El Toro (Spanish for The Bull) is a wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.

When it opened, El Toro had the steepest drop of any wooden roller coaster in the world at 76 degrees, a record that was later broken by T Express at Everland in 2008.

The coaster has been well-received, and with the exception of its first two years of operation, has consistently ranked in the top three of the annual Golden Ticket Awards publication from Amusement Today.

It was also announced El Toro would be part of a new themed area known as Plaza del Carnaval, which would also include the adjacent wooden racing coaster, Rolling Thunder.

[4] El Toro also sits partially on land once shared by Great Adventure's first wooden coaster, Rolling Thunder.

After coming out of the twister section, the train slows down as it moves through small "S" curve camelback hills and into the brake run.

[16] The trains have padded "wings" at shoulder level to prevent riders from being injured during moments of strong lateral forces.

El Toro is the first Intamin "Plug and Play" (Pre-Fab) wooden roller coaster in the United States and one of four in the world.

The other three are Colossos at Heide Park in Germany, Balder at Liseberg in Sweden, and T Express at Everland in South Korea.

[21] When El Toro debuted, it broke records as the second-tallest and fastest with the second-longest drop of a wooden roller coaster in the United States.

As of October 2023[update], El Toro is the third fastest wooden roller coaster in the world with a maximum speed of 70 mph (110 km/h).

[27] El Toro was closed for most of Six Flags Great Adventure's 2021 operating season,[28] pending the outcome of an investigation from Intamin.

"[28] Six Flags officials reported on August 30, 2022, that El Toro's safety systems were working properly and that the ride would reopen after it had been repaired.