Vortex to be featured on Travel Channel

MASON, Ohio (WDTN) - Kings Island’s Vortex roller coaster will be featured Sunday July 22 at 9:00 p.m. on the Travel Channel’s “Insane Coaster Wars” series in the “Wrong Way Up” category.

The Vortex is celebrating its 25th anniversary season and has given more than 39 million rides, the sixth-most in park history.

Riders on Vortex are rocketed through 3,800 feet of track at speeds exceeding 80 miles per hour through two vertical loops, one corkscrew, one boomerang turn, and a 360-degree helix.

The Beast (“Splintering Speedsters) was featured last week on the Travel Channel. Diamondback (“Extreme Heights) will be featured on the “Insane Coaster Wars” series July 29.

A production crew from the Travel Channel spent three days at Kings Island May 4-6 filming for the Insane Coaster Wars episodes.

The Travel Channel is available in nearly 96 million U.S. households.

Kings Island is owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, a publicly traded partnership that is listed for trading on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FUN.”