Dr Freeze Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 I've got a lot of parks in the North east I want to go to. I'm sure it will take 2, maybe 3 trips to get them all: Pennsylvania: Conneaut Lake Park Dorney Park Hersheypark Kennywood Park Lakemont Knoebels Idlewood other Northeast parks: Six Flags Great Adventure Lake Compounce Six Flags New England The Great Escape Six Flags Darien Lake Which should I combine for one trip? Is there a good route to hit all the PA parks? Are any of the small parks close enough to get to 2 in one day? I'm not very good when it comes to route planning. Especially since I've never been to any of those parks (or states) - so ANY suggestions would help. My ideal trip is a "leave on sunday, get back on friday" (6 day) style trip (that worked great for my Ohio trip last year). Since there are so many up there and it would make sense to make the most of things if I'm in the area, I might be able to do a "sunday through next week's friday" trip (13 days). I usually have at least 3 people with me, so driving is more affordable for us than flying (my parents have a nice travel van, I use it more than they do!). ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Yankee Guy Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 lets see...Six Flags Darien Lake and Great Escape are sort of on opposite sides of the state of NY. Darien Lake being near Rochester and GE is in Lake George about 240 miles from Darien Lake. Six Flags New England and Lake Compounce are about an hour and half from each other but it works in working yourself down to Pennsylvania since LC is on the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAcoaster Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 SFGAdv, Hershey and Dorney are all easily doable over 3 days. It's about 1 1/2 hours from SFGADv to Dorney, and then about the same to Hershey from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertgforces Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 i bealeve that kennywood and idlewild are near each other, am i correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 Here's how I would group them: Six Flags Darien Lake Martin's Fantasy Island Seabreeze Marineland PCW Conneaut Lake Park/Waldameer Kennywood Park Idlewild Lakemont/Delgrossos Six Flags Great Adventure Dorney Park Hersheypark Knoebels Williams Grove/Dutch Wonderland Lake Compounce/Quassy Six Flags New England The Great Escape Maybe La Ronde or Funtown/Splashtown or Canobie Keep in mind these are not the ORDER to hit the parks, there are additional parks you could hit, and you'd need some more detailed planning. Elissa "Hope this helps!" Alvey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryH Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 Lakemont and Delgrosso's are like 30-45 minutes from each other, so you can do both on the same day. I did them both on a Friday in August. Delgrosso's was pretty busy in the afternoon. I went at Lakemont after 5 pm and there were like 6 people there! Oh, sit in the front of the Skyliner at Lakemont. It's smooth in the back and unbearably rough in the back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteornotes Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 Lakemont never seems to be busy, unless they're giving away free food. I was there on one of those days, and have never seen so many mullets, bad tattoos, chain smoking, cursing and shoving...and don't get me started on their husbands! Seriously, that was one annoying day at that park. I think all I did was ride LTD a couple of times before bailing. On most normal days, you'll be able to ride everything without much of a wait. I really like this park, but it's not somewhere that I'd normally end up spending more than half a day there at the most. Delgrosso's is right up the road, and is usually much more crowded. Be sure to try the pizza and the potato salad. It is godly! dt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 ^And make sure to ride the "Spine Adjuster" kiddie coaster a few times at Lakemont! Elissa "my back still hurts!" Alvey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteornotes Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 ^Yeah, that thing is brutal! But they took out their mouse ride, which was almost as deadly... Dave "now they need to get MFI's shot tower for their 'Pain' collection" Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Freeze Posted February 19, 2005 Author Share Posted February 19, 2005 ok, that park grouping helps I really just need to buy a big map and put it on the wall, with thumb-tacks at park locations. With SFGAdv working on their 13th coaster (record breaking at that), do you think it will require more than one day? I will probably be going on weekday. I have a Six Flags season pass, so cost isn't too much of an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertgforces Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 as long as you have a q-bot and get there BEFORE the park opens i think that you'll be fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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