Kings Island and Cedar Point in a few months. Two of these parks are brand new for me and Kings Island has been many years. Love your analysis.

So many shockers on this list! 😃 Isn’t it crazy after LRod’s conversion we’ll have to refer to the wooden version vs the 50%+ steel version!?!

If you get a chance at some point in your lifetime, do Boulder Dash at Lake Compounce as a night ride. It is absolutely terrifying with just the din of lights from the rest of the park since no lights illuminate the track.

Gotta give you some respect back for putting Raven in your honorable mentions. SUPER underrated, I usually spend more time marathoning it then riding Voyage on my HW trips because it's just so fun and reridable...... ....but you still can't put the glory that is Phoenix in your top 5 lol

Nice video

I say this every time, but yay coaster! My small local park getting recognition!

That Goliath rating hurt my soul💔😪

Prowler is my hometown premiere woodie, and I’ll say, when and where you ride is so important: it can be mind blowing or disappointing depending on if it’s warmed up.

I’m literally working on a video just like this 😂

Chris I’m sorry I can’t accept your list without Roar at Six Flags America 🤣🤣

I really need to get put and ride el toro... it's so hyped up.

Haven’t watched this yet but if lightning racer isn’t on this I’m gonna scream. Edit: AHGGGGGGGGAHAHSHSHJSSJ

Hyped up woody failure hahahah

I thought you were going to leave out El Toro. It’s awesome you go there now and you can just ride it non stop never a wait

Lake compounce is my home park and I love Boulder dash, one of my favs along with Zoomerang

You should try Wodan at Europapark it's europe's biggest gci and i love how it interact with 2 different coasters and has one of the worlds best theming

Shivering Timbers at Michigan's Adventure. Its similar to The Voyage but without the slower sections, a total airtime machine.

You should make a video discussing the top 3 wooden rollercoasters and what could top them because they have been in that position for a while now.

This means Voyage is now between his number 3 spot overall and number 5 overall.

Damn The Beast is my favorite and it aint even on the list. And that's having ridden Outlaw Run, Prowler and Mystic Timbers

I think the only wooden roller coaster I ever rode was Judge Roy Scream at Six Flags Over Texas, unless Frontier City in Oklahoma had a wooden one I forgot. I think at the time, they only had the Silver Bullet and the Orange Blossom Special. Loved them both back in the 80s (as well as the JR Scream and Shockwave down south of them).

Phoenix will always be one of my top three!

I'm lucky enough to live 5 minutes from el toro. If I am a bad mood or having a crap day I go an hour before closing and ride el toro a few times to improve my mood.

Imagine if gravity group tracking was as good as their layouts! The Voyage is better since the park has re-tracked it! Mineblower is rough, but so good. Smoother tracking would make it higher. El Toro is so smooth, even though locals say it’s rough in some parts lol

Perfect list, but Coaster looks like it has better trains than Phoenix. But I've only ridden 11 wooden coasters but my favourite of them are Coaster and Ghostrider. My six biggest bucket list wooden coasters are Shivering Timbers, T-Express, Hades 360, Wildfire, The Voyage and El Toro. I'd've mentioned Lightning Rod too, but from what I've heard it's unfortunately going to be re-tracked to become almost entirely I-Box. Thanks for this video!

I rode Mineblower back in March. It was absolutely hauling ass and is currently my number 1! My only issue with the timberliners is that they aren’t chubby friendly. I’m only 6’1 230 and only got 2 clicks on the lap bar.

have you ridden Twister at Knoebels? rougher than Phoenix but with a longer more interesting layout. i grew up on those coasters going every summer to camp!

Six flags great America is my home park and it has some nice rides on it but I can’t wait to graduate high school so I can travel around the country and get some rides on these other amazing rides before they shut down or become to rough to enjoy

ive ridden all of the coasters in the top 3, and voyage and el toro are great rides, but Lrod is just on a different level, to me its like if u combined the relentlessness of voyage with the power of el toro and put them all on one ride, Lrod easily has the strongest and best airtime on any coaster ive ridden, but it also manages to have zero dead spots whatsoever and keep an amazing pace, its one of few rides that i dont think do anything wrong

Coney Island Cyclone! Ok, so I grew up in Brooklyn when the subway was 35 cents and the Cyclone was 50 LoL. Best woodie eva, though steel coasters can be pretty cool too 😎

Riding mine blower in about 2 weeks, hope it’s smoother than 2 years ago

Rode viper at great america the other day it's running a bit rough but it's still such a great ride

El Toro!! It will always be my favorite overall coaster.

I've been on Blue Streak. And that's it... I'll be getting on the other ohio wooden coasters in 2021 and I have high hopes for mystic timbers!

Video suggestion: The best coaster from each color. For example, red could be I305, white could be Maxx Force...

As a born and raised Wisconite... I'll never understand why Zippin Pippin got so much random love this year. I've got to have ridden it close to 100 times by now, and I mean its fun... but number six in the world over Hades, Outlaw Run, Goliath, Ravine Flyer, Boulder Dash, and all those GCI's? That boggles my cheesehead mind quite a lot.

literally no one would’ve complained if you lengthened this by 4 seconds to get mid roll ads, just throw another line in there and get paid!

After actually riding Outlaw Run it’s my favorite coaster over LRod. I think you hate on it a bit too much but you at least raised it and respect it so I’ll take it 😂

Also I ride El Toro all the time I really love it It used to be my number one woodie but ive ridden it so much it doesn't wow me anymore and also this year it lowered alot for me because their assigning rows and the front row on toro kinda sucks. Its a really drastic difference compared to the back.

Your 18th is my #1, over voyage