Need help planning midwest trip for '04
Start out in Jersey early in the morning and hit Kennywood about 12 noon giving you a full day there, next day would be SFWOA, Next Day CP. Followed by a partial day at MIA. I would then head to SFGAM for a full day, from there head to IB. Next up morning at HW followed by an evening at SFKK . The next Day PKI.
That puts you at 8 days plus another day back home. That is the geographic way to do things, the Missouri parks woudl put you over the edge SFSTL is doable at 4 hours from HW but the Branson parks may put ya too far.
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UnfrigginbelievablyIncredible
*** This post was edited by MagnumForce 6/30/2003 7:52:10 PM ***
However you could switch the two parks, you gain an hour heading to HW from KK and the parks are only an hour apart you may want to do it that way.
The distance is insignificant. I was just simply going via the route that would cost you the least mileage.
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UnfrigginbelievablyIncredible
June 12-Flew from Boston to Akron, drove to Kennywood.
June 13-Cedar Point
June 14-Timbersfest at MIA
June 15-Santas Village and Kiddleland in Chicago then to Indiana Beach
June 16-SFGA
June 17-Little A-Merrick-A, Riverview, Big Chief
June 18-Valleyfair!, Mall of America, Arnolds Park (Iowa)
June 19-Adventureland(Iowa), Worlds of Fun
June 20-Silver Dollar City, Celebration City
June 21-Silver Dollar City, Bell's (OK), Frontier City(OK)
June 22-SFOT, Sandy Lake, SCAD Tower
June 23-Magic Springs, Libertyland(Closed) so we went to Graceland!
June 24-SFStL, Holiday World
June 25-PKI, Coney Island (Cinnci)
June 26-Flew back to Boston then back to work
It was a little crazy, but definately worth it! In the end we rode 104 roller coasters in 26 parks. So here are some definates that you need to visit on your trip.
Big Chief-Cyclops----AMAZING
Celebration City,Ozark Wildcat----Get there as soon as possible, its perfect!
Indiana Beach, Cornball Express--Definately not a family coaster, also LoCoSuMo---Fun fun fun!
Kennywood, Phantoms Revenge----Ride in the back and just hold on.
Holiday World, Raven, Legend, Zinga---'Nuff said
Have fun planning! Dont worry, your plans will change-so just go with it and enjoy!
matt-wish Ozark Wildcat was on the East Coast
Unfortuantely they aren't open past dark. ------------------
Actually...that's not totally accurate information. Please refer to Holiday World's operations calendar: http://www.holidayworld.com/schedule.html for the specifics. (We don't have the 2004 calendar, yet, but it should be similar to 2003.)
In June this year, Holiday World was open Saturdays until 9 pm or 10 pm. In July of this year, we're open till 9 pm every day except Saturdays, when we're open till 10 pm.
Hope you can include us in your trip! Paula
Paula Werne
Holiday World PR
www.holidayworld.com
None of the parks you've mentioned are going in danger of closing and will be open the next time you make it to the area.
mOOSH
Oh, and one more thing: if Conneaut Lake is open next year don't pass pass up a visit, it's about an hour north of Kennywood.
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Mamoosh said:
One word of advice: don't cram! Don't plan half-days at parks. Don't rush...explore each park and enjoy what it has to offer.
Agreed. I'm doing a 7 day trip this August and only hitting 3 parks. What I would do is get a core list of "can't miss" parks and use the others to fill in blank spots if you have the time and inclination to go. I think you'll have a blast however you decide to do it though.
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Jeff-Jeff
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