Anaconda

Kings Dominion built Anaconda over Lake Charles specifically to do something no coaster had done before: send a full loop-and-corkscrew layout through a tunnel below the water's surface. Arrow Dynamics designer Ron Toomer — the engineer behind dozens of Arrow's signature loopers — put much of the ride's 2,700 feet of track directly over the lake, with construction beginning in late 1990 on land that had briefly held King Kobra, a shuttle-loop coaster removed in 1987.

After a 128-foot chain lift, trains dropped 144 feet into a 126-foot underwater tunnel, then climbed straight into a 100-foot vertical loop, a 90-foot sidewinder, a mid-course brake run, a figure-eight turnaround, and a closing double corkscrew — four inversions that made Anaconda the first Kings Dominion coaster ever built with more than a single loop.

The underwater tunnel became the ride's signature moment and a genuine world first for looping coasters, giving Anaconda a level of name recognition among coaster enthusiasts that outlasted its rougher, more dated Arrow-era trains and over-the-shoulder restraints.

Anaconda ran for 33 seasons before Kings Dominion closed it permanently after the 2024 season, clearing the Lake Charles site for future expansion of the surrounding Jungle X-Pedition land — the same area that had already added Tumbili in 2022 and would add Rapterra the following spring.