Kings Island · Operating · 1972

Woodstock Express

38 ft · 35 mph

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Kid rideKings Island Official park siteCamp SnoopyPhiladelphia Toboggan Coasters38 ft · 35 mph

Woodstock Express has run in Kings Island's children's area since the park's opening season in 1972, giving young riders their first taste of drops and turns aboard a compact Philadelphia Toboggan Company wooden coaster themed to Snoopy's accident-prone best friend. Its modest hills belie a real coaster experience: a minimum height of 46 inches solo, or 40 inches with an accompanying rider, keeps it aimed at building confidence rather than delivering major airtime. Generations of Kings Island families have used it as the bridge between kiddie rides and the park's full-sized wooden coasters.

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Ride profile

Scaled against Kings Island's operating coasters

FamilyWood

Park intensity

Height

38 ft

#13 of 14 at Kings Island

Height38 ft

Speed35 mph

Length1,350 ft

InversionsNone

Ride experience

Family
Junior
Ptc
Wood

Ride details

Min height

3'10" (3'4" w/ adult)

Track

Wood

Specs from sixflags.com

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Family coasters — what to expect

Moderate height caps, shorter layouts, and gentler forces for mixed-age groups.

Height requirements explained

Minimum heights are safety rules — measured with shoes at the queue entrance.

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Smaller trains, winding layouts, and family-friendly pacing — often themed as mining adventures.

Rocky Mountain hybrid coasters

Steel track on reinvented wooden structures — steep, twisted, and often relentless.

History

Sourced timeline and background for Woodstock Express.

Timeline

1972
Woodstock Express opens
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Background

When Kings Island opened its Hanna-Barbera-themed children's area in 1972, the park needed a junior coaster gentle enough for first-time riders but still built with real wooden-coaster hardware.

Philadelphia Toboggan Company supplied the compact layout, which has been rethemed multiple times as the surrounding children's land changed identity — most recently taking on Snoopy's accident-prone best friend Woodstock as its namesake. Despite its small footprint, the ride enforces a real height requirement: 46 inches to ride solo, or 40 inches with an accompanying rider, closer to a genuine family coaster than a toddler ride.

Its continuous operation since the park's opening season makes it one of a handful of Kings Island rides that predate nearly every other attraction still standing in the park, surviving multiple children's-area retheming projects over five decades.

Woodstock Express still functions as the bridge between Kings Island's kiddie rides and its full-sized wooden coasters, giving young guests a real — if gentle — introduction to the hobby before they graduate to The Beast or The Racer.

History primarily sourced from sixflags.com. See also our data policy.