Name the Best Amusement Park you have ever been to.....

[tomwed]

I'm going to say Palisades Amusement Park in Weehawken, New Jersey. Even the name Weeeeeeeeeehawken sounds like an amusement park. I was about 12 and I think they bragged about have the largest wooden [gulp--think rotting wood and drunk nail bangers holding it together] roller coaster and the world's largest salt water pool. Somehow they even made some kind of wave. Unless my imagination manufactured that instead of my memory kicking in.

I could get in for free once a year when the Jersey Journal gave their paper carriers a ticket for a new subscription.

[Mudder]

I'm going with the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, NJ. I would ride the carosel for hours trying to get the brass ring! Loved all the skee ball and other crazy arcade games. And of course loved the horse that jumped off the pier into the ocean.

[Kahuna32162]

Cedar Point, on America's Roller Coast in Sandusky, Ohio

[delima2000]

Bob-Lo island between Canada and Detroit at the mouth of the Detroit river and Lake Erie .

[tomwed]

I'm going with the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, NJ. I would ride the carosel for hours trying to get the brass ring! Loved all the skee ball and other crazy arcade games. And of course loved the horse that jumped off the pier into the ocean.
I saw that horse too. In the poster he looks like he's jumping off and having fun, like Tarzan. If I remember correctly, the bottom drops out and he's doing a "Hail Mary" on the way down. [some of that I made up]

[Sonny39]

Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio .

[Polar Bear]

Another vote for Cedar Point. One white-knuckle roller coaster after another. And we all know, coasters are all that really matters at an amusement park!! :22yikes: :eek: :22yikes: :eek: :22yikes: :eek: :22yikes: :eek:

[Bonny]

Cedar Point for sure. When we lived in Michigan we would go 3-5 times a year.
It was a 2 1/2 - 3 hour drive. Sometimes we would stay over night in a motel. When we had our motorhome, we would go and stay for a few days and visit all the area attractions. Deer Park, Castalia Blue Hole, African Wild Animal Park, Seneca Caverns.

I must say though, in it's day, taking the fun Bob-Lo boat to Bob-lo Island was a definite fun time !!

[cologal]

As a child in the 60's it would have been Bertrand's Island in northern NJ...we would go once a year on nickel night.

Once we moved to Colorado it was Elitch Gardens in Denver, CO.

Sadly neither of these is in operation today....

[justjim]

As a teenager it was Forest Park St. Louis. The wooden Roller Coaster was the thrill ride at that time.

[tomwed]

As a child in the 60's it would have been Bertrand's Island in northern NJ...we would go once a year on nickel night.

Once we moved to Colorado it was Elitch Gardens in Denver, CO.

Sadly neither of these is in operation today....
thank-you
We used to go there too on nickel night.

In fact, we had our 8th grade Immaculate Conception in Secaucus NJ field trip there too. On that trip I went in the Tunnel of Love with Kathy Keller. Just when we started kissing it seemed like the ride was about to end. So I stuck my leg out and stopped the boat bracing it against something I could reach. We heard a big snap like some kind of chain broke or something. Very shortly the lights came on and everyone had to evacuate.

ah, the good times
[Sorry Sister Jovita if you are still around]

[Ecuadog]

Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY.

[tomwed]

Does anyone remember Uncle Milty's Kiddie Park in Bayonne New Jersey?

[skip0358]

Knoebels in PA. Might not be the scary type. We loved it and so did my Granddaughter. Every ride was nice,free admission and affordable.

[golfing eagles]

I'm going to say Palisades Amusement Park in Weehawken, New Jersey. Even the name Weeeeeeeeeehawken sounds like an amusement park. I was about 12 and I think they bragged about have the largest wooden [gulp--think rotting wood and drunk nail bangers holding it together] roller coaster and the world's largest salt water pool. Somehow they even made some kind of wave. Unless my imagination manufactured that instead of my memory kicking in.

I could get in for free once a year when the Jersey Journal gave their paper carriers a ticket for a new subscription.

Absolutely a vote for Palisades. It might not have been "the best" by todays standards, but it was the most fun. And they had a great jingle on their TV and radio ads.

[tomwed]

i'm on the way to roosevelt. i forgot how the jingle goes.

[golfing eagles]

i'm on the way to roosevelt. i forgot how the jingle goes.

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[golfing eagles]

i'm on the way to roosevelt. i forgot how the jingle goes.

try this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLVgEP8pOWQ

[Jaggy]

Kennywood.. !!!! ha.. until I discovered Cedar Point..

[Mike & Gloria]

My vote would be for Palisades Park, but my wife fondly remembers Olympic Park in Irvington N.J. which was bigger then Palisades Park. She lived a couple blocks from Olympic Park and remembers 10 cent day.

[Cedwards38]

EPCOT at Walt Disney World.:BigApplause:

[Toms River T&D]

I remember Olympic Park, our 4th grade school, Raritan Intermediate School, Raritan, NJ, went there. It was huge and I remember the spinning wheel ride as being pretty scary. Also the pier at Seaside Heights when the rides seemed like you were over the ocean.

[bluedog103]

Palisades Park, without a doubt. I was there many times. An annual event was to be there on opening night. That park was fun!

[The Gerbs]

Asbury Park, NJ. Not the best amusement park, but the best memories. "Tillie" was a mural of a grinning face of Palace Amusements, and Tillie was the backdrop for a photo of Bruce Springstein and the EStreet Band in 1972. Then, or course there is the album "Greetings From Asbury Park".....

[big guy]

Kennywood in Pittsburgh PA and Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio are our favorites!

[Irish Red]

Palisades Park. It had it all!

[virgind]

Docked the boat at Cedar Point one year went there every night.

[TheVillageChicken]

The Moonlite Bunny Ranch.
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The one I miss .......mainly because I miss everything from the good old days

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[bagboy]

Growing up in central Ohio, we were right between Kings Island and Cedar Point. In my younger days, I was a big fan of roller coasters. I'd have to give the edge to Cedar Point. I've been to several Six Flags parks over the years, I still rate Cedar Point and Kings Island one and two.

[Chi-Town]

Riverview Amusement Park Chicago

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[tomwed]

try this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLVgEP8pOWQ
oh thank-you
You know I'm in that commercial. If you look real close you can see me waving. I'm wearing a shirt and some pants. I'm waving my left hand because I'm left handed. And I have a pinky ring.

[Phoneman]

River view in Chicago

[tomwed]

I remember Olympic Park, our 4th grade school, Raritan Intermediate School, Raritan, NJ, went there. It was huge and I remember the spinning wheel ride as being pretty scary. Also the pier at Seaside Heights when the rides seemed like you were over the ocean.
You're talking about the Wild Mouse, right?

[cologal]

thank-you
We used to go there too on nickel night.

In fact, we had our 8th grade Immaculate Conception in Secaucus NJ field trip there too. On that trip I went in the Tunnel of Love with Kathy Keller. Just when we started kissing it seemed like the ride was about to end. So I stuck my leg out and stopped the boat bracing it against something I could reach. We heard a big snap like some kind of chain broke or something. Very shortly the lights came on and everyone had to evacuate.

ah, the good times
[Sorry Sister Jovita if you are still around]

I lived at Lake Tamarack off of Route 23, it was an annual trip for the kids.

[cologal]

Anybody visit Glen Echo in Maryland?

[tomwed]

When my kids were just tots we use to go to Rahobeth beach on vacation and share a house with some neighbors. We packed that house pretty tight. They had the best little kid rides and cheap too. We went to some place for pizza and pitchers of beer that was the best. It started with an R.

[llaran]

Riverview !! On the 3rd page!! Where are all the Chicagoians ???

[villages07]

Anybody visit Glen Echo in Maryland?


Yep, many times. Remember the carousel and the big pool. I think it is an arts area now.

Also, Marshall Hall in the DC area.... They used to do Helicopter rides.

[Jim9368]

We live in The Village of Dunedin in the cold months an during the summer months live at Duck Creek RV Resort in our motor home. We are directly across the street from Michigan's Adventure which is an amusement park owned by Cedar Point so I need to vote for Michigan's Adventure in Muskegon, Michigan

[billethkid]

King's Island in Ohio and the Beast wooden roller coaster!!!

[birdawg]

As a child in the 60's it would have been Bertrand's Island in northern NJ...we would go once a year on nickel night.

Once we moved to Colorado it was Elitch Gardens in Denver, CO.

Sadly neither of these is in operation today....

Bertrand's Island. The best Roller coaster I remember nickel night

[manaboutown]

Most recently, Tivoli Gardens. As a child, Disneyland. I was 13 years old and visited there the year it opened, 1955.

[manaboutown]

Anybody visit Glen Echo in Maryland?

Yes, I did when I lived in the DC area back in the 1960's. Went to Marshall Hall as well. Both were nice parks back then.

[dbussone]

Canobie Lake Park in New Hampshire.

[CFrance]

Kennywood in Pittsburgh PA and Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio are our favorites!
Kennywood wins, hands down!

[Toms River T&D]

Yes Tom, couldn't remember it but it was The Wild Mouse. Haha

[OpusX1]

Cedar Point!

[tomwed]

Yes Tom, couldn't remember it but it was The Wild Mouse. Haha
Can you smell the sausage and peppers and that salty/fishy smell under the boardwalk? And my favorite indoor activity was SkiBall. I wasn't greedy. I would go for the 40 hole. And when the game was over the bell would ring, counting my score and spitting out those ticket. It took 15 hundred points to get a balsa wood plane that could do loop de loops and cost 15 cents in a store. But that didn't matter. I wasn't spending money, I was making an investment in learning yet another useless skill like diagramming sentences or counting to a hundred in Roman Numerals.

[dbussone]

I can smell the sausage and peppers, but I prefer to forget the smell of fish.

I love fish - have it several times a week - but if a fish smells fishy it is bad and not worth tasting.

[chuckinca]

Riverview !! On the 3rd page!! Where are all the Chicagoians ???

Riverview in Chicago's North Side was the best!

Especially on 2 cent day when most of the rides cost 2 cents with admission at 6 cents (or so).

[Nucky]

A triple tie for 1st place...Coney Island, Brooklyn N.Y.-Seaside Boardwalk, Seaside N.J.-Hershey Park, Hershey Pennsylvania. Beautiful memories. Seaside still in rough shape after The Sandy Storm, they are really trying to return it to it's glory day's.

[onslowe]

I was a Manhattan West Side kid, and for us Palisades Park across the Hudson was always the very best and most accessible.

But I must also give a nod to Rockaway Playland where I spent many a day down on NYC's "Irish Riviera." Great memories from the fifties and early sixties. :)

[jblum315]

You can't beat Playland Park in Rye NY, one of the oldest and so clean and attractive. When I was a child I used to love Waldemere in Erie Pa

[Bay Kid]

Buckrow Beach in Hampton, VA. 10 cent rides on Wednesday night.

[chuck90199]

As a kid... Pine Island Park in Manchester, NH and Canobie Lake Park in Salem, NH. Then, as an adult, Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Nothing compares to Cedar Point.

[tomwed]

Doesn't anyone else remember Uncle Milty's? I was beginning to think I imagined it.
Hudson Reporter - Memories of Uncle Milty s Milton Tone dies at 85 but leaves a lasting legacy (http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2402141/article-Memories-of-Uncle-Milty-s-Milton-Tone-dies-at-85-but-leaves-a-lasting-legacy)

[redwitch]

Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk. Loved it age six, loved it when I went back as a teen, enjoyed it as an adult. Really liked Magic Mountain in SoCal before the gangs took it over. Any Six Flags is on my wish list. But Santa Cruz will always be number one and Coney Island number two.