Kings Island has the best kids’ area in the world.
That’s according to Amusement Today, a trade journal that has given the Mason park its prestigious Golden Ticket Award — the amusement park industry’s equivalent of the Academy Award — for the 11th consecutive year.
The journal gives Golden Ticket awards each year in about two dozen categories as determined by park fans from around the world.
KI’s Planet Snoopy includes a collection of “Peanuts”-themed rides for children, including four kids’ roller coasters – more than any park in the world, according to Kings Island spokesman Don Helbig.
Planet Snoopy also features a live stage show and daily meet-and-greet opportunities with Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy and Linus and other Peanuts characters.
For the third consecutive year, the Beast was ranked as the seventh-best wooden roller coaster in the world. The Beast opened in 1979 and still stands as the longest wooden roller coaster in the world at 7,400 feet.
KI is closed until Friday, when gates to its Halloween Haunt opens at 7 p.m. Two kid-friendly Halloween events, the all-new Trick-or-Treat with the Dinosaurs and Howl-O-Fest, open Oct 1.
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