World's tallest, longest ‘launched wing' roller coaster coming to Virginia's Kings Dominion Rapterra will become the park's 14th roller coaster, replacing Volcano: The Blast Coaster, which was ...

Virginia Kings Dominion announces brand new roller coaster for 2025 Construction on Rapterra is already in progress on the grounds where the former Volcano: The Blast Coaster once stood.

In 1998, Kings Dominion removed those rides and replaced them with Volcano, an inverted roller coaster that launched at 70 mph and shot riders out of the top of the mountain. Increasing mechanical ...

The new coaster will mark the 14th roller coaster operating on Kings Dominion’s 400-acre property. Rapterra is expected to open in 2025 with construction expected to wrap up this fall.

Kings Dominion has received the go-ahead from Hanover County to begin construction on a new roller coaster that could be the theme park’s biggest project in more than a decade.

Rapterra will become the park's 14th roller coaster, replacing the inverted launched roller coaster, Volcano: The Blast Coaster, which the park retired in 2018.

Riders will find the 89-second coaster at the site of the former Volcano roller coaster that towered over Kings Dominion for decades. The ride was taken down in 2019.