The Smiler

The Smiler is a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. The Infinity Coaster model from Gerstlauer set a world record for most inversions on a roller coaster when it opened in 2013, featuring 14 inversions that include dive loops, sidewinders, corkscrews, and other inverting elements.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Alton Towers and Oblivion.

Alton Towers

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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

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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

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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, the UK's biggest and most famous theme park built around the site of Alton Mansion, which was owned by the Earls of Shrewsbury, and designed by Augustus Pugin.

Denstone

Village

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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″ north

Longitude

-1.89544° or 1° 53′ 44″ west

Open location code

9C4WX4P3+WR

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2097609286

OpenStreetMap feature

attraction=roller_coaster

Wikidata 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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