Gemini is a
steel roller coaster at
Cedar Point. Many riders feel that due to the extensive wooden structure that Gemini is a wooden coaster. Coaster type, between wooden and steel, is determined by the track. Gemini does in fact have a steel tubular track. Built in 1978 by
Arrow Dynamics at a cost of $3.4 million dollars, Gemini holds a special place in many coaster riders’ hearts due to its classic feel coupled with the fact that it is a
Twin coaster.
Twin coasters, also called racing coasters, have two side-by-side tracks and usually run the trains in a racing fashion, as Gemini does.
Riders board either red or blue trains, though if the crowd is quite thin they will only run one track. Seated two across in three rows for a total of thirty riders per train, riders are taken up 125’4” to be dropped 118’ at a 55-degree angle. Regardless of age Gemini has some excellent stomach wrenching drops throughout the 3935-foot track reaching a top speed of 60 mph. Coming into the station in split
helixes, riders experience the thrill of a close race nearly every time over the coarse of the just over two minute ride.
More detailed statistics of Gemini:
- Height: 125’4”
- Drop: 118’
- Drop Angle: 55 degrees
- Top Speed: 60 mph
- Duration: 2:20
- Length: 3935’
- Capacity: 1650 rph (riders per hour)
Resources include roller coaster database and extensive riding of way too many coasters