Lightning Rod at Dollywood

Height restriction	48 in (122 cm)

Lightning Rod is a wooden roller coaster located at Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Marketed as the world's first launched wooden roller coaster, the ride is themed to hot rod cars from the 1950s and was manufactured by Rocky Mountain Construction.

Lightning Rod's trains are themed to hot rod cars from the 1950s. Each train has six cars, each seating four people (in two rows of two riders), for a total capacity of 24 riders per train.

Lightning Rod departs the station via a right-hand turn and is launched up its first hill, accelerating from zero to 45 mph. After a short drop, the train crests and descends its tallest hill, dropping 165 feet and attaining its maximum speed of 73 miles per hour. Lightning Rod then climbs to the left and enters the first of several steeply-banked turns. Dropping out of the turn, the train rises to the right, then snaps to the left and back to the right again. After another right-hand turn, Lightning Rod enters another snap-left-then-right sequence. The train enters a double-up climb before descending the mountain through a sequence of four consecutive drops prior to banking right and passing near the station. The train then enters its final turn, a climbing 180-degree turn to the right, before dropping and entering the final brake run, leading to a right-turn back into the station.
**YOU MUST BE SMALL ENOUGHT TO FIT IN THE RIDE< NOT TOO FAT AND NOT TOO TALL.