Evan's 2025 Amusement Park (and other fun things) Photo Trip Report Thread

[coastersandhockey]

Hi TPR Forum goers! My name is Evan, and I have been around here for a few years. I've never posted a ton in the forum but have always enjoyed reading. I remember back in the day I used to use my mom's account and read stuff and post from there. Shows the longevity of this forum. A little about me, I live in the suburbs east of Cleveland Ohio with my girlfriend and our two cats and a dog. Cedar Point has always been my home park, though now that I've moved east, Waldameer is kind of my "side piece" home park. Cedar Point is 80 miles away, and Waldameer is 82 miles away. I, like many coaster enthusiasts, grew up wanting to be a roller coaster designer. I realized as I got older what a niche career that is but still found myself in school for mechanical engineering and now work as a process improvement engineer. Not a bad gig! I am also a huge Cleveland and Columbus sports fan, particularly of the hockey variety. But that's enough about me...

This thread will be photo trip reports from everything/everywhere I traveled over the year of 2025. I was inspired by reading other reports on here and thought this would be a good way to kill off the rest of the Winter before the parks open up. Even though I'm an engineer I've always been a decent writer (I think) and a decent photographer (I think), so it seemed like a great idea for me to start this. Maybe one day I'll start my own Substack or similar site. 

In this thread you'll find reports from:

• Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas
• Kings Island 2025 Opening Day
• Cedar Point 2025 Opening Day
• Kings Island Coasterstock 2025
• Siren's Curse Media Day
• Niagara Falls and Canada's Wonderland Mid-July 2025
• Niagara Falls, Canada's Wonderland, Niagara Amusement Park, and Waldameer Late-July 2025
• Universal Orlando August 2025
• Universal Orlando Halloween Horror Nights 34 

I look forward to writing these up. Some of the bigger trips will be broken up into multiple parts. Feel free to comment. I love a good theme park discussion, plus that will keep me inspired to keep writing these. I would like to do this during the 2026 season as well but that will be a little more "live updates".