American Eagle
American Eagle is a wooden racing roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois. It was the first wooden roller coaster designed by Intamin of Switzerland and was built in 1981 by the contracting firm Figley-Wright at a cost of $10 million.Photo: Jonrev, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Justice League: Battle for Metropolis and X-Flight.
Justice League: Battle for Metropolis
Dark ride
Justice League: Battle for Metropolis is an Interactive dark ride located at several Six Flags theme parks across North America. The ride is a collaboration between Sally Dark Rides, Alterface, Oceaneering International, and Pure Imagination Studios, and is themed to the Justice League, DC's famous team of superheroes.
X-Flight
Roller coaster
Photo: Jeremy Thompson, CC BY 2.0.
X-Flight is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. Designed and built by Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride opened as the fourth Wing Coaster in the world and the second in the United States on May 16, 2012. X-Flight is situated 530 feet northeast of American Eagle.
Raging Bull
Roller coaster
Photo: Jonrev, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Raging Bull is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, United States. The ride opened to the public on May 1, 1999, as the first hyper-twister roller coaster, the second Hyper Coaster model built by Bolliger & Mabillard, and the tallest and longest coaster in the park. Raging Bull is situated 740 feet northwest of American Eagle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grange Hall and Gurnee.
Grange Hall
Hamlet
Grange Hall is an unincorporated community in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Grange Hall is located at.
Gurnee
Photo: juggernautco, CC BY 2.0.
Gurnee is a village in Illinois. It sits at the midpoint between Chicago and Milwaukee. It's best known as the home of the Six Flags Great America amusement park, Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Chicago water park, the Gurnee Mills shopping mall, and a Great Wolf Lodge location.
Wilson
Hamlet
Wilson was an unincorporated community in southern Warren Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States. The community was located along Illinois Route 120 and is now part of the cities of Waukegan and Park City and the village of Gurnee. Wilson is situated 2 miles southeast of American Eagle.
American Eagle
- Type: Roller coaster
- Description: wooden racing roller coaster at Six Flags Great America
- Categories: wooden roller coaster, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Warren Township, Lake, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.36475° or 42° 21′ 53″ northLongitude
-87.93518° or 87° 56′ 7″ westOpen location code
86JJ9377+VWOpenStreetMap ID
way 1525612723OpenStreetMap feature
attraction=roller_coasterWikidata ID
Q464043
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“American Eagle” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “美国鹰”
- Chinese: “美國鷹”
- Dutch: “American Eagle”
- French: “American Eagle”
- German: “American Eagle (Achterbahn)”
- German: “American Eagle (Six Flags Great America)”
- German: “American Eagle”
- Swedish: “American Eagle (berg- och dalbana)”
- Swedish: “American Eagle”
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