DC resident here- KD is worth the drive, and Busch Gardens should be for special occasions only. I've done both on a day trip and I think KD is the better choice by far for an average person. SFA is 15min away on a good day and still not worth it.
Agree, the way BGW is better is best not worn out, and KD is still better if you just want to ride. Def. disagree with the video that SFA is "hot garbage", decent park that 1000 places would love to get -- a few listed here -- just a little redundant where it is. Except 2020 wasn't redundant at all -- thank you SF and the state of MD!
Oaks park is in Portland, which has a euro fighter and there’s also a small family park called Enchanted Forest nearby. They’re not major parks but still worth mentioning
I've been to Oaks Park. Yeah, they don't have a great ride lineup, but they do have some extras that you don't often see in theme parks, like a mini golf course and roller skating rink.
Pittsburgh PA is pretty great for parks! Kennywood is a great traditional park with great coasters like Phantoms Revenge and Steel Curtain (20 min away) Idlewild is a very nice kids park with unique rides (1 hr away) Waldameer has Ravine Flyer II and a great lake setting (2 hr away) Expanding further is Cedar Point (3 hr away), Hersheypark (3.5 hr away), and Knoebels (4 hr away).
@@PokeTube Phantom's revenge was madness. My life flashed before my eyes on those final airtime hills, I was getting true ejector with those pool noodle restraints.
I was born and raised in Indianapolis and you missed the two hour drive to Kings Island. That's the park of choice for Indy folk for sure. KK is the exact same distance though, so it's like pick your poison.
not sure about a dive coaster at knotts but i think you mean hangtime? knotts also has xcelerator which is the original accelerator coaster. its like a smaller dragster but still has the Best launch on the west coast. knotts rocks!
I'm from Seattle, and for coaster enthusiasts here, Silverwood is worth the drive. People here really don't get to ride roller coasters very often (if it all), so if you are someone who is super passionate about them (like me), it's worth taking a trip to Silverwood.
Baltimore/DC is a great place to live for amusement parks. Can take a day trip to Great adventure, hershey park, knoebels, kings dominion, dorney park, new jersey boardwalks,, and American dream mall all within 3 hours of the city. BGW is just over a 3 hour drive. And of course six flags america is right in between the cities.
Another good option for Boston would be Lake Compounce. It's not to far away and its got a few fun coasters, and a fantstic waterpark and selection of flat rides.
As someone from Denver I would recommend spending a few days in the Aspen/Glenwood springs area where you have Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park which is built on top of a mountain. It’s a several hour drive but if you can spend a few days in the area it’s worth it for more then Glenwood Caverns.
In Phoenix Arizona there’s a park called castles and coasters but it only has two roller coasters awesome Mattel adventure Park is coming to the state with a chance hyper GTX
Carowinds and Dollywood are within weekend trip distance to Atlanta which is good😂. I like sfog though, when its not crowded. Christmas is when I went. Skipped all summer due to crowds.
New Yorker over here for some advice over New York parks, (American Dream is great for families but thrill? It ain’t gonna it it) one minor park that’s kinda a NY special would be Coney Island. If you’re looking for thrill, it has the original cyclone (As us New Yorkers say, often cloned, never topped) and Thunderbolt, which has some violent laterals but some heavenly airtime and if you’re an airtime person it doesn’t get better than Thunderbolt. They have some non-coasters that still pack a real punch (any zenobio riders down here?) and have a huge team of construction that can build a whole park before six flags makes a single coaster.
Living in Colorado Springs means the best thing I have us to drive up to Denver for Elitch's so it's really sparse. Also I was surprised to find the Minneapolis isn't in the top 25 cities, I guess because when it's combined with St. Paul like it usually is it would break the top 25 but separately neither make it.
There is gonna be a new park coming next year to Phx, Az themed to Mattel. Will have a new Chance Rides Hyper Looping G-TX themed to Hot Wheels. There is also Castles n' Coasters which is soild but landlocked.
Haven't heard jack diddly doo about the new park in phoenix and I live in it. Got a source for that? Because I know for a fact we've killed a half-dozen park proposals in the last decade alone.
He didn't include Kemah Boardwalk or Galveston Island Pleasure Pier for Houston, and those 2 parks are bigger and much nicer than Castles and Coasters, and the new Mattel planned in Glendale. But Arizona is getting a new coaster this winter, a mountain coaster up in Williams AZ! :) so 2 years in a row with new coasters will be a much needed change of pace for our city. I wouldn't be suprised if we end up getting an indoor mall/waterpark/amusement park similar to American Dream in the distant future though
@@coastersandcosplays Nah. Arizonans are far too anti-development for that. Like I said, a half-dozen such proposals have been killed in the last decade alone.
If you're going to Kings Dominion tho, it is worth a quick stop at SFA for the Superman hyper and Batwing, one of the two Vekoma Flying Dutchmen left. And maybe Joker's Jinx. But it's a good stop to make if you have a Six Flags membership and a few hours to kill, especially since it's never crowded.
"7 hours is lengthy" Me who drove 11 hours from Tennessee to get to cedar point and stayed from open to close and then drove back with 0 hours of sleep
Another park in San Diego that is pretty cool to visit is Belmont Park. They have the Giant Dipper (not as good as the Santa Cruz) and it’s open late, so when SeaWorld closes, you can go to Belmont Park until they close at midnight. It’s also only 5 minutes from SeaWorld.
the good thing about having a six flags park as a home park is that my home park is less than 50 kilometers outside of downtown and therefore it's an under 40 minute drive no matter where you are in the metro area. personally I wish our park was located in the city so it would be possible to get there without a car but this isn't terrible. being able to walk, cycle or ride the bus to your home park must be the ultimate flex as a coaster enthusiast (you can go there alone whenever you want)
I lived in or near Indianapolis, IN and the best park to go to is Kings Island, then Holiday World, then Kentucky Kingdom and last but not least is Indiana Beach in that order. all these parks are about 3 hours or less from Indianapolis.
Six Flags America is actually not that bad of a park anymore, I went there this summer expecting it to be horrible, but I left there pleasantly surprised with it. It was a great main roller coaster in Superman and a great #2 with batwing.
For Boston, I would argue that Canobie Lake Park is a better choice for families. Such a great park that has a bit of everything without the Six Flags price tag.
Bottom line is, just make the drive to CP, it's not that long. (Lol, my dad and I have done two 11.5 hour drives for it. It's more than worth it with a. Few days.)
3:30 why you got the beat for jump in the background lmao and he got dysti at 5:30 (it repeats the intro) 7:30 orange soda 9:17 highest in the room (cool that he put some travis for houston because he's from houston)
Missed mentions within 2 hours of these cities though not necessarily better choices except maybe for Indy. Starts with Portland has Enchanted Forest, KI is 2 hours from Indy. LA also has Knotts Berry Farm only 25 minutes away. Dorney Park is only 1:45 away from NYC and Phil is only 1:15 minutes away.
As a resident of a suburb of Portland, Oaks Park is at least worth a mention. Also, I have driven the 6 hours to Silverwood lol for a trip. Being an enthusiast in the PNW sucks
I will correct you that CGA is definitely the better choice than discovery kingdom. The only real worthwhile rides there are Joker and Medusa. If you're in it for coasters, CGA is a much better experience, but if you care about the animal exhibits then sure but don't expect them to be as good as the actual zoos that are in this area.
Okay, I like in San Jose, CGA is a better pick for SJ. For 1 everyone in SJ knows about great America and like 1/2 the people here has season passes and a lot of Sacramento folks come down to CGA as well even though SFDK is closer to them, and 2 like WHY would you go to SFDK is there is CLEARLY a better park just a city away, why would you drive an hour to SFDK when better coasters are much closer. CGA is undoubtedly better than SFDK we have freaking Railblazer and they have…..joker. Our top 2 is WAY better than there top 2 and out supporting coasters are also better than theirs. Sure SFDK has a zoo and all, but dose that really make up for how good CGA? is I don’t think so. And speaking of zoos, Oakland zoo and San Francisco zoo aren’t that far either and MUCH better so if your going for the zoo, just go to one of those ones. If you are in SJ or even San Francisco you should probably visit CGA rather than SFDK.
Great video as to say coasters sure their are theme parks in South Korea that called Lotte World similar to Disneyland but it is just a carbon copy of Disneyland in Florida in comparison, as to say if you where still making videos and that South Korea opens up a Disney Park you’ll say this is the Disney that put Disneyland into shame. Yet how Disney Park Korea or Disneyland Korea set up it’s theme park will be like this: 1. Maleficent Mountain 2. Space Mountain(with 10 loops) 3. Dwarfs Mountain 4. Super Thunder Mountain 5. Roger’s Crazy Rollercoaster 6. Dark Side Mountain (Star Wars) 7. Goofy’s Crazy Mountain 8. Buzz Mountain(Buzz Lightyear) 9. Donald Duck’s Extreme Coaster 10. Pirates of The Caribbean Rollercoaster The 20 rollercoasters inside Disneyland Korea are all related to Marvel including Ironman and Hulk Mountain. This is how Disneyland Korea in Seoul will set it’s park all rollercoaster rides both quantity and quality dethroning Cedar Point as the best rollercoasters and dethroning Magic Mountain with the most rollercoasters that the Korean version of Space Mountain at Disneyland Korea mops the floor Tim with the original Space Mountain and Paris Space Mountain putting it to shame. That will also say that a kid in South Korea vomits at Space Mountain at a Disney Park in South Korea. That is how it sets up. Then if you want rollercoasters and then Disney sets up a Park in South Korea with 30 rollercoasters, would you rather go to Disneyland in California, Disney World in Orlando, Florida or Disneyland Korea in Seoul, South Korea?
Sfne is a 90 minute drive from boston. Canobie lake is only a 20 drive from boston. Canobie isnt that great of a park but it has a decent ptc and a decent eurofighter.
@@kitzaxo Orange County is technically in the Los Angeles Metropoliton Area besides Coastoons added Disneyland (in Anaheim, A City in OC) but not Knotts Berry Farm (in Buena Park, California)
I really wouldn't just write off SFA like that. They got some really awesome, unique coasters there, including a vekoma dutchman, intamin mega, and some of the best laterals anywhere on wild one. It's It's being run very well with the new management
@@charliepagel3611 some of my co-workers have commented about me going to Cedar Point again when I would go. I think I went twice a month, but with all season dining and drinks it made for a cheap day.
Same! Not the 10x part, but the Detroit part. Been to Cedar Point maybe 8 times, but never anywhere else (amusement parks, that is. I’ve been to Disney World and Universal Orlando). Almost afraid to visit another park because I feel like it’ll be underwhelming after years and years of Cedar Point lol
