Stampida is a racing wooden roller coaster at PortAventura Park in Salou and Vila-seca, Catalonia, Spain. Designed by John Wardley and Larry Bill, the ride opened in 1997 and was built by Custom Coasters International. The ride is located in the Far West section of the park, and is themed to a duel in wagons to claim land in the American frontier. Standing at a height of feet, Stampida features a 52-degree drop, reaching a top speed of . Each track measures in length and offers approximately one minute and forty seconds of ride time.
Stampida is a racing wooden roller coaster at PortAventura Park in Salou and Vila-seca, Catalonia, Spain. Designed by John Wardley and Larry Bill, the ride opened in 1997 and was built by Custom Coasters International. The ride is located in the Far West section of the park, and is themed to a duel in wagons to claim land in the American frontier. Standing at a height of feet, Stampida features a 52-degree drop, reaching a top speed of . Each track measures in length and offers approximately one minute and forty seconds of ride time.
== History == thumb|left|Stampida's KumbaK trains cresting one of the ride's hills Employed by The Tussauds Group who held a 40.01% share of PortAventura Park, theme park designer John Wardley had assisted in design of the park before its opening. As a second-phase expansion, Wardley suggested a racing wooden roller coaster, in part due to its high guest engagement both on and off of the ride. To make the ride more unique, he included in the design of the layout a section in which each track entered a tunnel before splitting apart, then approaching each other head-on to create a near miss effect. Wardley designed the ride in conjunction with Larry Bill from Custom Coasters International (CCI), the roller coaster manufacturer who was hired to create the coaster. Wardley had worked with CCI in the past for Oakwood Theme Park's Megafobia wooden coaster. Stampida is one of only two dual-tracked roller coasters built by CCI (the other being the now-defunct Twisted Twins at Kentucky Kingdom). Stampida originally featured two-across, twelve-car trains with two rows per car built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters (PTC) which featured an individual mechanical lap bar for each seat, allowing a maximum theoretical capacity of 2,500 riders per hour. In contrast to the , Stampida, Tomahawk, another wooden roller coaster built by CCI, was placed next to Stampida as smaller, single-tracked coaster aimed at a younger audience. Tomahawk's layout runs next to Stampida's tracks, interacting at several points. Both Stampida and Tomahawk officially opened on 17 March 1997.
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