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Castles N' Coasters
A 14-acre amusement park in Phoenix, built in 1976, with two roller coasters and four 18-hole miniature golf courses.
- Rank in Arizona
- #276of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 42.6 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Landmark
Castles N' Coasters is an amusement park and family amusement centre in Phoenix, Arizona, covering approximately 14 acres. It was built in 1976 and designed in a Middle Eastern motif, although other eras appear in individual attractions, among them a Wild West-themed miniature golf course and log flume ride. The park holds four outdoor 18-hole miniature golf courses, a go-kart track, bumper cars and bumper boats, two roller coasters named Patriot and Desert Storm, thrill rides including Magic Carpet, Sea Dragon, Free Fall and Sky Diver, a log flume called Splashdown, and a two-storey indoor video game arcade. It is the largest amusement park in Phoenix and the only one in the city with roller coasters.
Where it is
Castles N' Coasters is a landmark near Phoenix, in Maricopa County. It is one of the landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Castles N' Coasters, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.castlesncoasters.com(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Landmark
- Destination
- Phoenix
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 42.6 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 39.7
- Significance score
- 45.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- castlesncoasters.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.5733, -112.1184
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12