Great places to live.

I'm 20 minutes from Knoebels

1hr 15 min from Hershey

1 1/2 min from Dorney

3 hours from SFGAdv, SFA, Lakemont Park

4 hours from Lake Compounce

4 1/2 from Kennywood

not too bad of a location

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Knoebels visits in 2002. 4

In northern san diego county i'm 10 minutes from legoland, 20 minutes from sea world, 45 minutes from dl, 45 minutes from DCA, 50 minutes from Knotts, 1 hour 40 minutes from USH, and 2 hours away from SFMM.

I grew up north of Pittsburgh so Kennywood, Conneaut, Geauga Lake and CP were regular stops as a kid.

Now I live in Allentown:

under 5 miles to Dorney
about an hour to Hersheypark & Dutch Wonderland
around 1 1/2 hours to Knobels, Coney Island and SFGAdv
2 hours (give or take) to the Jersey Shore piers and Morey's
Lots of smaller parks in the region too (Bushkill, Sesame Place, etc)

Between the two we live in Jacksonville:

1 1/2 hours to Orlando parks or Wild Adventures

Now if I'd just move to SoCal I'd have all the major park areas all under my belt ;)

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Dorney Park visits in 2002: 13

I live in Michigan, northern Wayne County, so I'm 2 hours from CP, 3 hours from Michigan's Adventure, 3 hours from SFWoA and 4 hours from PKI. I consider CP my home park.

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I'd rather die living than live like I'm dead

I live just west of Washington D.C., so here's my list of "close parks":

SFA - 1 hour
PKD - 2 hours
Hershey - 2 hours
BGW - 3 hours
Dorney - 3 hours
Knoebels - 3 hours
Lakemont and Idlewild - I think 3 hours (never been to)
SFGadv - 3.5 hours
Kennywood - 4 hours
Coney Island - 4.5 hours (near my wife's family so I go to CI when we visit)
CP - 8 hours

I'm pretty lucky to be able to get to so many parks easily.

Zimm
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1:30 from Canobie Lake Park

2:00 from Lake Compounce

2:30 from SFNE

6:00 from SFGAdv

Not a good place to live at all

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S:RoS ( SFNE ) is #1!

I think Columbus, OH is a great location as far as parks go. All of the Ohio parks are within a few hours, and so is KW, SFKK. Parks within a 8 hour drive more than double this by getting you to St. Louis, Chicago, all the Indiana parks, MiA, PA parks and the one located in WV. I've still to hit many of these parks since I'm relatively new to central Ohio, but I'm not worried.

On a similar topic, the places that I most want to live in the U.S. are all terrible places to live as far as coasters are concerned. I love the Pacific Northwest and plan on moving back there someday. Hopefully by the time I get back SF will have worked wonders (no laughing) on their park up there and I hope the Great Northwest Themepark becomes a reality, and Oak's park can sure use a CCI beauty.

Northern VA is a pretty good place to live if you like parks,I've got SFA.PKD and BGW to go to and each of these parks have a well rounded selection of flats and coasters to choose from.

As well as the 3 parks listed there's also HP and maybe even Dorney as well as Kennywood to visit as well so all in all the N.VA area is a pretty good place to reside if you love parks and coasters.

PKI is my home park but i take 2 visits a year up 2 CP. It is about a 4 hour drive.

15 minutes to PKI or LL (home parks even though I haven't been to LL yet)

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Can we change the name of Top Gun to your mom so no one wants to ride your mom?

SWIMDEJ said:
I live 40 minutes from SFWOA, 1 hour and 1/2 from Kennywood, 2 from CP, and 4 from PKI.
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mmm, roller coaster
(Homer Simpson)

Same for me (I live in the same town as him) But even if "I lived 3000 miles from CP I could still call it my home. I love that place.

SFoG - 2 Hours

Jazzland - 5 hours

SFKK - 5.5 hours

It could always be worse...

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I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'cause every tool is a weapon, if you hold it right. -Ani Difranco

Valleyfair: 20minutes away, home park.

(1) Big Chief: 5hrs, (2) Six Flags Great America 7hours, (3) Indiana Beach 10hrs, (4) Holiday World 19hrs, (5) Cedar Point 12hrs, (6) 6Flags WoA 13hrs, (7) Kings Island 17hrs, (8) Shivering Timbers 8hrs and the winner is (9) Dorney Park 22hrs ;).

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Valleyfair Security 2002! 8Years working at Valleyfair :)! What does LOL stand for?, lol...

I live in upper NJ. 1hour45min from SFgadv 1hour30min from Dorney 7hours from Cedar Point 6 hours from PKD 7 hours from BGW 2 hours from Knoebels 3 hours from Moreys Piers 2 hours from rye 1hour 30 min from coney island 6 hours from SFwoa and lots more. I live in a good spot but everything is a fair amount of drive but there is lots

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-Sean Newman
84 coasters in Track Record!! Hypersonic XLC # 100 in July. Waiting for the 305 foot drop tower in 2003. Thank you PKD.

For me...

CP - 1 hr
SFWoA - 45 min max
PKI - 3.5 to 4 hrs
SFDL - 4 hrs
PCW and SFGAm - 6 hrs
Kennywood - 2 hrs
Michigan's Adventure - 5 hrs

And 9 hours to my favorite - BGW

X Factor

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East Bay Area, CA (just south of Oakland):

30 mins to Great America

45 mins to Marine World

45 mins to Bonfante Gardens

1 hour to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

4.5 hours to Magic Mountain

6 hours to Disneyland, Knott's

Sorry, but I think I live in the best place on Earth. Near Toronto, Ontario in a city that is not too big not too small. 1 hour from PCW, and 2.5 from Six Flags, 6 hours from Cedar Point, but that's not why I live in the best place.. I love Canada, its awesome the beer is good, the people are great, and the ladies are even better! Sorry to be patriotic on a mostly American site (its true) But I feel like typing this! SUE ME! ;)

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I AM CANADIAN
My favourite Coaster-Site: http://www.brewerianazone.com/page14.html

coo man chu, it's great to be patriotic and Canada is a great place to.

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The worst day at Cedar Point is better than the best day at work.

Speedy said:
"In northern san diego county i'm 10 minutes from legoland, 20 minutes from sea world, 45 minutes from dl, 45 minutes from DCA, 50 minutes from Knotts, 1 hour 40 minutes from USH, and 2 hours away from SFMM."

hey speedy where do you live? I live in escondido
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"It was sure nice of Mr. Krabs to give me a job here!" "And at $50 an hour too! When I started, i had to pay Mr. Krabs $100 an hour!"

i live exactly 58 minutes from thorpe park, england which has colossus, the most looping roller coaster in the world. i think thats quite lucky!
i am also an hour from chessington world of adventures, about 4 hours from alton towers about no more than 4 hours away from almost every other great park in the UK.