Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. Built by Arrow Development and designed by Ron Toomer, it opened to the public on May 15, 1976. The coaster was the first roller coaster in the world with three inversions.
History
Corkscrew was originally announced in 1975 as The Great Lake Erie Roller, a name designed to tie in with the nearby Lake Erie, the action of rolling, and "roller coaster". The name was partly based on The Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags Over Georgia.[1][2] The coaster would be manufactured by Arrow Development at a cost of $1.75 million (equivalent to $ million in ) as part of a $4.5 million (equivalent to $ million in ) investment into the park for 1976. Included in the cost was the coaster itself, a new 1000 ft midway for the coaster to pass over, and a Troika ride.[3]