Gröna Lund
Stockholm, Sweden
The city of Stockholm sits on fourteen islands, and Djurgården Island is home to museums, monuments, galleries,
historic buildings, public gardens, and the Gröna Lund amusement park. Gröna Lund, which translates to
The Green Grove, is tightly packed into 15 acres right on the Saltsjön Bay waterfront. The park started when Jacob Schultheiss
began putting amusements there in 1883. His family owned the park until it was sold in 2001 to Parks & Resorts Scandinavia AB, a Swedish company that operates a
handful of parks and zoos. Over 30 attractions are now crammed into this limited space. They range from historic rides like the 1935 Blå Tåget
(Blue Train) ghost train, the 1883 Circus Carousel, and the amazingly entertaining 1917 Lustiga Huset (Fun House), to modern rides like the 122-meter (400-foot) tall
Eclipse StarFlyer swings, the Katapulten (Catapult) Shot and Drop Tower, and some
fantastic roller coasters that are interwoven among themselves and other rides.
Six coasters have left Gröna Lund:
- Berg och dalbanan, also known as Bergbana and Tornbana, (1931-1965) was a side friction wooden coaster.
- Bobsleighbanan (1934) was a figure-8 wooden coaster that was at the park for just one year.
- Jet Star II (1982-1983) was a Schwarzkopf Jet Star model.
- Jetline, briefly known as Berg- och Dalbanan, (1988-2023) was a custom Schwarzkopf steel coaster that had a fatal accident in June 2023. See pictures below for details.
- Radar (1982-1983) was a Schwarzkopf Wildcat model. It ran at the Swedish Ölands Djur & Nöjespark park from 1981 to 2008.
- Thriller (1996) was a looping Schwarzkopf coaster with four inversions. The ride originally opened in 1986 and traveled around German fairs for a decade. It also operated from 1998 to 2000 as Texas Tornado at Six Flags AstroWorld and from 2003 to 2004 as Zonga at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. From 2008 until 2013, the ride operated as Tsunami at Isla San Marcos Parque Temático in Mexico.
Videos
Insane
(formerly Tele2 Insane)
Jetline
(formerly Berg- och Dalbanan)
Kvasten
