Short in stature, but standing above all else.

Meet “Gold Rush,” now one of the world’s highest elevated roller coasters located in Estes Park.

The Colorado mountain town is known for its beautiful snowcapped mountains, historic monuments, hiking, wildlife, shopping, good food and as the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park.

Estes Park isn’t necessarily hailed for having a near six-decade old amusement park.

But since 1969, there’s been the memories of Fun City, located just a few blocks south of the bustling Estes Park shopping corridor of Elkhorn Avenue.

Through zoning and development controversy, Lynn Kinnie, Fun City’s founder, still envisioned a mixed use residential, commercial, and recreational development that included amusement park rides, according to an Estes Valley Voice article published in April.

The article shared that since Kinnie’s death in 2006, he passed the business on to his son, Lon, who then sold off the park to Greg Davis and Kevin Braun in 2017 before Lon died in 2018.

Today, Fun City features mini golf, slides, go karts and a gel blaster arena.

In late June, Fun City opened its newest attraction, a roughly 20-foot tall spinning-style Gold Rush roller coaster. At about 7,550 feet above sea level, the coaster takes the crown for “highest elevated roller coaster” in North America, according to Fun City officials.

“It’s here, and it’s awesome,” Fun City officials said advertising the ride on its website. “Our Gold Rush spinning coaster is now North America’s highest roller coaster.”

That’s not to be confused for roller coasters like the 420-foot tall Top Thrill 2, formerly Top Thrill Dragster, at Ohio’s Cedar Point – now North America’s tallest operating roller coaster.

Manufactured by SBF Visa Group, Fun City’s new family-oriented coaster spins riders along a figure-eight layout. The layout begins with a booster wheel lift hill and drops into a left-turn helix back to the station for several laps – all while spinning.

Anyone can experience the attraction for $10.

Fun City’s newest installment steals the “highest elevated roller coaster” honor away from fellow western Colorado amusement park Glenwood Caverns.

Located in Glenwood Springs, the “Cliffhanger Roller Coaster” was the highest coaster at 7,160 feet. The cliff-side coaster appears high in the sky, as it sits atop Iron Mountain, roughly 1,450 feet above the Colorado River along Interstate 70.

On its website, Glenwood Caverns officials now advertise Cliffhanger as “the highest elevation, full-sized Roller Coaster in North America.”

It isn’t necessarily certain in online databases what roller coaster, if operational, holds the current world record for highest elevated roller coaster.

But for now, at the quaint Colorado mountain town, a ride on the small Gold Rush roller coaster also means something bigger.