California Theme Parks

California vacations offer you everything from beaches to mountains, from vineyards to theme parks. The grandeur of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge or Disney's Magic Kingdom in Anaheim, San Diego offers beaches, a world-class zoo during your trip is an experience of a lifetime. But if you want some great options along with some theme park fun, there are lots of theme parks in the Golden State, not to mention hotels, restaurants, and other vacation options. Location of most of the major California parks is within major metropolitan areas. The astounding world of theme parks means Famous playgrounds, wildlife parks and movie magic — fun and fantasy for the entire family!
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Plan to make your vacation to California Theme Parks More Enjoyable

1. California's parks are more sprinkled throughout the state.
2. To avoid unnecessary delays and waste of time, try to plan your trip away from holidays, school vacations and the summer to find smaller crowds and better deals.
Weekend day trips by locals boost attendance considerably.
3. Remember that while most of the major California parks are open year-round, some theme parks close some mid-week days during the off-season and some theme parks close altogether in the colder months.

Famous Theme Parks in California:

•  Disneyland Resort: Situated in Anaheim (Orange County), the original Disneyland theme park uses a amazing arrangement to connect the Sleeping Beauty's Castle at its center with the themed lands: Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, Mickey's Toontown, Adventureland, Fronteirland, New Orleans Square, Critter Country and Main Street, USA. Disney's California Adventure theme park has some great concepts and wonderful themes with latest additions such as the Tower of Terror, a modern-day classic Disney theme park attraction combining a thrilling freefall ride, dazzling effects, and an inspired and intelligent storyline based on the seminal "The Twilight Zone" television series, Aladdin stage show, a Musical Spectacular, Disney's Electrical Parade and more

•  Six Flags Magic Mountain (in Valencia near Los Angeles): Initially the theme of this theme park had a rather connection with cute gnomes that lived in a Magic Mountain. After Six Flags came on the scene, it expelled the gnomes, rose up the testosterone level, and fashioned what it calls the "Xtreme" park. Six Flags Magic Mountain theme parks now have one of the world's biggest awe inspiring --arsenals of coasters.

•  Legoland California (near San Diego): Visualize a whole theme park constructed and ornamented out in its primary colors, out of Legos. The prominence here is on the under-12 set. There many of the attractions are wildly inventive, hands-on, interactive, Lego-themed creations along with the requisite roller coasters in this theme park in Carlsbad.

•  Universal Studios Hollywood (in Los Angeles): The most ancient of movie theme parks, Universal Studios Hollywood, is an actual working movie studio and the tram tour is still a crucial part of the USH experience. Some of the features of this theme park are Terminator 2:3-D and Jurassic Park...The Ride, and some are unique such as Backdraft and the WaterWorld show which attract all the tourists.

•  Bonfante Gardens: The two divisions of this garden are botanical gardens and theme park. Bonfante Gardens in Gilroy (near San Jose) steers clear of high-adrenaline thrill rides and high-profile themed attractions for a simpler, stress free experience. The trees and grounds are attractive and the theme park is a lovely place to communicate with nature. The theme park has safe rides are geared to the younger set of children.