Ride Types

A list of the rides in their respective classification can be found in the category bar at the bottom of the article.

Transport Rides
These slow-paced people-movers include miniature trains, monorails, and chairlifts. You can (and are sometimes required to) build multiple stations as destination points. Use transport rides to give guests a scenic view of your park attractions while ferrying them from one location to another. These are especially useful on large parks, as guests get tired and cranky after walking for too long.

Gentle Rides
These low- and no-thrill rides are suitable for all guests (especially children). The Ferris Wheel and merry-go-round are examples of gentle rides. Most gentle rides do not involve custom design and tend to take up less space than more intense attractions. Guests frequently ride gentle rides after riding a high-thrill ride, such as a roller coaster, or a thrill ride.

Roller Coasters
These are the big draws of any successful park. Depending on your scenario and research, you could have access to many types of coaster technlogies designed to twist the lunch from your brave guests' guts. Most guests prefer roller coasters over all other ride types.

There is at least one standard design available for every type of roller coaster. Hold your cursor over a design name to see its statistics and what it looks like. Other ride types, including some gentle rides and water rides, also work this way.

Thrill Rides
These fill the intermediate range in intensity between mild rides and roller coasters. This catergory can include the kind of swinging and spinning belly-churners found at your average county fair. Most take up small amounts of space, like the gentle rides, which make them useful for crowded areas that do not have nearby roller coasters.

Water Rides
Especially in a hot climate, there is nothing better than a ride that gets your guests all wet. Water rides include everything from rented rowboats to water slides and high velocity H20 coasters.

Shops and Stalls
Your park will need a number of non-ride facilities, including food stalls, souvenir shops, information booths and, of course, restrooms. These keep your guests happy, by maintaining their happiness, hunger, thirst, and bathroom levels.

Junior Rides
Note: RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 only. These rides are similar to Gentle Rides, however they appeal to the younger peeps that appear in your park. Various rides that were considered Gentle in the previous two games may be considered Junior Rides in the third installment.

Pool Slides and Rides
''Note: RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Soaked! only.'' This can be thought of as an extension of the Water Rides category. Filling a similar niche, most of these rides are used to launch guests into one of the pools in a pool complex. These are usually single-or-double-seater rides, and they must be connected to a pool complex by means of a staircase for peeps to be able to use them.

Other Rides
Note: RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 only. This category is composed of rides that do not fit into any of the other categories. Composed entirely of custom-track rides, every ride from this category fit into one of the categories in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2; they have just been replaced.