Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom’s new Coaster: Iron Menace
Project Information
Dorney Park Iron Menace
Isett has been working with Dorney park for nearly three decades, providing engineering and consulting services as management retools the park each season with new features, rides, and upgrades. All innovations are confined within the boundaries of the park’s 200 acres, which creates unique challenges to determine the ideal site and orientation for proposed new features.
When Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom reopens for the season in May 2024, visitors will have a chance to enjoy the northeast’s first dive coaster thanks in part to the team at Isett. Isett’s Civil Land Development, Survey, and Environmental Consulting team members had a key role in the project, providing preliminary site engineering, topographic survey, and a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) for the project. Isett’s Survey team visited the site in February 2024 for mid-construction drone photos, but the coaster is now completed and in the testing phase as of March 2024.
Dorney Park’s Iron Menace suspends riders 160 feet in the air before plummeting at a beyond-vertical, 95-degree drop and racing through four twisting inversions at speeds up to 64 miles per hour.
Services for other Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom projects include engineering design, consulting, and survey for new rides and facility upgrades. Isett has also provided structural inspection of rides during construction, as well as structural design services for selected projects, including gift shops, food service and restroom buildings, and ride foundations.
