Wonder Wheel
The Wonder Wheel is a 150-foot-tall eccentric Ferris wheel at Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park at Coney Island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park and Coney Island Cyclone.
Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park
Theme park
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Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park is a family-owned amusement park located at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. It features six adult rides and 16 kiddie rides, including a dozen family rides that parents and children can ride together.
Coney Island Cyclone
Roller coaster
Photo: FieldMarine, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cyclone, also called the Coney Island Cyclone, is a wooden roller coaster at Luna Park in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Coney Island Cyclone is situated 430 feet northeast of Wonder Wheel.
Soarin’ Eagle
Roller coaster
Photo: Eliedion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Soarin' Eagle is a steel roller coaster located at the Scream Zone at Luna Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. The ride was the first ever Zamperla "Volare" roller coaster when it opened in 2002 at Elitch Gardens in Denver, Colorado, as the Flying Coaster. Soarin’ Eagle is situated 410 feet west of Wonder Wheel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coney Island and Brighton Beach and Brighton Beach.
Coney Island and Brighton Beach
Photo: David Reilly, CC BY 2.0.
Coney Island and Brighton Beach are in Brooklyn. In addition to those two neighborhoods, this article covers Manhattan Beach, Gravesend, and Sheepshead Bay.
Brighton Beach
Neighborhood
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline.
Sea Gate
Neighborhood
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Sea Gate is a private gated community at the far western end of Coney Island at the southwestern tip of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Located on the portion of the Coney Island peninsula west of West 37th Street, it contains mostly single-family homes, some directly on Gravesend Bay.
Wonder Wheel
- Type: Ferris wheel
- Description: Ferris wheel in Coney Island
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.57404° or 40° 34′ 27″ northLongitude
-73.97915° or 73° 58′ 45″ westInception
May 1920Height
151 feet (46 metres)Open location code
87G8H2FC+J8OpenStreetMap ID
node 4080306783OpenStreetMap feature
attraction=big_wheelOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q1465377
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Satellite Map
Discover Wonder Wheel from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From French to Korean—“Wonder Wheel” goes by many names.
- French: “Wonder Wheel”
- Hungarian: “Wonder Wheel”
- Japanese: “ワンダー・ホイール”
- Korean: “원더 휠”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dizzy Dragons and Big Foot.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Coney Island and Deno’s Sweet Shoppe.
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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 “Wonder Wheel”. Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.