Amusement Park Tier List (North America)

North America, primarily the United States and Canada, has several amusement parks and theme parks. I have been to quite a few, so I am ranking the best and worst amusement parks I've been to in a tier list.

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List of North American theme parks in the tier list:

Cedar Point
Michigan's Adventure
California's Great America
Valleyfair
Worlds of Fun
Dollywood
Dorney Park
Kentucky Kingdom
Busch Gardens Williamsburg
SeaWorld San Diego
SeaWorld San Antonio
Six Flags Mexico
Holiday World
Six Flags Great America
Six Flags Great Adventure
Busch Gardens Tampa
Carowinds
Hersheypark
Kings Island
Silver Dollar City
Six Flags Over Texas
Six Flags Fiesta Texas
Six Flags Magic Mountain
Knott's Berry Farm
Canada's Wonderland
Kings Dominion
Six Flags New England
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
Six Flags Over Georgia
SeaWorld Orlando
La Ronde
Six Flags America
Six Flags Darien Lake
Six Flags St. Louis
The Great Escape
Frontier City

[mariokartwii]

Six flags over texas in the same tier as Hershey, kings island, SDC, and magic mountain has got to be a joke

[MrKillerRC]

KI is S tier. Especially this year in their 50th anniversary. Great food and operations. KI is closing at 10pm all summer long. They even did a couple midnight closures. While CP was closing at 8pm until mid June.

[SuperNorstShow]

Having just been at Michigans Adventure, I can recommend it solely due to Shivering Timbers. No other woodie compares and it carries the entire park out of the bottom tier to C tier. I could marathon that all day.

[floridamaddogg]

First time I've disagreed with several of your choices, but it's your list. Kings Island and SDC are easily S tier and Sea World Orlando is one of my overall favorite parks period. It sounds like it's been sometime since you've been there, but the appearance is top notch, coaster lineup strong, and animal exhibits some of the best. I have BGT and SWO very close, with the edge to BGT because they have more coasters. Having just gone to, BGW, KD, and Carowinds last week, it's easy to see how much I like SWO overall.

[teddyking]

If you haven't been to kings island since before 2017 then you might as well say you haven't been. It's cool you still put them in tier A but you haven't rode 2 of their top 3 coasters. Your opinion on them could sway your opinion one way or another

[zachguest]

will there be a remake of this now that ya have been to all the cedar fair parks?

[ninjagirl]

I’m curious on where you would place the Disney and Universal parks.

[frestrike]

I respect you putting great adventure over parks like kings island and Hershey. I fell like that park and great America get flamed because they're six flags parks, and many enthusiasts hate six flags even if they don't have a valid reason. So its awesome to see no bias being put in by the overall chain.

[jacrispy]

Seeing my home park Great America as an S tier up there with cedar point is definitely surprising. Definetly the best bang for you buck in terms of Rollercoaster to ticket price. Any rides in particular make you give it that placement?

[SigmondonYoutube]

You should do a tier list ranking the Disney and universal parks in the us

[AirplanesAndAirtime]

omg did u try the giant swing at cw? its so fun. also one day i rode leviathan 20 times in a day.

[joeslovick]

Im guessing only been to hershey on the weekend bc m-wed you can do the whole coaster lineup (minus that trash laff track) in under 4 hrs pretty easily

[portturbo]

Next time you go to Kings Island, I promise it will be top tier for you, mystic and Orion and great, Orion gets too much hate I feel

[kboi]

I know you haven’t been to Busch Gardens Williamsburg, but I just have to say (in my personal opinion) it absolutely outshines the Tampa park in almost every aspect. It’s definitely worth visiting one day. The “one up” that I’d give to the Tampa park is Iron Gwazi, but besides that BGW is the better park imo.

It’s also only an hour away from King’s Dominion. So it’s definitely worth vacationing there for like 4 or 5 days. Spend a day at BGW then another day at King’s Dominion, then head to colonial Williamsburg for the sites, dining, tours, etc.

Great video btw, this is a great list. I’ve never been to Six Flags Fiesta and the more good things I hear about it the more I want to check it out.

[josephg]

Haven't been to most of these parks, but been to 4 of them. All the Texas parks plus SDC. I agree with your list as far as the ones ive been to for sure. Bucket list for me, i really want to go to Cedar Point at some day, it never ceases to come up in the coaster world.

[zacg_]

While I have very different taste from you (I generally prefer theme parks over amusement parks), I respect your ranking and it was fun to watch. I think your A tier will be a bit controversial for some but you can always expect that kind of thing for these tier list. Cool list.

[Owenostling]

You should do one with the Disney and universal parks I’m interested to see where you would place them.

[IndyCoasterCreator]

where is lagoon it’s a pretty substantially larger park than holiday is in it’s collection and imo is the second biggest independent park in between hershey and holiday

Also nice list I approve

[rorymclean]

Love the house music in the background lol

[AdamSmith-gsdv]

No Holiday World or Dollywood? Dude you need to get to this region of the country those are among my most favorite parks I have ever been to. Kentucky Kingdom is also very good, much better than one would expect