This year is already shaping up as a good one for roller coaster enthusiasts, thrill ride junkies and theme park fans in the United States.

Consider our Top 10 for 2026 an evolving and ever-changing list of the best new rides and attractions coming to U.S. theme parks.

Many parks have already begun construction on projects while others have only announced plans or launched teaser campaigns.

We’ll update our Top 10 as new rides and attractions are unveiled and more details become available.

Universal Kids: The new Universal theme park aimed at families with young children will boast lands dedicated to DreamWorks, Nickelodeon and Illumination film franchises when the Texas kiddie land opens this year.

The 97-acre Universal Kids resort will be home to a theme park and themed hotel, with space set aside for future expansion.

Universal Kids will feature seven themed lands: Shrek’s Swamp, Jurassic World Adventure Camp, SpongeBob SquarePants Bikini Bottom, Minions vs. Minions: Bello Bay Club, TrollsFest, Puss in Boots Del Mar and the Isle of Curiosity.

Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift: The new coaster coming to Universal Studios Hollywood will have 360-degree rotating vehicles designed to look like drifting race cars from the street racing film franchise that has earned $7 billion at the worldwide box office.

Coaster trains with four street racing cars will rocket from zero to 72 mph along the 4,100-foot track.

Riders will drift and spin in a replica of Dominic Toretto’s 1970 Dodge Charger as they ride in the new launch coaster coming to the upper lot of the Hollywood theme park.

NightFlight Expedition: The storyline of the first-of-its-kind attraction coming to Dollywood will take riders into the Great Smoky Mountains on a soaring nighttime flight that turns into a roller coaster ride and then a whitewater rafting excursion before concluding with a mysterious dark ride across a shimmering lake. The $50 million ride marks the largest single attraction investment in Dollywood’s history.

The hybrid roller coaster/whitewater river rapids ride will be the first rocking boat ride in the United States built by Germany’s Mack.

SeaQuest: Legends of the Deep: The first-of-its-kind ride coming to SeaWorld Orlando will take riders under the sea in a three-person submersible vehicle to explore sunken shipwrecks brimming with sharks, stingrays, jellyfish and other extraordinary sea creatures. It will be the world’s first suspended dark ride from the Netherlands-based Vekoma.

The indoor ride will feature a submarinelike vehicle suspended from an overhead track that will swing and rotate through a series of themed environments.

The backstory for SeaQuest will involve a deep sea exploration of glowing undersea worlds filled with awe, wonder and adventure.

Tormenta Rampaging Run: This will claim the title of world’s tallest, longest and fastest dive coaster when it debuts at Six Flags Over Texas.

Tormenta will become the world’s first giga dive coaster — combining a 300-foot-plus height (giga) with a beyond vertical drop (dive) to create a new ride category.

The coaster by Switzerland-based Bolliger & Mabillard will be themed to Spain’s tradition of the running of the bulls.

Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare: The classic dark ride set in a haunted theater on a dark and stormy night will return to Ohio’s Kings Island with a cast of familiar characters, a new storyline involving the Maestro’s famed pipe organ and a little interactive game play to avert disaster on opening night.

Florida-based Sally Dark Rides’ attraction will have 26 scenes with animatronic figures, hidden “Easter eggs” and sound and wind effects.

Riders in enchanted opera boxes will use interactive flashlights to collect “ghost notes” released from the organ during a lightning strike.

Soarin’ Across America: The new films coming to the venerable flight simulator rides at Disney California Adventure and Epcot will debut just in time for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States.

“Soarin’ Across America” will be filmed at 33 locations across the United States, with the new scenes capturing a bird’s-eye view of the “scenic wonders, amazing cities and the beauty of the coasts” in a celebration of America’s diversity and grandeur.

Walt Disney Imagineering will use advanced cameras and lenses mounted on helicopters and drones to capture the new aerial footage.

Also in 2026: Disneyland will update Millennium Falcon Smuggler’s Run with a new adventure starring Mandalorian and Grogu, while the Fantasyland Theatre will launch musical comedy show “Bluey’s Best Day Ever.”

Barracuda Strike: The $8.8 million inverted coaster by Bolliger & Mabillard will glide above SeaWorld San Antonio’s water ski lake.

Riders will hit a top speed of 44 mph aboard coaster trains suspended beneath the 1,800-foot track.

Quantum Accelerator: This straddle coaster by Switzerland-based Intamin will blur the line between family-friendly and extreme thrills with a ride aimed squarely at tweens looking for the next level of excitement.

The dual-launch coaster coming to Six Flags New England will reach a top speed of 45 mph, with a tire-propelled boost in the middle of the 2,600-foot track with 11 airtime hills.

The backstory for Quantum Accelerator turns the coaster into a steampunk-style time machine created by Professor Screamore.

Galacticoaster: Aspiring young astronauts will design their own spaceships and train for an intergalactic mission into the Lego Galaxy aboard the new outer space-themed indoor coasters coming to Legoland California and Legoland Florida.

The first-of-their-kind Galacticoaster indoor rides built by ART Engineering of Germany will each travel along 1,500-foot tracks enclosed inside 30,000-square-foot “spaceport” buildings.

In the coasters’ narrative, riders will blast off on an exploratory mission into the uncharted Lego Galaxy in custom Lego spacecraft, where they will pass through cosmic scenes and meet other intergalactic travelers.