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operating
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
Florida's African-themed coaster safari
Photo: See Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tampa, Florida, United States
Eight operating coasters across themed lands — Iron Gwazi hybrid, SheiKra dive, Montu inverted, and Cheetah Hunt multi-launch. Opened in 1959 as a brewery gardens tour. Stats sourced from buschgardens.com/tampa.
Tallest
206ft
Iron Gwazi
Fastest
76mph
Iron Gwazi
Longest
4435ft
Cheetah Hunt
Most inversions
7inv.
Montu
Park maps
Google map with Atlas ride pins first. Schematic layout stays below. For dining and wayfinding, use the official map.
Official park map
Hours, dining, and wayfinding live on Busch Gardens Tampa Bay's website. Coaster Atlas links out instead of copying their map artwork.
Schematic map
Auto-layout by land — tap a pin for the ride page.
Map: Coaster Atlas · Original auto-layout template
Land map
Coasters grouped by park area — tap a name to highlight on the schematic.
Map legend
Ride levels
Pin color
- Extreme
- Thrill
- Family
- Kid / junior
Ride types
Pin icon
- Steel coaster
- Wooden coaster · not here
- Hybrid coaster
- Flat ride · not here
- Water ride · not here
- Dark ride · not here
Lands & areas
- Cheetah Hunt Plaza · 1
- Egypt · 1
- Congo · 1
- Morocco · 1
- Sesame Street Safari of Fun · 1
- Stanleyville · 3
Every operating coaster at this park is listed. Flat and water rides may still be a sample — use ?scope=all on the park page.
Coaster roster(7)
Cheetah Hunt Plaza (1)
Sesame Street Safari of Fun (1)
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Past coasters(1)
Retired or relocated coasters remain listed for history and ride logs — they do not appear in search or the operating roster.
Other attractions(3)
Coasters onlyFlat rides, water rides, and more — lighter detail than coasters. Coaster Atlas stays coaster-first; these are here for full park-day context.
Thrill & flat rides(2)
Water rides(1)
Park guides
Cedar Point coaster lineup strategy
How to order a day across Magnum, Raptor, Millennium, and the rest of the peninsula.
Cedar Point in a nutshell
A lakefront mega-park known for height records, dense coaster lineup, and a full flat-ride collection.
Cedar Point lands overview
FrontierTown, The Boardwalk, Millennium Island, and how the peninsula is organized.
Height requirements explained
Minimum heights are safety rules — measured with shoes at the queue entrance.
Park timeline
Sources & official links
We link out to parks, manufacturers, and the pages where facts and media come from.
- Busch Gardens Tampa Bay — official sitebuschgardens.com(opens in a new tab)
- Busch Gardens Tampa Bay — official park mapOperator wayfinding — we link out, we do not host their map artwork(opens in a new tab)
- Busch Gardens Tampa Bay — YouTubeOfficial channel(opens in a new tab)
- Busch Gardens Tampa Bay — InstagramOfficial profile(opens in a new tab)
- Busch Gardens Tampa Bay — FacebookOfficial page(opens in a new tab)
- Busch Gardens Tampa Bay — TikTokOfficial profile(opens in a new tab)
- Busch Gardens Tampa Bay — XOfficial profile(opens in a new tab)
- Park photo (See Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0)Image license & attribution(opens in a new tab)
- Park logo sourceImage license(opens in a new tab)
- How we source our dataCoaster Atlas policy