What is "skyride"

Skyride is a transportation attraction at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. It carries passengers from the Crown Colony section of the park to the Stanleyville section or vice versa. During this experience, passengers get a bird's-eye view of several attractions at the park.

The ride consists of a single continuous cable, held up by evenly dispersed supports. From this moving cable, dozens of cabins hang, each one carrying up to four passengers (or 680 pounds). These are open cabins with four seats (two rows of two, facing each other). At each station (one at Crown Colony, one at Stanleyville), a large wheel with a pulley-like groove rotates the direction in which the cable is moving. Incoming cabins are transferred from the moving cable to a stationary steel track, along which the wheels of each cabin glide. They are brought to a stop by two park employees. While one holds the vehicle in place, the other opens the cabin door as the passengers exit. The door is then closed and the vehicle is thrust around the turn. On the other side of the large wheel, another employee re-opens the door and new passengers enter the cabin. The door is re-locked and the cabin is pushed hard enough to transfer it from the steel track to the moving cable. Once on the cable, the wheels above each cabin are not used, but the cable transporting it rests within a slot between the wheels.

The ride was manufactured by Von Roll of Berne, Switzerland and opened at the park in 1974. The Skyride needed to be closed beginning in 2010 to build the Cheetah Hunt roller coaster, which opened May 27, 2011.

Skyride is one of the few remaining dual gondola lifts in the world located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. The Skyride carries passengers on a 1/3 mile, four-minute trip from the Fantasy Forest section of the park to the Frontier Adventures section, or vice versa. Just about any park guest can ride as anybody under in height (including children and infants who cannot sit up by themselves) may ride accompanied by a responsible adult. The Skyride is one of only four rides in the park (along with the Carousel, Big Wheel, and Safari Off Road Adventure) that allows cameras to be taken and used on the ride.

Skyride or Sky Ride may refer to:

• Skyride (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay), an aerial lift at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Tampa, Florida, United States
• Skyride, an aerial lift at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, James City County, Virginia, United States
• Skyride, a defunct aerial lift at Kings Island, Mason, Ohio, United States,
• Skyride (Six Flags Great Adventure), an aerial lift at Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson Township, New Jersey, United States
• Skyride, an aerial lift at Stone Mountain, Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
• Skyride, an official nickname at Katsuragiyama Ropeway, Izunokuni, Shizuoka, Japan
• Skyride, an aerial lift at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
• Sky Ride, an aerial lift at Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio

• Sky Ride, a transporter bridge in Chicago, United States
• skyRide, an airport express bus service by TheRide to Denver International Airport, United States
• New York Skyride, a simulator ride at the Empire State Building, New York City, United States
• Skyride, a chairlift of Sentosa Luge, Singapore
• Skyride Unlimited, a company owning KAXL radio station of the Bakersfield, California, United States
• Mayor of London's Sky Ride, an annual cycling event in London