Just wanted to say regarding the complaints about mobility scooters: while it’s entirely plausible that a lot of people at amusement parks use those because they’re available/convenient and don’t actually need them, you really can’t tell that about a person just by looking. There are plenty of people who have real disabilities that require a mobility device at some times and not others, and as such they constantly have to deal with people telling them that they’re just being “lazy” or that their disability must not be real.
There’s a good thread here on the subject from someone who has experience on this front, and they go into how people constantly assume they must use a mobility device because they’re fat, as opposed to they’re fat because they need a mobility device (can’t walk/exercise normally). Context is people’s comments about Trump’s golf cart and how there are so many more horrifying and relevant things you can criticize him for that don’t involve mocking disability and the need for mobility devices.
TL;DR: don’t assume that just because someone looks like they shouldn’t need a mobility scooter that this means they are “lazy”, don’t actually need help, made poor life choices, are unhealthy, etc. Disability is often invisible, and that fact doesn’t make a disabled person’s need for assistance any lesser.
@Apreche the park in new Hampshire… Are you thinking of Canobie Lake? Every year my school would take the 7th graders there. I should gather up the gang and hit that up…
We went 2 years ago. It was surprising. I expected lame, but it was quite large, had good rides, was very clean and had a nice size crowd w/o being overcrowded.
Cedar Point is definitively number one, but a hard sell at 8 hours away. Places like Great Adventure and Hersheypark are consistently in Top 5 for coaster parks in the US, but are quite close.
