Sequoia Adventure

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Sequoia Adventure, later renamed Sequoia Magic Loop, was a steel inverted roller coaster at Gardaland in Italy. It was built by S&S – Sansei Technologies as a Screaming Squirrel model and opened on April 30, 2005. The ride stood 98.4 feet tall, lasted about 1 minute and 25 seconds, and featured three saxophone inversions where the train turned 180 degrees into inverted sections. Riders had to be at least 140 cm tall. There were three trains, each with a single car carrying four riders (2 across, 2 rows), and there was no single-rider line.

The ride began with a 180-degree right turn out of the station, climbed the lift hill, then passed through a sequence of straight sections and three saxophone inversions before returning to the station with a final 180-degree right turn.

In April 2017, the ride stopped while climbing a ramp about 30 meters above the ground; a family of four Israeli passengers was rescued by staff. Sequoia Adventure closed due to mechanical issues and was planned to reopen in 2018 as Sequoia Magic Loop with a magic theme. It closed again in 2021 and remained non-operational in 2022, and was removed in January 2023.