page_title: Maverick (roller coaster)
section_title: Layout
hierarchical_section_title: Maverick (roller coaster) / Ride experience / Layout
caption_attribution_description: English: Maverick's hill and train located at Cedar Point amusement park with Lake Erie in the background.
context_page_description: Maverick is a steel roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Manufactured by Intamin at a cost of $21 million, it was the 500th roller coaster designed by German engineer Werner Stengel and the first to feature a twisted horseshoe roll element. There are two launch points along the 4,450-foot track that utilize linear synchronous motors. Maverick features a beyond-vertical drop of 95 degrees and reaches a maximum speed of 70 mph.
  Maverick was originally scheduled to open on May 12, 2007, but the opening was delayed after testing revealed that its heartline roll element, which followed the second launch, was too intense and placed excessive stress on the trains. It was replaced in favor of an s-curve element that joins two banked turns, and the coaster opened to public on May 26, 2007. The slogan used in the ride's promotion was "The Old West Was Never This Wild."
context_section_description: Two trains are loaded and dispatched simultaneously. One train is launched while the other sits at the bottom of the lift hill. Once the first train has reached the tunnel, the second train is launched. The ride starts out with a LSM launch up a 105-foot (32 m) hill at 20 degrees. At the top of the hill, the train drops 100 feet (30 m) at a 95 degree angle. The train reaches a speed of 57 miles per hour (92 km/h) then goes through a series of banked turns. First, the train turns to the right. Then it turns to the left through a canyon then another turn to the right. It then goes over a 74-foot (23 m) airtime hill followed by a turn to the right into the Twisted Horseshoe Roll which features two 360-degree corkscrew rolls, back-to-back, with a 180-degree banked curve between the two. The train then makes a turn to the right into the tunnel where it is launched 400 feet (120 m) at 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) under the station. The tunnel features special effects such as blue LED strips. At the end of the tunnel, it goes up a hill with brakes going up it, followed by a high-banked curve. The train then goes through a turn to the right into a canyon with an S-curve (original heartline roll location). Water bombs shoot off as the train enters the canyon. The train then passes under the lift hill through an over banked turn at 92 degrees. It then turns to the right into another overbanked turn followed by an airtime hill. The train then turns to the right into the brake run. One cycle of the ride lasts about 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
caption: Maverick train and first airtime hill
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