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Valleyfair! is an amusement park located in Shakopee, Minnesota that opened for business in 1976 and is currently the largest amusement park in the Upper Midwest, occupying approximately 125 acres (0.5 km²). more...

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It is owned by Cedar Fair— Valleyfair! and Cedar Point are the two original Cedar Fair parks and the Fair in the Cedar Fair name comes from Valleyfair!. Its name is often incorrectly written without the exclamation point.

Valleyfair! was originally themed as a Coney Island-styled turn-of-the-century amusement park; this leads to some jarring contrasts with modern-style rides like the steel roller coasters Corkscrew and Wild Thing.

Roller coasters

Although not as well-known a "coaster park" as its sister park, Cedar Point, Valleyfair does have many popular coasters and is known widely for them.

High Roller: The park's oldest coaster, an all-wood out-and-back type coaster. It is 70 feet (21 m) at the highest peak and it has a top speed of 50 mph (80 km/h). It is a common misperception that High Roller is really the Cyclone from nearby Excelsior Amusement Park, which closed a few years before Valleyfair! opened. This is not the case however. While High Roller bears some similarities to Cyclone, it was a brand new ride in 1976, and Cyclone was demolished when the Excelsior park closed. ; Corkscrew: The oldest all-steel coaster in Minnesota. Its primary features are a loop and the two-twist corkscrew segment that gives the coaster its name. This ride is 85 feet (26 m) tall and has a top speed of 50 mph (80 km/h).; Excalibur: A hybrid wood-steel coaster. Excalibur's dips and curves are generally considered the most stomach-churning of any roller coaster located at Valleyfair!. The ride is 105 feet (32 m) tall with a top speed of 55 mph (89 km/h). Only one of a few coasters in the world that has a steel track with a wood frame. Two others, Gemini and Cedar Creek Mine Ride, are located at sister park Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH.; Mad Mouse: As the name suggests, a Wild Mouse roller coaster. Mad Mouse is built in the space formerly occupied by Rails (Wild Rails until 1996, a name change necessitated by the similarly-named Wild Thing), a similar coaster. Mad Mouse is 50 feet (15 m) tall with a top speed 30 mph (48 km/h).; Wild Thing: Minnesota's tallest roller coaster at 207 feet (63 m) high (the fifth-tallest roller coaster in the world at the time of its opening) and the state's only hypercoaster, with a 196 foot drop and the longest low-gravity section of any coaster in the world. It reaches the height of 207 feet and a maximum speed of 74 mph (118 km/h).;

Steel Venom: A shuttle-type inverted impulse coaster built by Intamin AG which reaches a maximum height of 185 feet (56 m) and a top speed of 68 mph (104 km/h). Similar to the Wicked Twister.; Renegade: on September 21, 2006, Valleyfair! announced that it will build Renegade, its seventh roller coaster, for the 2007 season. As the park's second wooden roller coaster, Renegade will provide a 2-minute ride at a top speed of 52 mph. Unique features are to include a twisting first drop, a near-ground high-speed S-turn and a high-speed station fly-by. The ride is to be 3,113 feet long and 104 feet high, with a 91 foot drop.;

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