[2] The park had been looking for a new roller coaster after Whirlwind was closed and shipped to Parque de Diversiones in Costa Rica in 2004.

Impulse replaced the Bumper Boats ride, which was purchased from Rocky Glen Park in Moosic, Pennsylvania in the 1980s.

The ride begins with the car making a right turn out of the station, before climbing up a vertical 98 ft (30m) lift hill.

Upon cresting the lift, the car immediately plummets down a 90 degree vertical drop (during which the on-ride photo is taken) into a cobra roll.

The vertical loop is followed by an elevated right turn passing over the entrance to the nearby Scenic Skyway, after which the car dives down into an upward counterclockwise helix which wraps around the lift hill.