Most ridden coasters & most visited parks?

[TilenB]

Good idea for another list topic! I've spent the last half an hour putting this into my spreadsheet to get some sort of meaningful data for my list. There are some approximations for my pre-spreadsheet visits to Gardaland and Mirabilandia, but other than that my data should be fairly accurate. I've ridden 254 different coasters in 69 different parks (I'm not quite sure what the universe is trying to tell me keeping me at this number due to the pandemic) for a total of 589 coaster rides over 96 park visits. The remainder of my coaster count is comprised of funfair coasters of which I've ridden 52 (or technically 54, since I've done both Olympia Looping and Höllenblitz at Oktoberfest as well as in Wiener Prater) at 22 different funfairs for a total of 61 coaster rides.

My top 10 most ridden coasters are:
1. Katun, Mirabilandia (17 rides over 4 visits)
2. Troy, Toverland (15 rides on 1 visit)
3. Hyperspace Mountain, Hong Kong Disneyland (12 rides on 1 visit)
=4. iSpeed, Mirabilandia (11 rides over 4 visits)
=4. Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars, Hong Kong Disneyland (11 rides on 1 visit)
=6. Ortobruco Tour, Gardaland (10 rides over 6 visits)
=6. Raptor, Gardaland (10 rides over 3 visits)
=6. Black Mamba, Phantasialand (10 rides over 3 visits)
=10. Shaman, Gardaland (9 rides over 6 visits)
=10. Blue Tornado, Gardaland (9 rides over 3 visits)

My top 5 most visited parks are:
1. Gardaland (8 visits between 1999 and 2019)
2. Mirabilandia (7 visits between 2003 and 2012)
3. Wiener Prater (7 visits between 2012 and 2017)
=4. Europa Park (3 visits between 2007 and 2016)
=4. Phantasialand (3 visits over 2015 and 2016)

Top 10 parks in which I got the most coaster rides:
1. Gardaland (56 rides on 8 different coasters)
2. Mirabilandia (48 rides on 8 different coasters)
3. Europa Park (40 rides on 13 different coasters)
4. Phantasialand (29 rides on 7 different coasters)
5. Toverland (28 rides on 4 different coasters)
6. Hong Kong Disneyland (25 rides on 3 different coasters)
7. Wiener Prater (23 rides on 13 different coasters)
8. Six Flags Magic Mountain (15 rides on 14 different coasters)
=9. Efteling (14 rides on 7 different coasters)
=9. Walibi Belgium (14 rides on 7 different coasters)

Yeah, mine are also due for an update, since these have changed quite a fair bit over the past 3 years. The first two post-pandemic trips in particular had a big impact on my numbers, as they were mostly based on revisiting some of the old favorites.

Top 10 most ridden coasters are:
=1. Troy, Toverland (23 rides over 2 visits)
=1. Taron, Phantasialand (23 rides over 3 visits)
3. Katun, Mirabilandia (17 rides over 4 visits)
4. Wildifre, Kolmarden (15 rides on 1 visit)
=5. Silver Star, Europa Park (12 rides over 4 visits)
=5. Black Mamba, Phantasialand (12 rides over 4 visits)
=5. Hyperspace Mountain, HK Disneyland (12 rides on 1 visit)
=8. iSpeed, Mirabilandia (11 rides over 4 visits)
=8. Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars, HK Disneyland (11 rides on 1 visit)
=10. Ortobruco Tour, Gardaland (10 rides over 6 visits)
=10. Raptor, Gardaland (10 rides over 3 visits)
=10. Dwervelwind, Toverland (10 rides over 2 visits)
=10. Hals über Kopf, Tripsdrill (10 rides on 1 visit)

Top 5 most visited parks haven't changed particularly much:
1. Gardaland (8 visits between 1999 and 2019)
=2. Mirabilandia (7 visits between 2003 and 2012)
=2. Wiener Prater (7 visits between 2012 and 2017)
=4. Europa Park (5 visits between 2007 and 2022)
=4. Phantasialand (5 visits between 2015 and 2023)

And finally parks with most coaster rides:
1. Phantasialand (69 rides on 8 coasters)
2. Europa Park (68 rides on 13 coasters)
3. Gardaland (56 rides on 8 coasters)
4. Mirabilandia (48 rides on 8 coasters)
5. Toverland (46 rides on 5 coasters)
=6. Tripsdrill (34 rides on 6 coasters)
=6. Energylandia (34 rides on 17 coasters)
8. Walibi Belgium (28 rides on 10 coasters)
9. Hong Kong Disneyland (25 rides on 3 coasters)
10. Plopsaland De Panne (24 rides on 9 coasters)

 

[JoshC.]

I imagine it's similar for those who live near Thorpe Park / have Thorpe Park as their local. As there's been many midweek days there where I've hit 20+ rides on both Stealth and Swarm, because they let you sit on the same train and go again and again. In 2019 it felt like every time we visited outside of Fright Nights was like this. I wonder what @JoshC. REAL Nemesis Inferno count is, because I think he's being very conservative with 140 based on my midweek experiences there.

Yeah, I wish I'd tracked it more carefully (little JoshC. was the sort of geek who would have done it, but those numbers are long lost), but genuinely no clue.

I'm not a big lapper of rides though. And with Thorpe, especially in recent years, I've found myself in a weird trap of saying "I can do this whenever" to the point that there's some rides I don't ride for months / maybe only once a season. It probably will be more than that 140 figure for Inferno, and I reckon Stealth will be higher too, but definitely not significantly.

Thinking about it, Flying Fish will definitely be the highest though...I would have lapped it multiple times when I was a kid.

 

[Dan Nguyen]

Busch Gardens Williamsburg is my home park, so it has my most ridden rides. Apollo is probably the one coaster I've ridden the most, followed by Verbolten, Alpengeist and Pantheon.

Kings Dominion is my next home park. 305 and Timbers pretty much get the most rides from me. Dominator comes in third.

The Florida parks have also been home parks to me. I've got plenty of rides on most of the coasters down there,
Uni - Forbidden Journey for regular rides. I'd probably say RRR or Mummy have my most rides coaster-wise. Hulk is up there. VC and Hagrids will definitely catch up as I ride those more often.

Disney - depends on the park. My favorite marathon rides are Thunder, Everest, and Tower of Terror. I've got a pretty high ride count for most of the stuff at Epcot as well. Love that park.

Sea World - Mako definitely. Its my favorite coaster there, so I've got the most rides on that. Then Kraken, Manta, Ice Breaker, Pipeline, JTA

BGT - Cheetah Hunt, Kumba and Montu have my most rides. Gwazi will inch its way up to the top. I tend to ride that as many times as I can when I visit.

 

[cookie]

If we count by individual days, my most visited parks are:

Hansa Park - 19 visits (2002 to 2023)
Tivoli Gardens - 13 visits (1997(?) to 2022)
Bakken - 10 visits (2002 to 2020)
Liseberg - 8 visits (2009 to 2023)
Phantasialand - 7 visits (2017 to 2023)
Europa Park - 6 visits (2016 to 2023)
Disneyland Paris - At least 6 visits (1999 to 2021, returning there in May)
Walibi Belgium - 5 visits (2021 to 2022)