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End your summer with a bang by visiting America’s oldest continuing operating amusement park: Bristol, Connecticut’s own Lake Compounce amusement park. Lake Compounce has been a great place for families to have fun since 1846, and it would be a great place for your family to enjoy together before school starts back for the year. It is not only an amusement park but also has a full-scale water park, and there are fun rides that are sure to become our favorite if they aren’t already your favorite:
- Phobia Phear Coaster: New England’s first triple-launch coaster that uses LSM technology
- Down Time: A wild ride where you go to the top of a tower before plummeting 180 feet at 60 miles per hour
- Lights Out: A water slide that zips in & out of a darkened lighthouse at high speeds
- Mammoth Falls: A family raft ride where you can get soaked by splashes of water
- Daniel Tiger’s Grr-ific Day: An attraction that debuted in 2018 which is a great show featuring Daniel Tiger & Katerina Kittycat (and after the show there’s a meet & greet with Daniel Tiger & Katerina Kittycat!)
- Storm Surge: The theme park’s classic lighthouse waterslide
- Boulder Dash: The park’s classic world-famous roller coaster
- Carousel: One of America’s oldest carousels
- Ghost Hunt: A spooky interactive ride where you have to get to zap ghosts like a video game
- Bayou Bay: A wave pool
- Clipper Cove: A water playground
- Trolley: A genuine 1911 open-air trolley that takes you around the park
- Croc-O-Nile: A lazy river
Other attractions include:
- Ferris Wheel
- Bumper Cars
- Keeper’s Cottage
- Tunnel Twisters
- Sky Coaster
- Fantasy Carousel
- Venus Vortex
- Riptide Racer
- American Flyers
- Drop Zone
- Drum Circus
- Kiddie Swinger
- Little Critters
- Rainbow Riders
- Thunder N Lightning
- Twister
- Wave Swinger
- Zoomer’s Gas n’Go
- Rev-O-Lution
- Jolly Jester
- Flying Elephants
- Little Dare Devils
- Zoomerang
- Compounce Railway
Discount Tickets
You can save a lot of money by buying your tickets through Groupon. You can save 27% on single-day admission. No promo code or coupon is even needed. So hurry and buy these discounted tickets today while supplies last so you can enjoy wonderful family time this summer!