Back at Dollywood for Smoky Mountain Christmas 2021
Last weekend, I traveled to Dollywood for my annual visit to the park’s award-winning Smoky Mountain Christmas event. Each year, the park is blanketed in over 5 million lights and decorations...
Category: Holidays
The Return of Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
It’s beginning to look a lot like Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium! One of Central Ohio’s most cherished holiday traditions, Wildlights, efficiently powered by AEP Ohio, opened on Friday,...
Behind The Scenes of Carowinds’ WinterFest Preparations
Last month, we had the opportunity to go “Behind the Screams” at SCarowinds with Ryan Allen, manager of live entertainment for the park. What many guests might not realize is that...
WinterFest Begins at Canada’s Wonderland and Carowinds on November 13
In what can best be described on a war against Thanksgiving (this is a joke!), several Cedar Fair are getting into the holiday spirit very early with the return of WinterFest,...
2022 Coaster101 Calendars Now On Sale; 100% of Net Proceeds Benefit Give Kids The World
Halloween is over, that means it’s officially the Holiday season, and 2022 will be here before you know it! The best way to mark that occasion? A Coaster101 Calendar! We’re proud...
The Coaster101 Podcast: Behind The Scenes of SCarowinds, Winterfest & More with Ryan Allen
It’s the most wonderful time of the year at Carowinds, right in the middle of SCarowinds, WinterFest around the corner, with a full season of live entertainment coming up in 2022....
Sunday SCaries: SCarowinds 2021 Reviewed
After a year off in 2020 due to COVID-19, SCarowinds has returned to the state line, celebrating 20 years of fear at Carowinds. Boasting a line-up of five haunted houses (including...
Knott’s Scary Farm Returns for its 48th Season with Mesmerizing New Nightmares
Southern California’s largest immersive Halloween experience, Knott’s Scary Farm, returns with innovative new scares and bone-chilling thrills for its 48th frightful year. Terror comes to life as the theme park shifts...
Behind The Scenes: Carowinds Prepares for Grand Carnivale
One of the most exciting of Cedar Fair’s “new-for-2020” announcements (for me, anyway) was that my home park, Carowinds, would be adding their own version of Grand Carnivale, which took place...
The Coaster101 Podcast Episode 25: A “Taste” of the Season at Carowinds and Kings Dominion
Breaking News: Andrew visited a park in 2020 — well, actually two of them. Join John and Andrew this week on the www.coaster101.com/podcast as we chat about Andrew’s trips to Taste...
The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook Review
2020 has undoubtedly been a rough year for us all with the COVID-19 pandemic. This has especially been true for the amusement park industry, with parks across the country shuttering their...
‘Tis The “Season” at Kings Dominion’s Taste of the Season
Like so many other parks, 2020 was a very long year for Kings Dominion. The park was planning to open a new Soak City expansion; Coconut Shores, which would have attracted...
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