The Smiler
The Smiler is a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers Resort in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. It was built in 2013 and is an Infinity Coaster model from Gerstlauer and is located in the X-Sector area of the park.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Alton Towers and Oblivion.
Alton Towers
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alton Towers, the largest theme park in the United Kingdom, is in Staffordshire, England. It is generally considered by rollercoaster enthusiasts to hold its own with any such park in the world.
Oblivion
Roller coaster
Photo: DAllardyce, Public domain.
Oblivion is a steel roller coaster at the Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire, England. Marketed as the "world's first vertical drop roller coaster", it was manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard as the first Dive Coaster.
Spinball Whizzer
Roller coaster
Photo: Ukdave2010, Public domain.
Spinball Whizzer is a spinning roller coaster located in The Towers area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. Built by Maurer Söhne, it was previously sponsored by Sega, the company that created the Sonic the Hedgehog video game franchise, and was known as Sonic Spinball from 2010 to 2015. Spinball Whizzer is situated 630 feet north of The Smiler.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alton and Denstone.
Alton
Village
Photo: Paul Buckingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alton is a village in Staffordshire, England. It is noted for the theme park Alton Towers, built around the site of Alton Mansion, which was owned by the Earls of Shrewsbury, and designed by Augustus Pugin.
Denstone
Village
Photo: Linda Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Denstone is a village and civil parish situated between the towns of Uttoxeter in East Staffordshire and Ashbourne in Derbyshire. It is located next to the River Churnet. Denstone is situated 2 miles southeast of The Smiler.
Whiston
Village
Whiston is a village in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. Population details as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Kingsley. It is located within the Churnet Valley on the A52 road east of the village of Froghall. Whiston is situated 3 miles northwest of The Smiler.
The Smiler
- Type: Roller coaster
- Description: steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, United Kingdom
- Categories: steel roller coaster, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Farley, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.98729° or 52° 59′ 14″ northLongitude
-1.89544° or 1° 53′ 44″ westOpen location code
9C4WX4P3+WROpenStreetMap ID
node 2097609286OpenStreetMap feature
attraction=roller_coasterWikidata ID
Q4026941
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“The Smiler” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “The Smiler”
- French: “The Smiler”
- German: “The Smiler”
- Italian: “The Smiler”
- Japanese: “ザ・スマイラー”
- Polish: “The Smiler”
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Highlights include X-Cite and The Games Bunker.
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