Where do you like to go for a fun summer's day or weekend with some family or friends?

Are you the type that likes to go to the beach, relaxed with the book or some music by the water, maybe feel the cool ocean breeze on your skin?

Or are you the type that likes to go camping, a little hanging out in the woods, making some s'mores, maybe telling some scary stories?

Or are you maybe one of the millions of people who would rather visit theme or amusement parks every year?

In 2023, global theme park attendance reached a whopping 410.6 million, a 19% increase from 2022.

Asia Pacific led with 164.9 million visitors, followed closely by North America

with 161 million. Within the U.S., Florida attracted 76.9 million visitors, and California saw

51.3 million, both, of course, primarily due to their massive Disney properties.

But there are many more parks than just the ones owned and operated by Disney.

There's Universal Studios, Disney's most direct competitor, and New York-Coney Island,

famous for its roller coasters.

There's Ohio's Cedar Point, often called the roller coaster capital of the world.

Lindsay Monroe actually took a trip there several years ago together and loved it.

Lindsay used to go a bunch as a kid.

Not me.

Roller coasters are not my friends.

Thank you motion sickness and a weak stomach.

But I do love a water slide in a wave pool.

There are the many, many six flags across the U.S.

to say nothing of the dozens, if not hundreds of smaller localized parks like Silverwood,

just north of Cordillane, offering both fun of the sun and maybe a taste of danger.

After all, a theme park would not be a theme park without a little bit of danger, or at least

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