Stateline Casino Nevada Roller Coaster
Desperado Buffalo Bill's Casino Primm, (Stateline) NV This one will knock you on your butt. This is a steel coaster. The highlights are the first drop is over 200 feet, and reaches speeds of nearly 90 mph. Canyon Blaster Circus-Circus Casino Las Vegas, NV Its pink. It's way to short. The Middle of Nowhere Is Now Somewhere The Desperado is the centerpiece of the Primm Valley Casino Resorts in Primm, Nevada, about 45 minutes from Las Vegas. Gary Primm, the casino's founder, placed a Ferris wheel in front of his building in the early 80s to capture the attention of some of the millions of Vegas-bound travelers.
DISCOVER PRIMM, NEVADA
Primm, Nevada is an unincorporated community of Clark County on the California border. It is located forty miles south of Las Vegas on heavily traveled Interstate 15, which is the primary connection route between Las Vegas and Southern California.
While many travelers simply pass through Primm, it has many great attractions that make it well worth a visit!
Primm, which is also known as Primm Valley, has three large casinos that rise from the desert at the entrance to Southern Nevada. Primm also has a large outlet shopping mall, The Fashion Outlets of Las Vegas, gas stations, a Tesla supercharger station, convenience stores, and restaurants.
Other activities in Primm include: two championship caliber golf courses, a 6,500 seat concert arena, Bonnie and Clyde's death car, and the Lotto Store.
GATEWAY TO SOUTHERN NEVADA
Primm is located in the central part of the Mojave Desert at an elevation of about 2,600 feet. It sits near the northern edge of the Ivanpah Dry Lake Bed in the Ivanpah Valley.
The valley has mountain ridges on the west and east sides that rise more than 3,000 feet above the valley floor. A gas station was built in the area in the 1920’s and it became known as Stateline.
However, there was also a Stateline in western Nevada on the southern shoreline of Lake Tahoe at the California border. To avoid confusion, the community was renamed to Primm in 1996, named after casino owner Ernest Jay Primm.
In 2004, an apartment building called the Desert Oasis was constructed in Primm to serve as housing for employees of the three large casinos in the community.
Primm currently has a population of about one thousand residents. There is no housing in Jean. Housing in the Las Vegas area starts about 30 miles to the north of Primm.
A Welcome Stop For Californians
Primm is a popular stop for visitors coming from California. The casinos in the community are the first stop for gamblers entering Nevada before Las Vegas or a last stop before returning to California.
Primm’s gas stations and restaurants provide a needed stop for services in the otherwise barren high desert terrain.
There is also a convenience store on the California side of the border, which sells California State Lottery tickets, making it very popular with Southern Nevada residents. Lottery tickets are not sold in Nevada.
Make sure to stop in Primm for a visit!
Stateline Casino Nevada Roller Coaster Ride
| Desperado | |
|---|---|
| Primm Valley Resorts | |
| Location | Primm Valley Resorts |
| Park section | Old Western Times |
| Coordinates | 35°36′51″N115°23′04″W / 35.61417°N 115.38444°WCoordinates: 35°36′51″N115°23′04″W / 35.61417°N 115.38444°W |
| Status | Closed |
| Opening date | August 11, 1994[1] |
| Cost | $30,000,000 |
| General statistics | |
| Type | Steel |
| Manufacturer | Arrow Dynamics |
| Designer | Ron Toomer |
| Model | Hypercoaster |
| Track layout | Ron Toomer |
| Lift/launch system | Chain |
| Height | 209 ft (64 m) |
| Drop | 225 ft (69 m) |
| Length | 5,843 ft (1,781 m) |
| Speed | 80 mph (130 km/h) |
| Inversions | 0 |
| Duration | 2:43 |
| Max vertical angle | 60° |
| Capacity | 900 riders per hour |
| G-force | 4 |
| Height restriction | 52 in (132 cm) |
| Trains | 3 trains with 5 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 3 rows for a total of 30 riders per train. |
| Desperado at RCDB Pictures of Desperado at RCDB | |
Desperado was a hypercoaster that was located in Primm, Nevada, United States at the Buffalo Bill's Hotel and Casino, a part of the Primm Valley Resorts complex. As of February 2020, Desperado is closed with no plans of operating in the future.[2]
According to the Roller Coaster DataBase, Desperado was one of the tallest roller coasters in the world when it opened. It features a 225-foot (69 m) drop at an angle of 60 degrees, a 209-foot (64 m) lift hill, and a maximum speed of 80 mph (130 km/h). Riders also experience up to 4 g's during the ride which lasts two minutes and forty-three seconds.[3] A portion of the ride runs through the interior of the casino. The coaster was listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's tallest roller coaster in 1996.[4] The ride was provided by Arrow Dynamics and fabricated by Intermountain Lift, Inc.[5]
History[edit]
Looking to attract people driving by on adjacent Interstate 15 to his new casino, Buffalo Bill's, which opened on May 14, 1994, Gary Primm contracted Arrow Dynamics to build a highly visible roller coaster. The roller coaster opened to the public on August 11, 1994, as one of the tallest and fastest roller coasters in the world. The ride's 209-foot-tall (64 m) lift hill was the tallest in the United States, second behind only the Pepsi Max Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in England that opened the same year. Its drop length of 225 feet (69 m) and top speed of 80 mph (130 km/h) were tied in the country with Kennywood's Steel Phantom, which also featured a 225-foot (69 m) drop and top speed of 80 mph (130 km/h). The Guinness Book of World Records recognized Desperado in its 1996 publication as the tallest roller coaster in the world.[4]
For his Top Secret special that first aired on February 24, 1999, magician Lance Burton staged a death-defying escape in a stunt where he was tied to the roller coaster's track and had to break out of handcuffs in order to escape.[6]
References[edit]
- ^Palermo, Dave (August 7, 1994). 'PRIMM SPRUCING UP CALIFORNIA-NEVADA BORDER'. Las Vegas Review-Journal/Sun.
- ^Ventura, Leslie (February 13, 2020). 'Has Primm's Desperado roller coaster made its final descent?'. Las Vegas Weekly. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^Marden, Duane. ' (Primm Valley Resorts)'. Roller Coaster DataBase.
- ^ ab'Desperado Roller Coaster Fact Sheet'. Primm Valley Casino Resorts. August 13, 2001. Archived from the original on March 24, 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-13.
- ^'Amusement'. Intermountain Lift, Inc. July 30, 2011. Archived from the original on November 8, 2014. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^'Lance Burton's Escape On The Desperado To Air Next Wednesday'. Retrieved 2007-04-18.
