Playland's Castaway Cove
Playland's Castaway Cove is an amusement park situated on a pier, in Ocean City, New Jersey, United States. The pier opened in 1959 and features 28 ride and attractions, including 4 roller coasters.Attractions
Current attractions
Kiddie rides
- Beach Buggies – Dune buggy tracked ride
- Helicopters – Classic helicopter ride
- Magic Ring – A Motorcycle-themed carousel ride
- Pirates Gold Rush – An E&F Miler Industries kiddie roller coaster
- Speedway – A Car-themed track ride
Family rides
- Buccaneer – A pirate ship ride
- Bumper Cars – A classic bumper cars ride featuring music and special-effect lighting
- Carousel - A carousel ride with horses and a few menagerie animals
- Classic Train - A classic train ride
- Ferris Wheel – A Ferris wheel ride
- Go-Kart Speedway – Single and double passenger go-kart vehicles that travel up to 14 mph
- Happy Swing – A happy swing ride
- High Seas Log Flume – A log flume ride
- Hot Air Balloons – A balloon ride
- Hurricane – Horizontal platform ride that elevates and descends quickly as it rotates vertically
- Kite Flyer – A kite flyer ride
- Raiders Ark – Pirate-themed maze with ropes, bridges, and a slide
- Scream Machine – A family drop tower
- Super Slide - A giant slide ride
- Surf Shack – Surfer-themed funhouse obstacle course
- Swings – A tilting swing ride that swings riders in a circle as they elevate and descend
- Tidal Wave – Bouncing family ride
- Tilt-A-Whirl – Classic Tilt-A-Whirl platform ride
- Whirlwind – a spinning family coaster
- Wild Waves – an E&F Miler Industries family roller coaster
Thrill rides
- Air Race – Airplane-themed attraction in which riders experience up to 3 G's during loops and dives that reach heights of 25 feet
- Alien Abduction – enclosed spinning ride
- Double Shot – Drop tower ride that shoots riders 125 feet into the air at 45 mph producing both positive and negative g-force
- Extreme Cyclone – Pendulum type of ride that makes a 360-degree revolution
- GaleForce – an S&S Worldwide multi-launch roller coaster
- Storm – A rocking thrill ride
- Squadron 33 – A spinning thrill ride
Former attractions
- Python – a Pinfari ZL42 that operated from 1996 to 2015. Was removed to make way for GaleForce and Wild Waves.
- Flitzer – a Zierer Flitzer that operated from 1994 to 2015. Was removed to make way for GaleForce and Wild Waves.
