How old is too old to ride roller coasters at an amusement park?

There's no age limit.

It’s fun just do it

I think OP should rephrase her question to be "how fat is too fat....?"

I know these nuts who go to Disneyland every month. I don’t see that changing as they age. They’re close to 40 now. I will never understand the fascination Disney holds for adults….

Depends on your tolerance. All the Disney coasters are tolerable except for Rock n Roller Coaster, too much headbanging. Six Flags/Cedar Fair parks have coasters so intense people black out. Avoid those.

43. That was the age I was when I had a 30 minute bout of nausea after a coaster at Carowinds with the fam.

Really, r4? Disney is nostalgia. It reminds people what it was like to be a kid. I've never understood the ones who go all the time, but I live in So Ca and go every few years or so. It takes me back to being a kid almost immediately. It's a nice feeling and I don't begrudge anyone who needs to feel that every now and then.

I truly believe we get old because we forget how to play as adults. Going to an amusement park helps us to remember that sometimes it's ok to just have fun. And going as an adult with other adults is refreshing sometimes. OP, no age is too old as long as the person who wants to go on them is in good health. There are signs that warn you if you have back or heart issues to not ride.

I second what R5 said, it really depends on the roller coaster.

There is one that I completely messed my neck up on when I was in my late teens. It was known for having lots of hills and steep drops in succession.

Then there are others where the ride might look (visually) dangerous, but they're most comfortable.

Careful. You may look 19 but your body knows its true age. Many of those rides are body damage waiting to happen.

I love roller coasters but my neck just can't take a lot of them any more. I think my neck is weak from spending so many hours a week working at a computer and I don't have enough strong muscles in all parts of my neck to handle the tossing / turning / whipping head motions of some coasters. I went on an old wooden one recently and couldn't turn my head for a week.

Why would it have anything to do with you, OP? I hate roller coasters, but if other people like doing it, what's it to you?

What about someone who is 65. Average health for their cohort.

it all depends on the coasters you want to ride and your general health. If you've got heart problems or situational positional vertigo or osteoporosis, I wouldn't try anything too extreme.

There's no age limit; just a WEIGHT limit.

How tall are they, OP? Old people shrink. There are height requirements.

One of the saddest days in my life was when I realized that I could no longer ride a roller coaster. My BF & I were at Universal Orlando and we road The Incredible Hulk Coaster. Granted that's a pretty severe ride, but after I finished, I was sick for hours. What gave out was my ability to recover my equilibrium - my balance. From that moment on, any amusement ride that severely stimulated my cerebellum and semi-circular canals would cause me to be nauseous with a severe headache. And yes, I was an eldergay of 60 at the time.

When you get off and feel like you've been electrocuted.

Mary!

I'll ride coasters all day. But it's this kind of shit I REFUSE to even go near. The restraints in a coaster provide the same kind of protection, but at least you're traveling quickly through the inversions. I would be scared shitless to hang upside down several storeys in air like that. And I love amusement park rides.

I am 59, my partner is 78. About 10 years ago we hit all the rides at Knotts Berry Farm in CA after being underwhelmed again at Disneyland. We got through all the roller coasters fine, except the wooden ones. Never had problems before, but on those, my bones felt looser with every turn and my neck even had a headache when it was over. It was very weird. We'd still probably go again, though.

Obviously, Miss OP is asking because she's organizing an outing for the eldergays at her retirement trailer park.

I love to ride roller coasters. My 61-year-old body does not. I cannot react fast enough to the changes in the route I see ahead of me, so my ears and neck take a beating. I can't go upside down or vertical at all, I get sick.

I will still ride the Beast at Kings Island. I've been riding it over 40 years now, and I know the route with my eyes closed. The surge into the double tunnels still thrills me.

At 46 I took my nieces on a rollercoaster ride at Magic Mountain. The next day I could not get out of bed. I felt like I had been in a car crash.

If your balls hang THIS LOW, you are too old to ride.

I'm 64, fat, female and still riding the coasters, but I stopped doing the spinning rides in my 40s as they are too nauseating.

My problem these days is the long drive to and back from the park, and I also can't drive at night anymore (until I get my cataracts done).

I mainly go to Kings Island and Cedar Point. I love riding the Millennium Force at sundown and at night. The view from the lift hill is just beautiful on the lake side of the ride.

At around age thirty I could not ride a roller coaster without afterwards feeling like I’d been kicked in the head.

[quote]I mainly go to Kings Island and Cedar Point.

I didn't think it could get worse than being 64, fat, and female, but you also live in Ohio, so....

@R27, Yeah, I know.

I have to take 2 Dramamine to ride coasters now or I get severely queasy.

I'm 45 but it has been like this for well over 20 years now.

I actually worked at Magic Mountain when I was 19-21 and would ride coasters sometimes 6 or 7 times in a row. We had employee after hours parties. Then one day it just kicked in with the motion sickness and I've never been the same since.

Last time I went to Six Flags (2017, I think) I knew it was my last time. Rode a couple fine - and boom - felt like I was gonna puke. Couldn’t recover from the nausea and then was cajoled/bullied into riding this fucking monster of a coaster before we left. As I saw the skyline of Atlanta in the distance - I knew I had made a huge mistake. I couldn’t keep my back or head against the fucking seat. My back was completely fucked up for at least three days. I was 34 and realized I was done with rollercoasters.

[quote] I have to take 2 Dramamine to ride coasters now or I get severely queasy.

Why on earth would you still ride them then?

I tried the roller coasters at Dollywood and they were great. A few years earlier I tried the ones at Canada's Wonderland. Granted, I had not been on a roller coaster in over a decade but I found it really rough that day. Maybe it was the weather (it was chilly) and my long absence from riding coasters, but I felt it in my bones. But the ones at Dollywood were much more manageable?

Maybe it depends on the amusement park and how they take care/run the equipment?

You are too old when you need adult undergarments like these. Or, maybe not?

I've had vertigo and my doctor warned me that rollercoasters or other rides might bring it back worse. No thanks. I'm old and fat and I'll hold everyone's stuff and sip a 12 dollar diet coke while they all ride. I'll wave to them when I'm not hitting my vape.

Doesn’t Dramamine make you go to sleep?

You must be this big to go on this ride.