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Most Physically Demanding Park?

Of the ones I've been to...well none have been so bad.

Hershey Park is pretty hilly and can have some steep ones.
Six Flags Great Adventure is ALL cement. No trees or green, they just paved the whole thing and in summer...that place is brutal. You can cook on all that cement.


Despite it's size, I never had a problem with Cedar Point because IMO there's so many rides and with such a great layout it doesn't feel as big as it is.
 
As far as terrain in a park go, I've heard a lot of people complain about Dollywood, especially before they completed the loop.
Silver Dollar City, Ocean Park and Magic Mountain have all been mentioned. Marineland up in Canada has a LOT of dead space between far flung attractions, too. Ghost Town In The Sky I hear is pretty challenging, too.

I'll add a more obscure one to the list, mostly because I was just there on Sunday:

Enchanted Forest in Turner, OR.

Holy crap. I was expecting some little place like Storybook Land or even Great Escape. I was not prepared for what I found. BIG hill, and lots of up, up, up to get past all the nursery rhyme stuff to get to the actual rides.

Oh, another obscure one: Sagamiko Picnic Land. Another brutal hillside park with long climbs between attractions.
 
Am I the only one who didn't really notice any hills at Hershey? I must be fitter than I thought! :p

I've struggled at Port Aventura. Whilst its generally quite flat, when I went it was over 40*C and walking through the western area is so so hot and long. Besides from the other obvious parks, Tussenfryd is also pretty mental for hills.
 
Peter said:
Am I the only one who didn't really notice any hills at Hershey? I must be fitter than I thought! :p
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Yeah, I don't get it either. The place is a cake-walk.

Peter said:
Besides from the other obvious parks, Tussenfryd is also pretty mental for hills.
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It is actually, but it's not exactly demanding though, except maybe if you decide to go from the Supersplash to the giant frisbee thing. That's a bit of a mountaineering issue.
 
The Walk up to the woodie at Knight Valley nearly killed me. There are SOME escalators, but they were out of action. It wouldn't have made much difference though as they're only really on the first section of the hill...

Ocean Park was a killer, but mainly because of the heat. The biggest hill isn't a problem because there's the cable car/shuttle, but I guess there are some other hills you have to walk.

Matlock was really steep, so a bit vile, but the park is so tiny it doesn't really matter.

I really don't find Alton that bad... if you walk through the gardens then yeah, but that's completely optional...
 
Whoever goes to SFMM in the summer... Is an idiot, I'll just throw that out there right now. The time to go is in the Spring or Fall, not in the summer heat. And it's NOT because of the heat issue, it's mainly because of the crowds, or rather lack there of especially in the Fall or Spring, winter is just too cold. Thought it is really fecking hot in the summer, thus why I avoid theme parks entirely in such heat.

CoastingChris50 said:
My trip to Universal Studios was rough both parks opening to closing 90-95 degree temperatures.
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Universal Studio Hollywood, it's almost hell. The lower lot is only accessible by what seems like 1/2 mile of stairs. There's escalators of course, being Californians we tend to not take those, especially since they don't always work... What a pain in the ass, especially when you almost forget that you were supposed to go see Waterworld while you're amidst exiting The Mummy, sprinting up the stairs to get there on time...
 
Knight Valley, if just for the humidity in which you attempt to climb the mountain!
Alton obviously, as you have to plan your day in advance.
Also that hill at Busch WB that just came out of nowhere with stairs of death!
 
SFMM for me as well. THAT hill going up to Ninja is **** VILE <///3 BGW had its fair share of unwanted steps too, and an honorable mention to The Towers for those of us ever to have mistakenly trekked through the gardens in order to get to the other side of the park <///3
 
nadroJ said:
... and an honorable mention to The Towers for those of us ever to have mistakenly trekked through the gardens in order to get to the other side of the park <///3
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During Scarefest, at night, no lighting. Thought I was going to die, it was genuinely scary.
 
Once I went to Thorpe Park with friends in 2002, I thought I were gonna melt. What with the 30' deg heat, flu, & my friend making me go with him, as it was his 20th birthday. :shock:
 
Yeah, some (most) people seem to be missing the point of the topic.

Just because you go somewhere on a hot day does not make the park itself physically demanding. By that reckoning, my twenty-minute, downhill walk home from work is physically demanding because the sun was out a couple of weeks ago.
 
Gulliver's Matlock is pretty hardcore in the up-hill department. But there is a chairlift that goes to the top, so you can just walk down. But yeah damn.

BG Williamsburg and Alton Towers are tough because they are full day parks and everything is spread out really far. BG has the stairs of why too, and being a loop there isn't really a way to avoid taking tedious pathways. Great for first time visitors, but it's horrendous if you know the park fairly well.
 
Tibidabo is a good runner up.

6 levels perched on top of a steep hill. Long steep ramps to connect them, lots of stairs and just a couple of lifts that are usually so crowded that they are not worth waiting for.

Alton Towers could also take the cake on this one!
 
Joey said:
BG has the stairs of why too, and being a loop there isn't really a way to avoid taking tedious pathways. Great for first time visitors, but it's horrendous if you know the park fairly well.
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Really? Why would you ever take the stairs if you aren't riding the boats?

Aside from that one small area, the park is a cakewalk. Sure, here's a couple slopes near LNM and the stables. I've pushed a baby in a stroller there, it's not that bad.
 
Why would you walk around rather than take the stairs?

I wasn't referencing just the stairs though, I just meant in general the "loop" layout is tedious.
 
Europa Park, Purely down to the fact that the park is such a burden to navigate, your always backtracking on youself.
 
My style of touring parks is always "go, go, go!". It's just one ride to the next, I rarely stop. So by the end of the day, I'll start to feel it at any park really, and I'm in pretty solid shape. The most demanding physically and mentally is any Disney park. You better be prepared, it's a different world out there.
 
*Walt Disney World can give you a pretty good workout because of its shear size, but I was only eight the last time we were there, so it might not be as bad as I remember. I do remember my parents complaining about their feet hurting by the end of the day.
*Even though it's all flat, SFOG sucks not because of the size of the park, but because of the lack of shade. My sister nearly passed out and I remember there being hardly any drinking fountains and the bottled water being overpriced, even for a theme park.
*Dollywood gave me a good workout since it's so hilly. That climb/hike up to Slidewinder sucks...
 
The only way Disney World would make the list is if you visit the Swan and Dolphin resort, then get totally lost and end up in the maintenance delivery area whilst trying to walk to Epcot; but nobody would be stupid enough to do that, surely?

*shifty eyes*
 
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