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Yea.....were not all as lucky as Rob who lives just minutes from a dozen parks. Sure Amy baby...you can tag along if you like...lol

I never realized that there were 2 different parks there. I always thought it was all old town.

Thank you. I think with all wooden coasters, the ride experience changes during the day or weather or tempature. I wish I lived an hour away from any amusement park. The closest park to me is cedar point, and thats 2.5 hours away. I would love to hit michigans adventure more often, but I can never find anyone that likes to tag along...lol.

Nice pictures. One question though...Why does the fountain say epcot on it? Did it come from Disney?

Exactly....hence my point.

Diden't the parks stop selling gum because people were spitting it out on the midways? I know that you will not find gum at a cedar fair park because of that. I just find it kind of funny.

Count us in. We were planning on doing this park in the next few weeks, but will hold off if there is going to be a TPR event.

The breadsticks were still all you can eat for free. The food was o-k, but like I said, I like carabas better. The park does get slammed, that is why I try to hit it when its not a really hot day. If it's a hot day, the park will be very busy because of the water park.

I heard a rumor that this is a make or break year for geauga lake.

I have been to the one by Disneyland and thought it was just meh at best.

Just get a flash pass, that way you can skip the lines.......oh wait....cedar fair does not offer them.

Ok..... It looks exactly like the frontier train station at cedar point, only smaller.I don't have a picture to compare the two, but if you looked you wouldn't know the difference except for the size.

I love holiday world. I think that the "big" parks should study how holiday world operates, and take some notes.

It is a great little park. I have not been there in several years. They had some decent coasters, and flats. The only negative things that I can think of was that in order to ride any of the coasters, you had to climb a million stairs to get to them. This got a bit annoying, as the park was really slow on the day we went, and they made us go around everytime instead of letting us re-ride. The other thing was when we went to try and play fascination, the smoke was so thick, you could cut it with a knife. Ended up not playing because of this. I have yet to ride steel hog, but it looks like a fun little coaster.

Nope. It's a park that is currently in operation......a big one.

I agree. The flats that they had were not very exciting. The thunderbolt had one of the weakest programs that I have ever had on that type of ride. The trabant was about as much fun as riding a hampton motorcycle ride. The only decent flats that I think they have, are the falling star and swing ride. But the one thing I would like to see more than anything at the park, would be for them to connect the park in a circle. They started to build the path behind thunderhawk, and just stopped. If your not sure what I am talking about, imagine a path that starts next to shivering timbers train station, and connects to the path behind thunderhawk. As it is now, it's a pain to get to thunderhawk if you are near timbers. The train takes forever, and the walk is long. All in all, the park is 10x as better then it was a few years ago.

Actually, the park was quite busy. There were a lot of busses there. We did not get there until 2:30, and some of the groups were leaving the park, while a lot of them were in the water park. Most of the pictures I took, were from the last hour the park was open.

Here is a short video of the mad mouse as I was walking into the park. [coastertube]http://www.themeparkreview.com/coastertube/play.php?vid=102_7388_k2ax[/coastertube]

A few bonus pictures. I have a short video of the mad mouse that I will get on here soon as well. There were a ton of Michigan adventure billboards along the way. Swan boats(from cedar point), and funnel of fear. Corkscrew. The trees are starting to put some shade onto the midways. Loggers run drop. Thunderbolt cars. More random munu prices. Zacks zoomer station. Shivering timbers turn around from the parking lot. The new campground right across the street from the park. Another merry go round shot.

In the morning, and afternoon the amusement park can get buisy. During the day on a warm day, the amusement park is very manageable. You may end up waiting a half hour for timbers on a buisy day. The longest lines are usually for the mad mouse and corkscrew because of the low capacity of the rides. Wolverine wildcat's line can get bad sometimes, because it only runs 1 train.

I went to my first timbers fest last year, and was not able to get any night rides on timbers because of lightning. I hope to get some night rides in this year. $10 for 2 days of ert and meals is not a bad deal at all. One thing I have noticed this year, is the lack of a t-shirt. Anyone know about this. Ha...I just noticed that chick taking off her shorts at the grand rapids sign.

Thank you. I agree. The park looked clean and fresh this year, and the employees were great(except for the god awful uniforms they had on). I can't wait to hit timbers fest later this month. If you want to get some great ert in, check out timbers fest. It is also the ONLY time you can ride it in the dark, as the park always closes before the sun drops.

Yes. The park is looking much better than it did before cedar fair took over. They have planted a lot of trees, and added a bunch of new attractions. Timbers was running like it was years ago. It was fairly smooth, and I had some mega airtime on the hills. I am not sure why it has slipped so much in the coaster polls. I guess with rides like El Toro and the voyage, it kind of was forgotten because of that, and it is in such a small park. The park has really improved over the years, if you have not been there in a while, I would suggest giving it another shot. Just keep in mind that it is not a huge park, and all is good. The waterpark is killer as well. Now if we can just get them to connect that path next to wolverine wildcat.......

I almost forgot about this picture.

We decided to make a trip over to Michigans adventure today. I looked at the website and thought it said they were open till 7, but I read it wrong and they were only open till 5pm. That kind of sucked, as we did not get there till 2:30. The trip to the park was almost as fun as the park itself due to the funny signs we passed. Overall the park looked good. I was a little worried when we pulled in, and there were about 50 busses in the lot. But the good thing was that they were all in the water park. We got to see the new bumper boats, but passed on them due to time. Shivering timbers was in tip top shape, and so was the other coasters there. I had a TON of airtime on wolverine wildcat. Thunderhawk is probaly the best slc around as there was very little to no head banging. Timbers was just amazing in an abundance of airtime. On with the pictures..... It was a 3 hour drive to the park. A boring 3 hour ride that is. There were no clouds in the sky, except for these cool looking ones. Typical Michigan roads.....there is no way around it. Ok...so we saw some really interesting signs on the way to the park. Here are a few of them. I wonder if the reason he is running for office, is so that he can get back at all those people that made fun of his name? Ummm...yea...ok Here is one of the very desciptive signs pointing us to the park. We are getting close......I think. Would it kill them to put "Michigans adventure" on the sign? Finnaly I can never get sick of this view. Yep....parking lot was empty, except for the 50 or so busses near the entrance of the park. The mouse coaster. I think every cedarfair park has one of these. New for 2010....bumper boats. For the tpr sign database. I am so glad that they got these instead of demon drop......end sarcasm First ride of the day Looking up at the flume. The giant wheel. I love the paint job. Sea dragon ride. The star of the show. Noted.... They were running both trains. Station shot. Sorry about the bad picture, but you get the idea. There was no way to go around the sprinklers at timbers exit...you will get wet!! Train station.....kinda looks like a train station at another park. Anyone know? I thought I would take the train to get some pictures of timbers. But for some weird reason, they do not let you take pictures on the train. Not sure why, the train moves about as fast as my lawn mower. I was able to snag this shot while waiting for the choo choo. Scrambler Tilt a hurl. The flying trapeze The trabant. This ride looks like it's about to fall apart. The thunderbolt. I don't know why, but I love this shot. The falling star Looks like they were still working on thunderhawks 2'nd train. They had all the back pannels off, and you could see all of the moving parts. Thunderhawk I like the B&M seat better daddy.... Thunderhawk doing it's thing. Twisted mess of steel Inside the station. The hand dryers in the rest rooms, will rip your flesh right off your hands if your not carefull. Grand rapids is the parks rapids ride. They have those water guns Not good... There were lots of rapids. Too much wetness for me. They have these water slides in the dry park, because you do not get wet on them. Adventure falls is like snake river falls at cedar point, only smaller Grand rapids station. Thunderhawk and swan boats. This ride is only for the hard core..... Merry go round. The corkscrew The highley themed station. Geek shot Empty station. The first drop. Loopy arrow goodness. Zacks zoomer kiddie coaster is this way... The big dipper kiddie coaster. Yep....she is my daughter. The wolverene wildcat. I got more airtime than I have ever had on this ride this time around. A look at it from accross the lake. I took the tunnel..... Another empty station. Brake run. Just in case you forgot where we are. Bumper cars and giant wheel. Bumper cars Not quite disneyworld, but fun none the less. Amy took advantage of the free shots of ice water. Wild mouse. This picture goes out to Kid tums. The park now has cheese curds as well. Random menu. Yayyy...snoopy Mad mouse Till timbersfest..... We have been wanting to try this place for a long time now, so on the way home we decided to try it out. It was good, but not as good as carabas. Also stopped and got a 89 cent frozen slushy from the gas station. Much cheaper than the $10 slushies they sold in the park. That's it for this trip report....hope you enjoyed it.