Six Flags New England! Also Canobie Lake Park and Story Land (if you’ve got small children)

Water country, six flags, and canobie, basically

If you don't mind line cutters then Six Flags is good.

When the sun is blazing and the summer gets hot, Water Country's a very cool spot!

There's no better place to feel and be young! Water Country, have some fun!

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The ocean?

If you ever go to NYC Coney Island has many wild non coaster rides. Coney Island is what Revere and Nantasket should still be— nice big beach, promenade, great rides and lots of food.

The Big E in September has some crazy rides, no major roller coasters to speak of.

Canobie Lake is probably your best bet here. Many of their non coaster rides are more on the family friendly side but they have a few more thrilling ones that are quite good.

Palace Playland up in Maine has a few good thrill rides, and you can just buy tickets for the rides you want to go on as opposed to paying a flat admission fee.

I know Six Flags is overwhelmingly coaster focused but they just added a giant frisbee that's a lot of fun.

I second what someone else said about making a trip to Coney Island. That or just wait for the Big E to roll around.

We're lucky enough to have a number of charming, small amusement parks in New England (as well as Six Flags of course) but most our parks are geared more at families or coaster fans.

Definitely Holiday World, Kentucky Kingdom, and Kings Island. All are not a bad drive from each other. I've had season passes at all 3 parks and they're all great. Kings Island has the best coasters, Holiday World has the best theming and water park (the water coasters are a must plus Voyage is incredible, and Kentucky Kingdom is really easily walkable. The lines at KK and HW are also never very long. If you wanted to you could also hit up Indiana Beach after HW, although it's a bit out of the way of the other two parks.

Out of the 3, KI has the best food. If you want to get multiple rides on coasters or plan to go on a weekend, getting the Fast Lane pass might be worth it for KI as wait times can get long sometimes.

KK is easily doable in one day. HW is doable in one day, but the water park deserves its own separate day as there's so much to do there. The water coasters are the only things that have long lines, so if you intend to ride them, immediately go to them when the water park opens (one hour after the park opens). KI can be done in one day if you're okay with not doing every single thing at the water park. The water park there can get pretty crowded. Even in Saturdays and holidays, neither KK or HW felt nearly as crowded as a typical day at KI.

But the coaster lineup at KI is far superior overall to the other parks.

Depending on where you're coming from, if you wanted to you could also hit up my home park (Camden Park) and ride the Big Dipper and "Hawnted" House ride lol.

If you haven't been to cedar point yet, it's just a few hours drive from KI as well.

Kings Island trip is amazing, especially night rides on the wood coasters. Virginia trip is solid too, though you really need to wait to go when Pantherian is open. Hersheypark and Knoebels are also favorites and don’t sleep on Kennywood. I didn’t love the New England parks as much but still a solid trip and you might add Great Escape to those.

If you start at Knoebels, you can get to Hershey in an hour and a half. From Hershey you can get to Dorney in an hour and a half. From Dorney you can get Six Flags Great Adventure in an hour and a half. From Six Flags you can get to the Jersey shore boardwalk parks in about an hour and a half. This is the play.

Knotts is a really solid park.

Orlando and Tampa. With the Universal Parks, Disney Parks, SeaWorld parks, Funspots, and even Legoland.

Looking for something I can easily road trip. I live in the north east, so not really trying to drive all the way to the California, Texas, or Florida parks.

I’ve lived in eastern Massachusetts my entire life(38yo, big water park fan), and had absolutely zero idea this place even existed.

Don’t know if that’s a great sign to be honest. Especially with a quick google I see that tickets are 60 bucks a whack.

Watercountry - it’s big. Lots to do. Staff are professional and friendly. Maybe too many people

Great wolf lodge- all of us got sick days after going. Not going back there again

My daughter had her birthday party there last year. The kids had a great time. It is definitely smaller than GWL and in the summer I would say Water Country is a much better option. I believe WC is cheaper if not the same price, and there’s so much more to do. But for a crappy weather day Water Park of New England gets the job done.

There are 2 big slides, a climbing structure with smaller slides, an unimpressive lazy river, a toddler area, and some regular pools. No hot tub that I recall.

Go to water country, have some fun!

Just for info (some people seem confused by the question), Water Park of New England is the former Coco Key indoor park in Danvers. It's a bit smaller than Great Wolf Lodge (also a former Coco Key). I think both are fine although it's been a long time since I've been to either.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't "get" the Beast. Even at daytime it's a fantastic ride. But at night it's a monster.

I think The Beast is definitely competitive as far as "zero coasters" go - coasters that are special to you in a way that may not be quantifiable through stats or obvious features. In the context of that, I sometimes wonder if The Beast is more people's zero coaster than any other coaster out there.

I don't think The Beast is going to top anyone's list based on technical merit or wow factor, especially with a day ride. A night ride on The Beast is a special experience that a lot of people, including myself, feel has a significant amount of nostalgic and sentimental value, but I'm fully aware it isn't Steel Vengeance or Velocicoaster.

That said, The Beast (at night) is still KI's one true standout coaster. Unique, compelling, and always begging for a re-ride.

My number one coaster. Got 2 night rides this weekend. Unbeatable.

The best time to go is during the Haunt when it's 11 PM and foggy

Haunted Overload near Durham is crazy intense, even during the day

Barrett’s has their blackout night, which is fun but has gotten less intense over the years. 13th World has an EXTREEM night but it was mostly just silly. Fright Kingdom has a dark maze as part of their usual conveyor belt of fun, and I think they do a low-light or blackout night as well? Fear Town used to do a good and somewhat unhinged full contact night, but hasn’t the last couple of seasons.

I’d say Salem, but you’d have lots of company wherever you go.

The parking lot at Gillette after a Pats loss.

My mother in laws house

Kings Castle in whitman?

Whalom Park ,great place

I know exactly what you’re talking about but can’t for the life of me remember the name. It’s a CVS now

Edit: Supersports in carver off rt 58!

It was Starland! It was located where the 44/58 was built

The Brockton Fair had the VR ride, slide, and boats, but no go carts. Shaws was right across the street as was a blockbuster and a burger King. Edaville RR seems the more likely answer, though

Very cool rankings. The point system works solidly, though I might prefer an inverse curve where each step down the rankings loses fewer and fewer points. As in, the gap between having the #1 vs #2 coaster is more impactful than the gap between having the #375 vs #376 best coaster. And of course, limiting the list to the top 500 rides hurts parks like Canada’s Wonderland, which have lots of depth coasters that might be worth a very small amount.

Still, for the purposes of determining the best parks on the continent, this does the job well. Those modifications would probably only have a small impact.

I will continue to promote the methodology above, utilized by CoasterGuy23 in this now two-year old video: https://youtu.be/6uGfJEtsJvQ?si=okO55jlYdKR1rcEE

Valleyfair deserves to be down there, but seeing Mt Olympus above it is depressing. Oof.

Wasn't expecting to see Holiday World that high, even with The Voyage.

Post AlpenFury must be higher than Carowinds, no?

Curious what rankings may change next year for SFoG (adding Georgia Gold Rusher, a fun ride) and SFGAdv (because, you know).

Or were this year’s additions/removals already factored in?

Butterfly museum in Deerfield ma I think. There’s people’s pint for true farm to table food about 15 mins away. Dinner only.

Winslow Farm Animal Sanctuary. Norton.

https://www.winslowfarm.com/

I really like Drumlin Farm in Lincoln.It had a variety of wild and farm animals.

Trailside Museum is highly underrated if you don't want the hassle/expense of a big zoo. Go inside and check out the rattlesnake.

Southwick’s zoo will be your best bet. It makes the Stone and Franklin zoos look sad. The aquarium is great, but it’s on the smaller side.