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How do you define "Home Park"?

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Bat Fastard

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I thought about this while at Worlds of Fun the other day. While Worlds of Fun isn't the closest park to me, it is easily my most visited. WOF is 3 hours away from me, but I go at least 2 times a summer. Frontier City is the closest park to me, at an hour and a half away. I have never been there, even though it is the closest park to me. The reason why I've never been is because it doesn't look that great to me. Maybe I'll make a cred run later this summer. So do you consider your "home park" the park closest to you or the park you've visited most?
 
I think it's a mix of elements. I would say that a "home park" is a park that you feel attached to for different reasons (maybe it was the first park you attended, the one you visited as a kid, where you became an enthusiast, etc.) and/or a park that happens to be close to you.

In my case, for instance, I have a tough call to decide what my home park is: on the one hand, Tibidabo is the park closest to me since it's in Barcelona and I feel attached to it because I worked there for several seasons and I have seen it "grow" (not that it's anything mind-blowing but it's cute in a way), but on the other hand PortAventura is where I would say that I discovered what being a real coaster enthusiast meant and the one with significant and steady additions that lead me (or used to) to visit several times each season.
 
^So which one do you consider your home park? Tibi or PA?

As for me, I always have called Six Flags Great Adventure my home park because it's the local park I visit the most, even though there are about a half dozen or more parks that are closer.
 
Probably the park I visit the most - I would consider Thorpe Park to be my home park, even though geographically Chessington and Adventure Island are closer, Thorpe is the park that feels most familiar to me.
 
I would say the park nearest to where you live... but also the one you visit more often // like more?

When I lived in Boston, Canobie Lake was my home park (and not even in my home state!) but in theory Salem Willows or Salisbury Beach *should* have been it, I always considered Canobie to be my home.
Living in Orlando, I have like 10 parks to pick from. I literally live across the street from Universal Studios, I work at Disney, but I visit SeaWorld and Fun Spot the most. Not being a fan of Uni, I say Fun Spot is my home park now (its 3 blocks away?)
 
I have 4 home parks anything in an hour to 2 hour journey time. So Thorpe Chessington Legoland and Adventure Island.
 
ECG said:
^So which one do you consider your home park? Tibi or PA?
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If I was to choose based on what park I have visited the most intentionally (and not for work purposes), I'd say PA.
 
None, haha. One of the 'perks' of living in (coaster-wise) such a remote country as Slovenia is. There's not a single park in this world that I've visited in two consecutive seasons. If we are going by which park is the closest to where you live I should then go with either Gardaland or Mirabilandia, since these are the two I've visited the most so far in my life. But you can't really call a park that's a good 4 hour drive from your home and that you haven't visited in 3/4 years your home park, can you?
It also tells a lot that 2 parks that have A coaster and are closest to my home aren't even listed on rcdb, because nobody has ever heard about them. And rcdb has coasters listed in world's most remote places such as Siberia, Kazakhstan or China's more mountainous regions...

Also, I'm yet to visit a park this year. There's definitely a will, but there hasn't been a way (yet).
 
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Well, living not even 5 minutes to Six Flags Great America, I can't really argue what my home park is. :p

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The closest park to your place of residence that you visit on a regular basis.
 
I would define it as the closest park to you. I would say you should live relatively close to it also. Like I never thought about calling a park my home park since the closest parks are Compounce, SFNE, and Canobie and they are all over 2 hours except for Canobie which is a hour and a half. I don't visit any of those parks regularly so I really don't consider any of them my home park.
 
The one I visit the most mixed with proximity to my home. Cedar Point has triple the amount of visits than any other park I've visited, so home park. When I lived in NE Ohio, Waldameer was closer and I visited more often but now that I live much farther away, CP it is.
 
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GuyWithAStick said:
Well, living not even 5 minutes to Six Flags Great America, I can't really argue what my home park is. :p

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I'm jealous man. If I was that close to a great RMC, I would be there at least once or twice a week.....
 
For me its not the closest one. I think the closest is Drayton Manor to me, but Alton Towers always feel more like home. AT happens to be my first park and my most visited one as well.
 
For me it's the park that I visit the most. Wickstead Park is my closest park but I haven't been there for about ten years.
Therefore Thorpe is my home park, because it is less than two hours away (so close) and I visit often.
 
I guess my home park would have been Camelot. But to me Blackpool was more the home park. As I always went every year.
 
Ocean Park is closest and quickest to get to, but I'd call Disneyland my home park since I go there more often and feel much more familiar with it. It still only takes about 45 minutes or so to get to, whereas Ocean Park is about half an hour, so there's not much in it.
 
At my parent's, I'd have to call my 'home park', Thorpe Park because it is the nearest park that I visit in a regular basis, but the closest park to me is Wicksteed Park, half the distance in comparison to Thorpe, but I've never been. In fact Wicksteed Park, Gulliver's MK and Pleasurewood Hills are all closer and Joyland (Gt Yarmouth), and Gt. Yarmouth Pleasure Beach are pretty much the same distance as Thorpe. If I had all the creds at those nearer parks I'd have 13 more creds. Wow.

Looking at where I live in Portsmouth, Clarence Pier is a 10 minute walk and I visit often so that's my home 'park'. :D
 
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