Most Interesting Form Of Transport To A Park???

[tiger01]

Even though there is transport AROUND parks it's interesting to see transport TO a park. At Oakwood there is a Train you have to get on to go from the car park to the entrance which takes you round fields and stuff (i've never been Oakwood i just know ) So what types of transport is there to your local parks or your favourite parks??? Are they interesting???

[ebl]

I've never been there, but I believe that Ghost Town in the Sky had a chairlift that you had to ride to get from the parking lot to the park itself. And I think one park in Hong Kong has an aerial tramway that takes you from parking to the park.

 

Eric

[Koolkid]

Alton Towers is pretty awesome with a Monorail ride through the park to the entrance. I think that's a pretty brilliant/magical start and end to a day out.

[Sir Clinksalot]

From the ones I've been to, I just LOVE taking the boat from the TTC to the Magic Kingdom.

[jray21]

I like taking the boat to MK. Yomiuriland had a Gondola to take to the park. I had a bus drop me off on a freeway shoulder for a park in Brazil!

[WFChris]

My favorite is the park in Japan with the cat and dog funicular. Wasn't there so I don't know the name of the park!

 

[David H]

^ That's Wonder Rakutenchi. I was actually just going to post that. It was in the last Japan day of my ongoing epic Asia trip report that I posted last week. In fact, that's my picture from the PTR!

 

There are also two other mountainside parks in Spain with funiculars (but not with cats or dogs on them!) up to the park: Tibidabo and Monte Iguedldo. However, at neither of those parks is the funicular the ONLY way to get into the park, like it is at Wonder Rakitenchi. You can drive or take a bus up to either of those parks also.

 

As for the comment earlier about th park in Hong Kong, you're thinking of Ocean Park, which technically doens't count, according to the rules of this thread, since both the cable car and the underground train ride are within the park itself, which is in two sections. However, you could almost count it since all of the rides are in the upper section of the park. The lower section is all animal exhibits, mostly marine animals, plus pandas. (And Halloween mazes and shows during their awesome Halloween event.)

Edited November 25, 2012 by David H

[MayTheGForceBeWithYou]

I've never been there, but I believe that Ghost Town in the Sky had a chairlift that you had to ride to get from the parking lot to the park itself...

They did. I'm almost positive all the infrastructure is still standing.

 

On the note of Ghost Town, Glenwood Caverns has a similar system (and from what I've heard about Ghost Town, the parks themselves are similar as well):

[kidcoaster 2]

I've never been there, but I believe that Ghost Town in the Sky had a chairlift that you had to ride to get from the parking lot to the park itself...

They did. I'm almost positive all the infrastructure is still standing.

 

Actually the chairlift (And parts of the park) has reopened and operates in the summer.

 

[JonnyRCT3]

Kennywood has a pretty nifty chairlift from the parking lot. The terrain they're is far from flat so it's pretty useful, they even run it in the rain--another plus.

 

Take THAT CP operations!

[XYZ]

Magic Kingdom certainly has an interesting form of transportation as you get to the park either by monorail or boat.

[robbalvey]

My favorite is the park in Japan with the cat and dog funicular. Wasn't there so I don't know the name of the park!

 

That would be Wonder Rakutenchi!

[Wes]

Nothing really beats this

 

[rctneil]

The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are:

 

Alton Towers,

- Monorail from CarPark/Resort Hotels => Theme Park

 

Ocean Park

- It's not quite from car park to theme park but from lower area to upper themepark and there are two routes, the cable cars (as Wes shows above) and the Funicular which is really cool (literally, air conditioned and have snazzy over the head displays to keep people entertained during the journey)

[SharkTums]

Here's one that hasn't been mentioned yet. The ride up to the Genting Highlands Resort in Malaysia. There were monkey's under us in the jungle!!!

Scary!

[-Edge of Beast-]

Silver Dollar City's trams <3

 

I also love the Skyride at Cedar Point if I want to get from one side of the park to another. That's not necessarily "to" the park, though.

[jray21]

^^That reminds me of the Jamaican chairlift through spider hell to get to the mountain coaster!

On the way down, you brushed up against the trees.

These were in the trees! (they look small, but they were as big as a hand!)

[Nrthwnd]

I really liked this monorail they had/have at Alton Towers, that runs

between the hotels and the park.

 

But I REALLY LIKED this monorail, because this monorail is the one

used for transport through our 1986 EXPO Worlds Fair in Vancouver, Canada!

 

Alton Towers bought the system after the fair ended... and it still runs good!

This here used to be back there where I'm from. It still looks great on the elevated rail. (Taken first TPR tour 2006, in my more hairier days, lol.)

[Top Thrill Dragster]

Not to the park, but the USH star way that takes you from the Upper Lot to the Lower Lot is pretty unique and offer some amazing views of nearby studios and the San Fernando valley.

[rubysparkles]

Ocean Park

- It's not quite from car park to theme park but from lower area to upper themepark and there are two routes, the cable cars (as Wes shows above) and the Funicular which is really cool (literally, air conditioned and have snazzy over the head displays to keep people entertained during the journey)

 

They even changed the overhead displays for Halloween.

[larrygator]

I remember in the 1970's when you had the third option at Magic Kingdom of taking a tram from the parking lot to the park entrance. You passed dozens of topiaries in the form of Disney characters.

[caffeine_demon]

ANother goodun is freizeitpark klotten - a chairlift, followed by a 5-10 minmute uphill walk!

[154bmag]

SFDK has a ferry service that runs from San Fransisco 's Peir 39

[805Andrew]

The most interesting form of transportation I've taken to get to a amusement park is a funicular from the city part of Barcelona to Tibidabo. It's a cool way to start and end your park visit.