The Voyage
Location	Holiday World
Park section	Thanksgiving
Type	Wood
Status	Open
Opened	May 6, 2006
Manufacturer	The Gravity Group
Designer	Mike Graham, Korey Kiepert, Larry Bill, Chad Miller, Will Koch
Track layout	Out and Back
Height	163 ft (50 m)
Drop	154 ft (47 m)
Length	6,442 ft (1,964 m)
Max speed	67.4 mph (108.5 km/h)
Inversions	0
Duration	2:45
Max vertical angle	66°
Capacity	1,200 riders per hour
Cost	US$ 6,500,000
Max G force	4
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The Voyage is a hybrid wooden roller coaster which opened in May 2006 at Holiday World, an amusement park located in Santa Claus, Indiana, USA. A wooden hybrid consists of a steel structure with wood track. The Voyage has a lift hill of 163 feet, followed by drops of 154 feet, 107 feet and 100 feet. It travels underground through tunnels five times. It is the third longest wooden coaster in the world at 6,442 feet (Son of Beast and The Beast at Kings Island are longer) and fourth fastest at 67.4 mph. In addition, The Voyage has the most air time of any wooden roller coaster in the world with 24.2 seconds and features three 90-degree banked turns and a first drop that is a steep 66 degrees. The Voyage is also the sixth tallest wooden roller coaster. In 2006, The Voyage won the Golden Ticket Award from Amusement Today magazine as the Best New Ride. In 2007, The Voyage was awarded the Golden Ticket Award for Best Wooden Coaster. In fact, it captured more vote points than any other wooden or steel roller coaster ever.^[1] It retained the title for 2008 and 2009. For 2009, it received more votes than the top steel coaster at 1250 votes.

In October 09, The Voyage was featured on The Travel Channel Extreme Terror Rides 2 Death-Defying Drops: The World’s Scariest Summits and Plummets.^[2]

For the 2010 season, The Voyage will be the first wooden roller coaster in the world to receive the new Timberliner trains designed and manufactured by The Gravity Group. The trains are expected to give a much smoother ride and place less wear and tear on the track when they debut.^[3]

Contents 1 Rankings 2 Statistics 2.1 Ride vehicles 3 Upgrades 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Rankings

Golden Ticket Awards: Top Wooden Roller Coasters[4][5]
Year	2006	2007	2008	2009
Ranking	2	1	1	1

Mitch Hawker's Internet Poll: Best Wooden Roller Coaster
Year	2006	2007	2008
Ranking	1	1	2

NAPHA Survey: Favorite Wood Roller Coaster[6]
Year	2006	2007	2008
Ranking	2	1 (tie)	1

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Ride vehicles

2010-

• Manufacturer: The Gravity Group
• Trains: Two trains: 14 cars per train; Total 28 passengers per train
• Design: Timberliners

2006-2009

• Manufacturer: Philadelphia Toboggan Company
• Trains: Three trains; 7 cars per train; 4 seats per car; Total 28 passengers per train
• Design: Individual ratcheting lap bars and seat belts

[edit] Upgrades

• For the 2007 season, about 1,120 feet of track was replaced for routine/preventative maintenance.^[7]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The Voyage at the Holiday World Official Website
• The HoliBlog - "...and for this we give thanks"
• Review of the Voyage at CoasterFanatics.Com

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