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Adventureland Amusement Park
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
4 reviews for Adventureland Amusement Park
It's a very small park although not as famous as Coney Island's Astroland although it's much cleanier. I like the Adventureland Falls water ride. The funnel cakes are good and so were the bumper cars.
This amusement park has been operating for years and the signs of age is visible.
Really not a good amusement park. It's for the kiddies I suppose, altho they have some rides that make me queezy. If you're going to be for kids be for kids but this place teases adults and gives us a very unsatisfying amusement park experience. 10 years ago it was worse. Nunley's was the ultimate!
Oh Adventureland, you were my first job ever. I got to stand around in the intolerable sun wearing a goofy khaki safari uniform and try to get people to waste their money on games of chance. You even let me be a jerk and wear fishnet stockings and combat boots under my shorts...because I was just that cool (hey, it was 1993). I remember seeing all sorts of random Long Island celebrities show up on the weekends with their kids, I remember nearly passing out from the heat, becoming a Mortal Kombat II shark....it was awesome. I was 15.
As for the park, I mean, it was closer than Six Flags, cheaper, and something to do on a summer night if you were really really really bored.
I took my husband there over the summer so he could see a part of my past, and I was surprised at the upgrades. They have an ok arcade (it used to be better), lots of vendors schilling all sorts of glow in the dark crap, a terrible haunted house, water rides, a roller coaster...I mean, it's a small amusement park, and it delivers as either a fantastic place to bring young children, or a decent place for bored teenagers to hang out.
But I'll always love the memories of trying to convince people how utterly easy it would be to win their girlfriend a stuffed Homer Simpson doll by simply knocking down three milk bottles with a tennis ball. Actually, writing that, I feel like a bit of an ass. Sorry about that guys, it was really next to impossible to do.
As small regional amusement parks go, this one is pretty decent.
Adventureland has been around for decades and for a while, it was looking it's age. The place cleaned up it's act a few years back and added some neat new rides and stuff and it is actually a fun day over there.
I took my niece there and they have enough rides and games for any age group - granted it is no Six Flags, but then again, you don't have to drive 2.5 hours to get to it either.