Congo Rapids

This article is about the river rapids at Six Flags Great Adventure. For the river rapids at Alton Towers, see Congo River Rapids.

Congo Rapids
Six Flags Great Adventure
Area	Adventure Seaport
Coordinates
Status	Operating
Opening date	June 1981
General statistics
Manufacturer	Intamin
Lift system	1 lift hill
Capacity	1,500 riders per hour
Restraint style	Seat Belts
Height restriction	36 in (91 cm)
Flash Pass Available

Congo Rapids is a river rapids ride operating at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey.

History

Six Flags Astroworld and Intamin AG partnered in 1979 to build the world's first river rapids ride in 1980 called Thunder River. The water ride became popular at Astroworld that Six Flags debuted two new river rapids in 1981 at Six Flags Magic Mountain and at Six Flags Great Adventure both named Roaring Rapids. During the 1980s, Roaring Rapids at Great Adventure received major modifications to get guests wetter with a safer ride experience. In 1991, Roaring Rapids received a new name, Congo Rapids, with the new theme area Adventure Rivers. Today, the river rapids is located in Adventure Seaport, along with only Nitro and two kids areas one safari themed the other looney tunes. Congo Rapids operates from spring to the end of the season in October for Fright Fest.

Ride

Once the twelve riders strap themselves into one of the twelve boats, the boat then leaves the station to the man made river that is shaped like an rectangle. During Congo Rapids, there are different objects that are in the water disrupts the flow of the water that creates the rapids in the river. Also the ride features waterfalls at the end of the course of the ride as another way to get riders completely soaked. Once riders go through the course of the ride, then the boat will reach to one of the lifts to take the boats back to the station. Congo Rapids features dual loading stations, where boats can be loaded as twice as fast than one loading station.

See also

• Roaring Rapids
• Thunder River

Primary sources

• Great Adventure History, Roaring Rapids full of information and facts of Congo Rapids