Timber Drop
Timber Drop is a steel roller coaster located at the Fraispertuis City amusement park in Jeanménil, France. With a slope of 113.1°, the coaster held the world record for the steepest drop in the world from 1 July 2011 to 16 July 2011, and currently holds the record for the steepest roller coaster drop in Europe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Freddo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Roller coaster
- Description: roller coaster in Fraispertuis City
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fraispertuis City and Église Saint-Pient d’Housseras.
Fraispertuis City
Theme park
Photo: Freddo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fraispertuis City is a theme park in Jeanménil, France. It opened in 1966. Its roller coaster Timber Drop, created by S&S Power, was the steepest in the world when it opened on July 2, 2011, but it lost the record with the opening on July 16, 2011, of Takabisha at Fuji-Q Highland in Japan.
Église Saint-Pient d’Housseras
Church
Photo: Coyau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Église Saint-Pient d’Housseras is a church, which is situated 2 km southwest of Timber Drop.
Église de l’Assomption-de-Notre-Dame de Jeanménil
Church
Église de l’Assomption-de-Notre-Dame de Jeanménil is a church, which is situated 3½ km west of Timber Drop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Gorgon and Mortagne.
Saint-Gorgon
Village
Photo: Coyau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Gorgon is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Saint-Gorgon is situated 6 km west of Timber Drop.
Mortagne
Village
Mortagne is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. It shares its name with the eponymous river which borders the commune on its south-eastern side. Mortagne is situated 6 km south of Timber Drop.
Sainte-Hélène
Village
Sainte-Hélène is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Sainte-Hélène is situated 6 km southwest of Timber Drop.
Timber Drop
- Categories: steel roller coaster, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Jeanménil, Arrondissement of Épinal, Vosges, Grand Est, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.32426° or 48° 19′ 27″ northLongitude
6.72968° or 6° 43′ 47″ eastInception
2011Height
18 metres (59 feet)Operator
Fraispertuis-CityOpen location code
8FW88PFH+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 13326306514OpenStreetMap feature
attraction=roller_coasterOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedWikidata ID
Q3528731
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Timber Drop” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Timber Drop”
- French: “Timber drop”
- French: “Timber Drop”
- French: “Timberdrop”
- German: “Timber Drop”
- Polish: “Timber Drop”
- Spanish: “Timber Drop”
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Highlights include La Ronde des Rondins and La Rivière Castor.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Timber Drop”. Photo: Freddo, CC BY-SA 3.0.