Two interlocking corkscrew elements side by side on the Superman Krypton Coaster.

The corkscrew is a roller coaster inversion which most often resembles a loop that has been 'widened' in terms of the element's entrance and exit points being a distance away from each other. The main difference is that riders are inverted at a point angled 90° horizontally from the incoming track, wheras in a loop, the inversion comes parrallel to the track, but travelling in the opposite direction. Two corkscrews on the Superman Krypton Coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio, TX. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Two corkscrews on the Superman Krypton Coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio, TX. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A typical roller coaster The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. ... Roller coaster inversions are features of roller coasters that in some form or fashion, inverts (turns upside-down) its riders. ... Vertical loop on the Shockwave coaster at Six Flags over Texas The generic roller coaster vertical loop is the most basic of roller coaster inversions. ...

It was named due to its resemblance to a the corkscrew tool used to remove corks from bottles. Riders enter the corkscrew element and are transported significantly to the left or right while being flipped upside down 360 degrees. A basic corkscrew A waiters corkscrew A corkscrew is a tool for drawing stopping corks from bottles. ...

Due to them being much smaller than many elements, corkscrews are normally found towards the end of layouts, and often exist in pairs. This may take the form of a double corkscrew, where the end of one leads straight into the next. It is also common to see interlocking corkscrews, where the entrances and exits are parellel, but both corkscrews cross over the other corkscrew's track.

Corkscrew is also the name of several roller coasters, including a three-loop coaster at Valleyfair in Shakopee, Minnesota. Until the hypercoaster "Wild Thing" (the fifth highest and fastest roller coaster in the world at the time it opened) opened in 1996, Corkscrew was the only outdoor all-steel roller coaster in Minnesota. ValleyFair is a themepark in Shakopee, MN. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Shakopee is a city located in Scott County, Minnesota. ... A Hypercoaster is a roller coaster with the first hill being at least 200 feet in height. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...