Cliff's Amusement Park · Operating · 2002
New Mexico Rattler
New Mexico's only wooden coaster — CCI's final design, finished in-house after the builder's bankruptcy, with switchbacks and a dark tunnel.
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New Mexico's only wooden coaster — CCI's final design, finished in-house after the builder's bankruptcy, with switchbacks and a dark tunnel.
Specifications
Ride profile
Scaled against Cliff's Amusement Park's operating coasters
Park intensity
Inversions
None
#2 of 3 at Cliff's Amusement Park
Ride experience
- Hybrid
- Wood
Specs from cliffsamusementpark.com
Learn more
Rocky Mountain hybrid coasters
Steel track on reinvented wooden structures — steep, twisted, and often relentless.
Wooden vs steel coasters
Structure and maintenance differ, but the question for riders is feel — vibration, sound, and how the train moves.
Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC)
Hybrid conversions and custom I-box coasters with twisted, airtime-heavy layouts.
Track compliance — why wood feels alive
Wood flexes; steel is stiffer — the same forces feel different on each structure.
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Sources & official links
We link out to parks, manufacturers, and the pages where facts and media come from.
- Cliff's Amusement Park — official sitecliffsamusementpark.com(opens in a new tab)
- Cliff's Amusement Park on Coaster AtlasPark page
- Ride specifications sourcecliffsamusementpark.com(opens in a new tab)
- Custom Coasters International — manufacturercustomcoasters.com(opens in a new tab)
- Hero photo (Jeremy Thompson · CC BY 2.0)Image license & attribution(opens in a new tab)