Goliath

Goliath opened on June 19, 2014, as only Rocky Mountain Construction's second ground-up wooden roller coaster, following Outlaw Run at Silver Dollar City in 2013. Unlike RMC's better-known hybrid conversions of aging wooden coasters, Goliath was built entirely from scratch on a former parking lot in the County Fair section, using RMC's Topper Track profile — a design built from the ground up rather than adapted from an existing wood structure.

Designed by Alan Schilke, Goliath claimed three world records for wooden coasters simultaneously on opening day: the tallest drop at 180 feet, the steepest angle at 85 degrees, and the fastest speed at 72 mph, with the drop plunging 15 feet below ground level through a tunnel before the train rockets back up into two inversions — a dive loop and a zero-g stall — that were themselves a rarity for wooden track at the time. The steepness record has since been matched and briefly exceeded elsewhere, but Goliath still holds the tallest-drop and fastest records for wooden coasters worldwide.

Goliath's opening also briefly made Six Flags Great America home to more wooden coaster track than any other amusement park on Earth, a title the park held until Kings Island's Mystic Timbers surpassed it in 2017. More than a decade later, Goliath remains one of the definitive examples of RMC's early wood-coaster ambitions, proving the company could build an entirely new record-setting wooden ride rather than just retrofit old ones.