Gwazi - Busch Gardens - Tampa Bay - Florida
N 28° 02.022 W 082° 25.396
17R E 360096 N 3101752
Gwazi - A very rare site - A massive duelling wooden, Roller Coaster. - Located near the Africa themed area of Busch Gardens, Tampa Bay, Florida.
Waymark Code: WMJEHF
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 11/08/2013
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The Coordinates for this listing is at the entrance, but the best coordinates to use to view in Google satellite view is 28.034425,-82.423175 and zoom in on the twisted mass of roller coaster.
"Gwazi is a dueling wooden roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Florida. The name Gwazi originates from a fabled creature with the head of a tiger and the body of a lion. Accordingly, the two sides are named "Lion" and "Tiger". Often, the two tracks are called "yellow" and "blue", (yellow being the primary color of the Lion trains, blue being the primary color of the Tiger trains). It includes almost 7,016 feet of combined track and reaches speeds of 51 m.p.h. Both tracks have similar but nonidentical track layouts.
The roller coaster opened in 1999, a few months after Florida's only other dueling roller coaster, the Dueling Dragons at Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure. Gwazi holds the record for most fly-bys on a dueling roller coaster, with six. A fly-by is where the two roller coasters pass each other in opposite directions at high speeds, giving the psychological impression that the two will collide. It is the largest and fastest double wooden roller coaster in the Southeastern U.S.
Due to the Philadelphia Toboggan Company designed trains, which have been known to deliver rough rides on GCI designed coasters, Gwazi was previously known for giving rough (and at some points, painful) rides, similar to ROAR! at Six Flags America. At the beginning of the 2010 season, Gwazi was spotted with what appeared to be Millennium Flyer trains on the track, with water dummies on board. Starting in 2011, the ride has run with the new cars, which were designed to greatly decrease the roughness of the ride.
At the end of the 2012 Summer season, the Tiger side of Gwazi closed for budget purposes. As of April 11th 2013, Gwazi Tiger is still closed,and that there is speculation that the trains of Gwazi will be sent to Busch Gardens Williamsburg for a possible new attraction and that Gwazi is expected to close within the next couple of years to make way for a new coaster opening in 2015 or 2016, according to a park employee." Text Source: (
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