Roller Coasters in Vermont

As you might guess, there aren’t too many roller coasters in Vermont. But there are two! Both are mountain coasters in the Green Mountains, not far from each other. Let’s take a look. As always, check hours and prices before you visit!

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Killington Resort

In Killington, Vermont, you can find the Killington Ski Resort. During the summer, they offer the Snowshed Adventure Center with several activities, including the Beast Mountain Coaster. Other summer activities include a racing, side-by-side zip line, a seated zip line ride, a ropes course, maze, trampoline jump, the “wrecktangle” ninja-games-style obstacle course, gem mining, and even a get-wet attraction.

I see a webpage that claims it’s open in the winter, but on the resort’s official website, it’s not listed under winter activities. Instead, they only mention a scenic gondola and a snow tubing park. Winter hours are from late May to early October and even in the height of summer is closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays.

If you want to ride the Beast Mountain Coaster, prices “start at” $24 on weekdays and $28 on the weekends. I’m not sure what that means, but check out ways to buy online before you go, it might be cheaper. You can get an all-day pass for unlimited rides on the mountain coaster plus all the other summer attractions and one round trip on the gondola “starting at” $64 for anyone age 7 or older. Parking is free but preferred and valet is available on peak days and weekends. There are several lodges/lots, so I assume you park at the Snowshed Lodge for the Snowshoe Activity Park.

Okemo Mountain Resort

About 20 minutes south of Killington is Okemo Mountain Resort in Ludlow. Here you’ll find the Timber Ripper Mountain Coaster at their Adventure Zone campus. (Make sure to park at the Adventure Zone/Jackson Gore area and not at the main resort.) This mountain coaster operates year-round, listed on both the winter and summer activities.

In winter, the coaster is open Thursdays-Sundays. It costs $20 for one ride if you buy online. If you pay at the window, it’s $25. They also offer two rides for $35/$40 (online vs. at the window), or three for $43/$53. In the summer, you can buy an all-day Adventure Pass for unlimited rides on the coaster, a trampoline jump, a climbing wall, bouncy house, mini-golf, disc golf, a chair lift, an indoor pool, and one session of gem mining. They don’t list the prices in the off-season, but it’s probably in the $60-$70 range. Parking is free.

Honorable Mention: Quechee Gorge Village

Once upon a time, and apparently for not very long, there was a proper roller coaster in Vermont called the Jett Star. It was located at an antique shopping village near Quechee Gorge, sort of between Woodstock and Hartford, near the border to New Hampshire. It only seemed to live here for a few months in 2019, it’s now been literally put out to pasture at Lark Ranch in Indiana, for use during their fall festival.

Water Parks In Vermont

There aren’t too many water parks in Vermont either, not even the indoor kind. All of them are positioned near ski resorts for summer fun when the snow goes away.

• The Pump House indoor waterpark is at Jay Peak Resort, a ski resort near the Canadian border. Vermont’s only indoor water park has 4 slides, a kid’s play tower, a lazy river, an activity pool with a climbing wall and basketball, and a FlowRider surfing simulator. Day passes cost $45 during the week and $49 on weekends, including Fridays. Open year-round.

• Smugglers’ Notch is a resort town with an array of water play areas, which you can buy a day pass to all of them at once. The Courtside pool has one flume slide. The Mountainside Water Playground has a lap pool, a big tube slide, and a little slide and play lagoon. Notchville Park features one tube slide, a splash area, a lily pad walk, and an activity pool with a waterfall. Plus two reservoirs for deeper swimming and boat rentals. Your “daycation” ticket includes all this, plus an indoor play area, disc golf, mini-golf, playgrounds, shuttles, lawn games, bike parks and walking trails for $89 per day for adults, and $55 if you’re a Vermont resident.

• Bromley Mountain in Peru offers summer activities like other ski resorts in the off-season. This one doesn’t have a mountain coaster, but it does have a raft waterslide. There’s also an alpine slide, a giant swing, climbing wall, trampoline jump, an upside-down-bike thing, inflatables, bumper boats, a DIY spinning ride, basketball game, a chairlift, a zip line, and a ropes course. It looks like the only way to ride the slide is with the all-day Mountain Adventure Pass for $52 or $42 after 3 pm which includes everything except for the zip line and ropes course. Add the 2.5 hours on the ropes course for $89 total, and add on the zip line for $10 on either of those tickets.

Did I miss anything? Have you been to any of these resorts? What are you looking forward to doing this year? Let me know in the comments below!