Believe it or not, Sylvan Beach was one of the parks I was most looking forward to.
The park is a step back in time.
Picture a park from the 50s or 60s. That is Sylvan Beach.
The park is located next to Oneida Lake, which is a huge inland lake.
The park's coaster is a Galaxi.
It was one of the better Galaxies I have been on.
Nice drops and some decent forces in the helixes.
Laffland is the park's great classic dark ride. You can tell they take care of it. All the stunts worked and were in good shape. I really enjoyed it.
The park also has a collection of classic flats.
Roll-O-Plane.
A Tip Top. I do not believe these are very common anymore.
Tilt-a-Whirl.
New last year was this Rotor (yay Rotor!).
New this year is a classic-style Himalaya.
Not pictured are Bumper Cars, a Rock-O-Plane, Tea Cups, Bumper Boats, and possibly other rides I may have missed.
Any park with Fascination gets an automatic thumbs up.
Only 10 cents compared to 50 cents everywhere else I know of. I only played one game, but as we played the host did play-by-play to keep everyone updated on the others' status.
Looking down the midway.
This machine was really cool. For a quarter you punch your own text onto a souvenir coin. I got one with "Sxlvan Beach NX 6.17.2009" on it. "X" was apparently aligned with "Y".
Only the finest.
Standing in the public park, you can see how the amusement park is just part of the town.
The town of Sylvan Beach itself was also a trip back in time. You could tell nothing has changed in 50 years, and I mean that in a good way.
In the middle of town there is this memorial to our armed forces.
Due to the clouds, this was the closest it got to a sunset.
Sylvan Beach was pretty much exactly what I expected. A small old fashioned park that's a nice picture of how most parks used to be.
My first hotel of the trip was the Dwarf Line Inn. My room stuck with the town's time warp theme, but was clean, in good shape, and the bed was comfortable. The lady that ran the hotel was very nice and if I'm ever in town I'd stay again.
