Empty parks! Your best advice for when to find em?

I went to Carowinds two Saturdays ago and my friend and I waited about an hour for some rides. It was the Music in the Parks day. But I normally try to attend ANY park on a tuesday, wednesday, or Thursday. Those days seem to have the least amount of people in them. But weather does count in there too. I am still in school so its not like I can just get up and walk out.

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Coaster M and M
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Charles Nungester said:

Im a woodie freak and plan my trips accordingly. I am so looking forward to Timbers again, Boss, Timberwolf, VIper, Mamba and of course legend and Raven

Chuck, who will have done HW only two weeks prior but thats a park I cannot get enough of. See you soon

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Charles Nungester
Americana (Now called The great americana amusement park at Lesourdsville Lake) is opening in 2002. Indivdual visits are very improtant to the parks survival.

*** This post was edited by Charles Nungester on 5/8/2002. ***

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Hmm I didn't know The Viper and THe Mamba were woodies. I ride mamba all the time and the most close pice of wood is on the Mamba photo booth.

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Chris Knight
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That's not roughness that intensity

Actually, you're right in a way, GregLeg. When I took my trip to UO/IOA last month, we went for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Saturday was a mob scene, of course. Sunday was just a little less crowded. But Monday, at least for the first couple of hours that the park was opened, we felt like we had the whole place to ourselves! It was kind of funny walking across the bridge in front of the drop for Ripsaw Falls and seeing one empty log after another coming down the chute. :)

This is what I was told by a Florida resident during my March 2001 trip. Never go to the Universal/Busch parks on the weekend days (Sat, Sun). They have those "fun card" promotions so that all the locals hit the parks on the weekends. Consequently, most locals are *not* at the Disney parks, so there you will only be fighting other tourists. Then hit the Universal/Busch parks during the week and again your only competition willbe other tourists.

Now, I had planned on going to Sea World on Sunday and like Epcot on Monday. Based on this advice, I switched my plans. I faced ZERO crowds at either park. It was so empty driving up to the Epcot lot I wondered was the park closed :)

BTW: The 3rd of July is a decent time to visit SFGAm as many folks will be heading Downtown for the Taste and the Fireworks show.
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The week of June 10th is like the ultimate SFNE week. Last year I went and the only people there were college kids and school peeps who skipped. It's awesome. I get out the 6th and I am going the 10th this year, I can't wait. Last year the longest line I waited during that day was 1 hour for SRoS, 15 minutes to open the ride, 5 minutes to clean it after someone puked, 10 minutes normal line, and 30 minutes front row. This was right when I got there, at like 10 o'clock. The rest of the day we would cut under all the queues and go right up the stairs and it would be a station wait. I got in 5 rides in on SRoS, along with 2 cyclone rides, 1 mind eraser, 3 scream (20 minutes), 2 tbolt and a lot of flat rides. We left at 3. This year I'm just gonna ride BDK and SRoS and maybe some flatties, and I wanna stay till at least 6, so I'll get TONS of rides.

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