![]() ![]() WaterWorks, Kings Dominion’s 20-acre water park, features a ¼-mile lazy river and a slide that sways back and forth called the Tornado, extending 65 feet into the air. ![]() ![]() The Volcano is a coaster that rockets out of a volcanic crater. The Grizzly is a wooden roller coaster based on Coney Island’s Wildcat coaster. The Dominator is said to be the world’s longest floorless coaster at 4,210 feet. It has 15 roller coasters, including the Intimidator 305, a mega coaster with a height of 305 feet and speeds up to 90 mph. It features live shows, thrill and family rides, and a water park. The park also includes Aquazoid whitewater rafting.Ī 300-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower stands in front of this 400-acre theme park near Richmond. For the thrill-seeker, Vanish Point water slide is ideal with two slides that have the option of a 75-foot-tall drop from a floor that drops from the rider’s feet or a horizontal start that shoots the rider out with water to the same drop.The Nitro Racer six-lane water slide is for students who want to race with friends. A section of the park called Rock ‘n’ Roll Island features a 700-foot Rambling River lazy river and three body slides. It claims to be mid-Atlantic’s largest water park with 43 acres of pools, lazy rivers and water rides. The sister water park to Busch Gardens is Water Country USA. Plus, I already have a broomstick pony.Aquazoid® WaterCountry USA (©2013 SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Inc. The kid in me was tempted to peek in and maybe boost one of those broomstick ponies, but really just for the thrill of the trespass. Nearly ready! Several shops were open and others were doing what, for the beach shop owners must be the equivalent of Spring cleaning. There hardly was any wind, so it made my work a little easier. This was my view of the boardwalk as I made my way from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! to the pier. “And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.” It’s from the last paragraph of “A Christmas Carol” so that makes it doubly appropriate. I captioned this photo on my personal Instagram account this way: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! still was decorated for Christmas, but that was fine with me. I waited, though, for the foot traffic to clear around Somerset Plaza to get this straight through shot. Give me a nicked up wooden ball, a mostly-warped sideboard and a handful of quarters and I’ll come home with the tackiest ticket treasure you’ve ever seen! Although it was a quiet enough day in Ocean City, there were still some people about. I’ll be honest, I don’t like the new games, with their plastic balls and 100 point ringers. I grew up near the Jersey Shore and developed an affinity for Boardwalk Skee Ball early on. Also, to be fair, I wanted to get the water tower as well as the rollercoaster and composing it was tricky. Not one to eschew hamfistedness, I took this photo. There’s something a little off kilter about an empty amusement park. I climbed the stairs at one of the local restaurants to get an alternate view of the Inlet Indian and the view of West Ocean City beyond. Click here for information about having us help you photoblog in Maryland. If you want to share photos of your own adventures anywhere in Maryland, we can help with that. When I go on these adventures, I often also post photos on Instagram, if you want to follow Ocean City there. As part of my latest Ocean City photo adventure, I started in the Inlet parking lot and then worked my way up to Somerset Street and finished with a Facebook Live broadcast on the pier. The place just looks different when there are fewer people. If you’re not too afraid of the cold, it’s a great time to get out and explore the nooks and crannies of the Ocean City Boardwalk.
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