How far was your longest drive to coast.

the farthest ive been for just a day trip is from Richmond VA to Hersheypark...about 200+ miles, or about 4 and a half hours each way....the farthest ive been is SFGAdv, but i was stayin in Cape May NJ on vacation :) thats bout 6 hours drive orabout 300 miles from VA :)
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ROLLERCOASTERS....BETTER THAN OXYGEN BABY!!!!!!

Mine would have to go to Cedarpoint from Nyc which was about 9 1/2 hrs and it was night time and my dad played his music the whole way.(oldies from like the 60"s) plus i had my sister with her feet on me the whole time.I thought i was crazy but it was well worth it when i was sitting in the MF train plumeting 300ft! but that wasw a two day trip fro a single day it had to be SFA from Nyc and that was about 3 1/2 hrs to 4hrs going then coming they closed a turnpikew somewhere and we had to detour the boondocks of maryland and P.a for a few hrs looking for gas n a bad rain storm. and it took 5hrs on the way back i wanted to kick myself in the ***!

15min. to Kennywood, I could get it down to about 12 though.;) Phantom's Revenge!!! Never been to any other park.
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Kennywood is my home park!!!

Well, I've flown cross country to get to parks in Virginia and Texas. The longest drive I've had is 6 hours up to Northern California. Next summer I plan to drive all the way to Cedar Point (am I out of my head?) hitting most parks along the way. I'm going to go broke or insane...whichever comes first :)

I was going to say PKI at 4 hours (8 round trip), but then I remembered Holiday World. That was 6 hours (12 round trip). Both of these were in one day each.

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Mayday - Memorial Day Weekend - Nonpoint, Nickelback, Oleander, Staind
Ozzfest - June 8 - Drowning Pool, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Disturbed, Black Sabbath
Awake Tour- June 15 - Darwin's Waiting Room, Puddle of Mudd, Deftones, Godsmack

I drove 5 hours from IL to Cedar Point this year.
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STAND BACK, THERES A HURRICANE COMING THROUGH!
My Top 5 Coasters:
1. Raging Bull 2.Millenium Force 3.V2 (SFGAm) 4.Viper (SFGAm) 5.Cornball Express/Raptor

Does deciding to drive from Indy to SFOG at 7:30 on a Friday night count. Our how about driving all night with one headlight across West Va, in the rain, to visit PKD, and get lost in Manassis, VA! I did both this year.

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94 coasters for 2001

Wabash Cannonball said:
I have to drive for 4 1/2 hours one way to get to Cedar Point. I just drove 3 hours to get to Stricker's Grove and on my way I started to feel like I was crazy, but I had a great time and it was definatly worth it. Anyway what was your longest drive just to ride some roller coasters only to head back home the same day?

From Hamilton, NJ - 19 hours to Busch Gardens Tampa, and 20.5 hours to Six Flags St. Louis, but it was not in one day. The longest "day trip" commutes I've taken is 10 1/2 hours round trip to Idlewild, 6 hours round trip to Lake Compounce, and a little over 8 hours round trip to Six Flags New England.

-Rob Vaccaro

1800 miles, Saint louis to SFMM. Of course that trip involved going for work, so technically I got paid to go to SFMM.
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Just a couple of G-force junkies!

Cedar Point, 8 hours
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Montu, God Of Coasters

Raging Bull, Don't Fight It, Ride It

Last week, I drove to Holiday World from Mundelein, IL. Almost 400mi on the dot, one way. It "only" took me 5.5hrs. Yes, I'm a speeder. ;)

We got there at 1pm and left at 9pm. Drove back home that night and got in at around 3:30am. It was so worth it for nighttime ERT on Legend!

I've also done SFStL (almost 380mi one way) and CP (about 340mi one way) in one day, along with Michigan's Adventure (4hr one way) and IB (2.5hr one way) .

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Nitro, Legend, and IOA. Is there anything better?

4+ hrs to travel 200 or so miles to kennywood.

That's not counting the 1,500 mile air plane ride from BWI to Orlando last march... but then again we went to visit family and not just "to coast".

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"I wasn't always this cynical, but then I started kindergarden..."

doesn't exactly fit the one-day drive criteria, but we went from Universal's HHN last year on a Friday nite, closed the park, (slept a few hours) flew to LAX arriving at 1 am, drove to PGA (CA residents KNOW what I mean when I say we took 99 instead of 5, and opened PGA.the next day). Got the last ride on Stealth (our ONLY Stealth ride - it was broken most of the day) before PGA closed for the season. That was an unbelievable trip, but who knew then more flyers were on the way!
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Son of Drop Zone - PKI CoasterCamp I Champions!!!

4.5 hours for Cedar Point. I try to go at least 2 times a year and its worth every minute of the drive. I would drive days to get there! (if i had too)

about 10 miles..or 10 minutes from SFGA.

1-2 hours to disneyland parks and knotts berry farm
45 min. to legoland. 4-5 hours to sfmm.

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Houston to New Orleans primarily to visit Jazzland. That's a good 6 hour drive at 350+ miles - and not for an especially GOOD park even. At least there's always the French Quarter...

I believe it was about 550 miles from CT to OH for a day at CP and a day at SFWOA. It took about 9-9.5 hours. I'd do it again in a minute.

I went from RI to Buffalo (SFDL) for a one day trip. and Drove 12-13 hrs to get to Cedar point for a weeklong coaster vacation (7 parks in 6 days)

Three hours and under is not what I qualify as having going somewhere, that's my personal mark, because it takes that long to get anywhere but another beach from here! Anyways, we travel the length of NC all the time, so we're broken in on the car. Unfortunately, all our travels do not end up at parks. We do drive to Myrtle Beach(which I can do in an hour or less, it all depends on the traffic when you get there) all the time. I've even almost commuted down for work.

My record is from Wilmington, NC to Atlanta, GA, and from Atlanta around lunch time the next day to Sandusky around late, late dinner time(but it wasn't the next day, yet). I do disobey many speed laws. They had just started crazy construction on I-75, so I suspect traveling through there this summer could have been slow.
I can't figure in terms of mileage, though, or hours, sometimes it's a blur. BGW and PKD are at least 5 hours from here, we dislike Virginia with its' eye out for my radar detection device, but other than that.......