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Rank Your Cedar Fair Parks

This is tough, as most of them are rubbish, but I'll go...

7. Kings Dominion - A truly awful theme park. Home to some of the worst roller coasters in the world in Hurler, Rebel Yell and Grizzly, everything's grey and there's no shade to be found anywhere. Maybe it has got better since building I305, but from my experience it was just terrible.

6. Knott's Berry Farm - It's a shame, as this park could be (and apparently used to be) so much more. Xcelerator is excellent, and Montezooma's Revenge is still a fantastic ride for it's age. Cedar Fair has let this park go to rot really, with seemingly little maintenance for any of their rides and allowing a once table-topping coaster in Ghostrider plummet down people's lists.

5. California's Great America - Despite the surprisingly good and extremely forceful B&M Inverted, this park doesn't really have a lot else. Vortex comes very close to the top of my "worst coasters" list, I remember having very little shade anywhere in the park (a common theme with Cedar Fair parks) and everything's very grey. Just look below to see what I'm talking about...
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4. Gilroy Gardens - Granted, this park doesn't really have any noteworthy rides, and Cedar Fair have implemented their typically overzealous safety approach to each attraction, but I enjoyed their novel approach to theming and the circus trees are interesting. Middle position for a middle park.

3. Dorney Park - I admittedly didn't spend too much time in this park and missed out on a fair few rides, but the rides that I did do where all very good. Talon is a excellent coaster, Hydra is nowhere near as bad as some people make it out to be, Steel Force is fun and their woodie isn't as bad as other Cedar Fair woodies. A good all-round selection of coasters I feel.

Joint 1st. Valleyfair! and Worlds of Fun - I find it very hard to split these 2 parks, and these both get my top spot as they're the parks I had the most fun in. Prowler and Renegade are both fantastic GCIs, Steel Venom and Patriot are both fun, and most of the other rides are all decent enough. Neither of these parks are in the same league as Disney, Busch or some of the other big-hitters, but for Cedar Fair these parks are excellent.
 
My assumptions

Cedar Point
Canada's Wonderland
Kings Island
Knotts
Kings Dominion
Carowinds
Dorney Park
Worlds of Fun
Valley Fair
Great America
Michigan's Adventure
Glory Gardens

My personal list

Kings Island
Canada's Wonderland
Cedar Point
Kings Dominion
Carowinds
Knotts
Dorney
Worlds of Fun
Valley Fair
Great America
Michigan's Adventure
Glory Gardens
 
Of what I have visited:

1. Cedar Point
2. Kings Island
3. Worlds of Fun
4. Knott's Berry Farm
5. Geauga Lake (still counts!)
6. Dorney Park
 
3. Kings Dominion - While I305, Volcano, and Dominator are great rides, the atmosphere is just sub-par. Most areas have very confused theme like Volcano and Backlot Stunt Coaster being beside each other and Flight of Fear and I305 also being beside each other. The park is a bit jumbled and not well put together. The park is one of the lesser parks I've been to.

2. Kings Island - This is my second favorite seasonal park with a beautiful environment (in the back at least) and unbelievable rides. The park is well put together and has good operations. The woods of the park add to the great environment it provides. If a park has The Beast, it has to be one of my favorites.

1. Cedar Point (of course) - just the best park of all time! Cedar Point has just about everything. Beautiful environment, check, world's best roller coasters, check, great food, check, on a peninsula, check, tons of roller coasters, check. Cedar Point is just all in all my favorite park. Please be reminded this all my opinion and lots of people would disagree with my assumptions so remember, this is IMO.
 
I've been to Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Cedar Point, Dorney Park, Kings Dominion, Kings Island, Knott's Berry Farm, Michigan's Adventure, Valleyfair! , and Worlds of Fun (KI,KD, and Caro I've done both as CF and Paramount parks.... Canada's Wonderland I've only been under Paramount rule)

I'd place them...
Canada's Wonderland - So many poor coasters.... but so many amazing flats!
Kings Dominion - Home-Away-From-Home park for me. kinda grew up going here.
Valleyfair! - big surprise for me... and Renegade was fantastic.
Carowinds
Worlds of Fun - better than I thought but could still use some work.
Dorney Park - Kinda blah... but I like Talon and Steel Force and It's never been busy when I've gone (some 15 times)
Kings Island - Invertigo/DropZone/Diamondback :D
Cedar Point - So much... but so little good
Knott's Berry Fun - boring! Outside of Xcelerator
and
Michigan's Adventure - Just awful
 
Whilst none of the parks are mine, I guess I could rank them anyways. As far as I'm concerned, they are all pretty middle-of-the-road parks with none truly amazing and none completely dreadful. I am probably way odd compared to most in my order, though.

IMO:
Canada's Wonderland - Amazing variety, and despite some numbingly huge crowds, they still manage to churn through the lines very well.
Knott's Berry Farm - Cedar Fair is doing everything they can to make this place mediocre, but there's still a lot of charm for me in Ghost Town, Calico Mine Ride and that awesome flume ride.
Gilroy Gardens - Such a cool little park. It really hits the families with young kids demographic well, and is simply beautiful too.
King Island - What can I say? I like the place.
Kings Dominion - Really found KD interesting under Paramount. CF has largely left the good alone here.
Carowinds - Um. Decent. The state-line gimmick is pretty cool, though. Must be a huge headache trying to schedule employees, state inspections, accounting, etc though.
Valleyfair Nice enough, but kind of small and the layout is pretty poor.
Dorney Park - CF hasn't sucked ALL of the charm out of this park yet, but it's close.
Geauga... Oh, wait. Never mind.
Worlds of Fun - This park used to have a really cool 'Around The World in 80 Days' theme. Yeah, CF killed that too.
California's Great America - So much deja vu walking around this one after working at 6FGAm. Top Deck is awesome, but the rest of the park not so much.
Michigan's Adventure - I didn't hate my trip to the park, and nothing stuck out as truly awful aside from the dead-end layout.
Cedar Point - If I'm on board Millennium Force, I'm good. If I'm not, the Point sucks the life out of me. Blech. The biggest problem for me may be the failure to achieve its potential, and match my expectations.
 
Out of the ones I have been to:

1. Canada's Wonderland - A good mix of rides, coasters, and atmosphere

2. Kings Island - Not a terrible park as far as atmosphere goes either, and it also has a decent selection

3. Geauga Lake <3 The bomb, mostly for nostalgic value but I really did enjoy all my visits there

4. Cedar Point - A concrete slab with a solid collection of rides and coasters

5. Kings Dominion - Kind of the same as Cedar Point really as far as a poor atmosphere and good rides go, but actually there's not that many good coasters. It's a case of quantity for this one

6. Worlds of Fun - Has a few solid coasters, and an okay atmosphere

7. Dorney - A bit mediocre but they had a few good rides I guess

8. Knotts Berry Farm - I'd rank it higher if I got to spend more time there instead of just rushing around and not getting to ride much, but it seemed like it was sort of mediocre at best

9. Carowinds - Ugh, it was pretty vile, but I think a lot of that has to do with the fact it was like 800 degrees when we went. The park is pretty bad apart from one coaster.

10. Michigan's Adventure - Now that Shivering Timbers kind of sucks, the place is only good for either wanting to cool off in the water park, or wanting to have your retinas burned out by white concrete.
 
2. Dorney Park. You snake down the hill picking up creds and then snake back up the hill doing them again. Then you go home.

Actually, I really enjoyed Steel Phantom and Possessed (or whatever it's called). Talon was a solid "good" B&M. The rest was completely forgettable, as was the park. No real atmosphere, just a collection of rides that were worth an hour or two going on.

1. Kings Dominion. A complete mixed bag of stuff jumbled together. Some areas were dire, others really nice. Some rides "good" or "fun", others utter pants. Lots to do though and you can at least fill a day there. It's kind of like Flamingoland on steroids.

Yeah, great collection there by me :lol:
 
That's easy as I've only been to Knott's Berry Farm.

That's right at the bottom of my list.
 
furie said:
2. Dorney Park. You snake down the hill picking up creds and then snake back up the hill doing them again. Then you go home.

Actually, I really enjoyed Steel Phantom and Possessed (or whatever it's called). Talon was a solid "good" B&M. The rest was completely forgettable, as was the park. No real atmosphere, just a collection of rides that were worth an hour or two going on.

1. Kings Dominion. A complete mixed bag of stuff jumbled together. Some areas were dire, others really nice. Some rides "good" or "fun", others utter pants. Lots to do though and you can at least fill a day there. It's kind of like Flamingoland on steroids.

Yeah, great collection there by me :lol:
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Same as furie basically. It's just that I thought Dorney was utter crap, one of the worst parks I've been to! And KD was really good tbh, I might actuallt dare stick out my tounge and say it was 'amazing'!

Dorney: biggest slab of concrete I've ever witnessed!! (Ok, maybe tied with Six Flags America) Such dull environments, and situated next to a busy highway which you can see from the park.. And then there's the rides. All very poor except Hydra. The woodie was rough, the hyper was as Sue said "a giant kiddie cred" :p, possesed was boring and while it's hard to consider Talon 'bad', it's certainly nothing too exciting either.. Hydra had o good mix of possitives and negatives though, and did something different than the rest of the B&M's :)

Kings Dominion: they had pretty much concrete too tbh :p Some areas where a bit average while others like the entrance and the area around Volcano was very good! But what made this place great was the rides :) A lot of good coasters combined with some stellar ones!! Backlot was a surprice since I've only heard bad stuff of this coaster, great family ride! Avalanche was a short but sweet bobsled with a pop of airtime! Volcano is a blast! ^^ The woodies suck though.. And then there's the awesome rides, and lots of them: Dominator (powerful B&M), Drop Tower (best one I've been on), Flight of Fear (awesome and underrated ride!) and my current #2 the extraordinary Intimidator 305! <3

Hope I'll get to visit some more Cedar Fair parks soon...
 
1: Cedar Point- Clear winner.
2: Kings Dominion- Some good, and some not so good, but lots to do and good lineup all around.
3: Knott's Berry Farm- Hard to pick between this and WoF, but Xcelerator is good!
4: Worlds of Fun- For a smaller park, this place has a great lineup!
5: Valleyfair- #1 in my heart! Needs a B&M badly though.
6: California's Great America- Had a bad experience my only visit... need to give it another shot.
 
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