Coaster Dips Glen Echo

The largest of many wood coasters that were built in Glen Echo Park between 1907 and 1950, the Coaster Dips was legendary for having its two largest drops plunging down into the forested Minnehaha Creek ravine. The double out and back layout was originally built with the lift hill rising to the north towards the ravine before it was expanded in 1922 with the lift rising instead to the south requiring an unusually long pre-lift