Canobie Lake Opening Day 2010

[ahecht]

So today was the Canobie Lake opening day sale, where admission is only $22 and you can buy as many tickets as you want at that price to use later in 2010. For a variety of reasons, we didn't get there until after noon, and the ticket lines stretched back into the parking lot a couple of rows. I asked someone near the front of the ticket line, and they had been waiting for 50 minutes so far. Given that the park was only open until 6pm and looked very crowded, we decided to skip going into the park, and instead just purchased a bunch of discounted tickets at Group Sales for future dates (there is no line at group sales, but the tickets they sell there cannot be used on opening day).

 

From what I could see from the outside the park looked nice and clean, and all the rides near the front were up and running. Hopefully someone else will have a trip report from inside the park.

The long ticket lines in the afternoon on opening day 2010

[mrceagle]

I was at the park opening day and made it in. though I got there at 10:15. So I never saw crowds till I rode Cannonball at 11:30. I'll have a TR posted later today but no pics.

[Dr.Shadey]

I got there right at noon and waited in those lines for about 30 minutes before actually getting into the park : P

It was well worth it though, I love Canobie Lake, especially in the spring, it's really beautiful.

[mrceagle]

It seems those who got to the park form 1:30 to 12:00 got in reasonably quickly. but after that it seems most of Eastern New England figured Canobie was the place to be on a nice day.