The Leavenworth Adventure Park mountain coaster uses gravity, but you provide the brakes.
An orange and silver tower is set into the granite hillside on Highway 2 in Leavenworth, acting as a sentry to the town’s Bavarian-style streets. Yes, there’s a roller coaster in the Cascades, but the ride might pale compared to the adventure that surrounds it.
The Leavenworth Adventure Park’s alpine coaster—the first, and only, in Washington—boasts spiral helix circles and hairpin turns along a 2,700-foot-long track. This kind of gravity-powered ride is common in the Alps: Germany’s longest coaster glides for nearly two impressive miles. Given Leavenworth’s Bavarian theme, the oddity made perfect sense
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