How many guest can a park hold?

I was recently talking with my father, and I he asked me what is the capicty for people in Sixflags Great Adventure? I said "I was not sure", not good words from my mouth since, I could answer every other qestion asked about amusmentparks, so I decided to ask around, and I chose to ask here first. Dose anyone know any capicty figures for Great Adventure, aswell as other parks maybe such Cedarpoint, DisneyWorld, SF- Magic Mountain etc?

I'd have a feeling it is incredibly large....high hundred thousands would be my guess....but I kno little about this...

Might want to check their websites under their safety agreements.

One of note is that Tokyo Disneyland once had a one day attendance of 99,000. Does that mean they were ALL in there at once? No. 50k-70K is a solid estimate of some of the other larger parks you mentioned.

Thing is - these numbers are not really their capacities ... they're just how many people they'll allow to be stuffed in the park on exceptionally popular days (NY Eve, Xmas, other holidays). The actual capacities depend on waaay to many variables for my brain to handle.

As I said these are estimates, and personal ones at that. The ones that I'm pretty sure of are that 30K-50K for most parks is a really busy, great day.

Mike

That doesn't seem like a lot, considering several college football stadiums hold 100,000 or more people *all at once.*

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Well, as someone above said, if you hear a park had a daily attendence of say 40,000, that doesn't mean they were all there at once. You need to look at "moment" figures (usually parks keep hourly attendence counts), not cummulative numbers.

But that's if you can get figures, which is not likely. But for a maximum cap. at any moment, fire marshals usually set that.... you could try to write a county's/city's fire marshal, as these stats are (usually) public record.

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I would say that the MF line could hold 100,00 all at once...JK.

On a fairly crowded day at IOA (45 min for DD, hr+ for Hulk), they said 30K were in the park.

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Efteling, one of the largest theme parks in the world, is allowed to accomodate 62.000 people at once. This has only occured once until now. :)

Most theme parks are only allowed 20.000 tot 30.000 people inside at once due to safety regulations.

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I actually happen to know that MK in DW has had up to 92,000 people in it at one time. They had to close the park to oncoming guests because the park could not be safely maintained.

Well, to shed some light on this, PKI has approximatly 11,000 parking sapces in their parking lot. I don`t know the PKI max. capacity, but I know that back in 1997, they ran out of parking spots and were parking people on the grass out by the Western Row Road and Kings Island Drive intersection.

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I've been to MK at WDW during President's day weekend and they closed the park around 2pm. This has been known to happen during New Year's eve and the park has closed as early as 11am.

I don't know if thry open the park again after some people leave, though.

Also, they never close it to guests staying on-site, only to everyone else.

coastersrz,

I remember that day! I also remember this past summer when PKI hit up to 50,000 guests. Even that's a lot. I was gonna go, drove by, saw it was INCREDIBLY crowded, and went onto Lesourdsville(got 30 laps on Screechin Eagle in).

*** This post was edited by Darth Saambe on 12/6/2002. ***

I think PKI's Copacity is 65,000. They almost hit it on the first Bring A Friend Free Day. People were parked anywhere within a quarter mile of a place.

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It is not uncommon for PKI to park people in that grass at the end of the parking lot. It is considered their overflow lot. If you were to ever park out there you would notice that they will bring out mobile lighting units, mainly purchased for that reason. As far as the actual capacity of the park, I'm not exactly sure. Yes we had some busy days this year but I know we did not get near 65,000. 55-58 at the most and we were turning people away long before that because we just don't have enough parking for that many people. (I truly don't think we even got that high) They used to pay us extra on days when we had 50K+ in the park but we haven't hit that since 1998 until this year.

As far as not having all those people in the park at once, it is true. If you are near any maintance guy or manager with a radio right about on the hour you will hear a message stating "gross" and "net" attendance (or alpha). Gross being current level and net being total for the day.

I think I might have to send an email to Mr. Siebert and ask about the capacity. He is usually good with that kind of trivia about PKI.

*** This post was edited by BeastFreak on 12/6/2002. ***

Disneyland has seen 50K days.

Moosh

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On many occasions I have been to Hoiday World and had to park in the grass over to the left of the main parking entrance. Most of the time, these are Saturdays. Well, everytime it was a Saturday, lol.

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I heard that SFGAM hits 40,000+ many times throughout the season.

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Wonderland Sydney holds the record for Australian parks. In 1992, they pulled 23,000 for a Halloween event. Most recently they got 14,000 because of a Union function (just shows how unionised Australia is - not something to be proud of to me).

Sounds pretty pathetic compared to some of the world-wide stats I suppose, but can't forget that this is a country with less than 20 million people, meanwhile America has well over 250 million. (just had to defend this country :))

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