A Nutty Old Park Returns to California. And a New Park May Be on the Way to Michigan.
Monday July 31, 2006
Until it closed ten years ago, the Nut Tree offered a way station for California motorists traveling between the Bay Area and Sacramento. New owners are busy getting the place ... Read More
Wild Escape Escapes to West Virginia
Friday July 28, 2006
Developers recently broke ground in Wheeling, West Virginia on the 100-acre Wild Escape resort. According to the Centre Daily Times, the $200 million project, which is slated to include a ... Read More
It'll Be Cherry and Water Park Season Year-Round in Ohio
Thursday July 27, 2006
Yet another indoor water park, the Cherry Valley Lodge, will be coming to Ohio. Located in Newark (northeast of Columbus), the resort will be conducting a $28-million renovation that will ... Read More
Great Adventure's Explosive Coasters will Floor You
Tuesday July 25, 2006
Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey has a mighty impressive roster of roller coasters. El Toro, which debuted this season, is phenomenal. And Kingda Ka, the world's tallest, fastest ... Read More
Goodbye Hill Valley, Hello Springfield? Is Universal Studios Florida Going Back to the Simpsons?
Monday July 24, 2006
I don't generally indulge in rumors on my site, but my friends over at Screamscape.com (who specialize in theme park rumors) have reliable sources backing up the story that Universal ... Read More
Maybe Disney Imagineers can Solve Energy Woes
Friday July 21, 2006
While there hasn't been a great deal of hype about Turtle Talk with Crush at Disney's California Adventure Park and Epcot at Florida's Walt Disney World, I believe it is ... Read More
Hey Boo-Boo, Let's Go Get Us Some Pic-a-nic Baskets--at the Water Park
Thursday July 20, 2006
Yet another indoor water park resort has opened in waterlogged Wisconsin. (Those folks in the Midwest really love to get wet.) Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park, a huge campground in Warren, ... Read More
A More Laid-back Six Flags Park
Tuesday July 18, 2006
A true destination resort, Six Flags Darien Lake, between Buffalo and Rochester in New York, is as much about its huge campground, pleasant Lodge on the Lake hotel, Performing Arts ... Read More
Six Flags Over...Disney?
Tuesday July 18, 2006
New Six Flags CEO Mark Shapiro has been saying that one of his main goals is to make the chain of coaster-crazy theme parks more family friendly. The former executive ... Read More
Disney doesn't Call them "Value" Resorts for Nothin'
Monday July 17, 2006
If you want good deals (and smaller crowds) for your theme park vacations, you have to zag when everybody else is zigging. Since kids go back to school in late ... Read More
Hershey-by-the-Sea
Friday July 14, 2006
One of the nation's oldest continuously operating amusement parks, Hershey, Pennsylvania's Hersheypark turns 100 in 2007. It will celebrate the milestone in a grand and clever style by introducing a ... Read More
Son of Beast Coaster Mishap in Ohio
Thursday July 13, 2006
Late Sunday, 27 riders on the Son of Beast wood coaster at Kings Island in Ohio were taken to the hospital. According to Cincinnati TV station, WCPO, the passengers suffered ... Read More
A Different Kind of Water Fun in Niagara Falls
Tuesday July 11, 2006
The new Great Wolf Lodge in Ontario, Canada's Niagara Falls offers the same kind of indoor water park fun as the chain's other highly themed resorts in Wisconsin Dells, Sandusky, ... Read More
I'm Mad as Hell and I'm not Going to Take it Anymore! Time to Issue some Z-Tickets.
Monday July 10, 2006
I love theme parks. That's why I'm the Theme Parks Guide at About.com. But sometimes--OK, LOTS of times--parks do things that make me crazy. I just returned from a trip ... Read More
Christmas in July
Friday July 7, 2006
Christmas came early for me this year when I received the gift of a new book, "Images of America: Holiday World." Written by the Indiana theme park's matriarch, Pat Koch, ... Read More
New Pirates Plunder Disney Rides
Wednesday July 5, 2006
It's corporate synergy, me mateys! First there was Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean, a pitch-perfect ride that Walt Disney personally oversaw. It became an instant classic--perhaps the archetypal theme park ... Read More
This Park is a Dive
Saturday July 1, 2006
Sandcastle, the Pittsburgh water park run by the Kennywood (a classic theme park near Pittsburgh) folks, is presenting recent family films each Sunday evening through August 13. Called Dive-in Movies, ... Read More