Griffon
Griffon is a steel roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Williamsburg amusement park in James City County, Virginia, United States. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, the Dive Coaster model opened to the public on May 18, 2007.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Loch Ness Monster.
Busch Gardens Williamsburg
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Busch Gardens Williamsburg, formerly known as Busch Gardens Europe and Busch Gardens: The Old Country, is a theme park in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Loch Ness Monster
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Loch Ness Monster is a steel roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia. Manufactured by Arrow Development and designed by Ron Toomer, it was the first roller coaster in the world to feature interlocking loops. Loch Ness Monster is situated 410 feet east of Griffon.
Alpengeist
Photo: Coasterman1234, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alpengeist is an inverted roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia. Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, Alpengeist has an Alpine mountain region theme and opened in 1997 as the tallest inverted coaster in the world. Alpengeist is situated 760 feet south of Griffon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grove and Williamsburg.
Grove
Hamlet
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Grove is an unincorporated community in the southeastern portion of James City County in the Virginia Peninsula subregion of Virginia, United States. It is located in the center of the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia, communities linked by the Colonial Parkway.
Williamsburg
Photo: Humberto Moreno, CC BY 4.0.
Williamsburg is a city in southeast Virginia. Settled in 1632, it was the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1779 and in 1926, John D. Rockefeller Jr commissioned a restoration project to bring Williamsburg back to its former colonial glory.
Lee Hall
Quarter
Photo: William Grimes, Public domain.
Lee Hall is a community located in the extreme northern portion of the independent city of Newport News in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Lee Hall is situated 5 miles southeast of Griffon.
Griffon
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: steel dive roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg
- Categories: steel roller coaster, building, and tourism
- Location: James City, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.2346° or 37° 14′ 5″ northLongitude
-76.64793° or 76° 38′ 53″ westOpen location code
879569M2+RROpenStreetMap ID
way 240409744OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q1546634
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to German—“Griffon” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Griffon”
- French: “Griffon (Busch Gardens Europe)”
- French: “Griffon”
- German: “Griffon (Busch Gardens Europe)”
- German: “Griffon (Busch Gardens Williamsburg)”
- German: “Griffon”
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