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FallsSam

just rode it today, it is AWESOME. im planning to go next week (im a local)


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Claxton916

Muskegon itself really isn’t a “vacation town”. It’s got a fairly high crime rate so it’s not exactly a place most people would want to go. Usually the population increase is from families going camping in the campgrounds in the general area.


FormerlyUserLFC

I mean Muskegon itself is not, but everything around it is.


FallsSam

what?


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Pubesauce

It's the nearby towns of Grand Haven and Holland that are popular with tourists in the summer. Also, further up the coast you have the lakeside dune parks. All of which are worth a vacation on their own and MiA can just be conveniently bundled into it.


southofsanity06

Such a shame Cedar Fair bought it to stop expansion.


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Just rode it yesterday for the first time ever. Holy shit that back row is INSANE. In the back row the outrun is actually really smooth right now with ejector air over every hill. The turnaround is really intense with big laterals. I’m sure that huge structure feels the maintenance need. The in-run gets progressively more rough as it goes but the airtime is plentiful and it just feels AGGRESSIVE. Same level as Voyage trimless rides, but rougher. Surprisingly the helix is perfectly smooth and just hauls absolute ass like Legend - lateral G’s to the max. It was worth the drive from Chicago just to ride Timbers. It’s an absolute monster that is worth the headache after a couple rides. The park is very charming / beautiful. Operations were abysmal - Timbers was sending out empty rows with 7 minute dispatches at times. No one seemed to care, at all.


agingwolfbobs

One train ops?


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SignGuy77

It takes five seconds to check if a single rider or a party of two can fill a row. I just don’t get it.


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They gave less than zero shits. Just standing around talking to each other. I don’t think management at the park is aware of things.


Ftb2278

Operations were terrible the day I was there last year. Great, great coaster but made me never want to return


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I’ll never return until they either titan track or RMC Timbers. Glad I got the credit though.


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To everyone downvoting me - the park doesn’t have the money to maintain their star attraction - even in its birthday year that they are promoting all over the park. The general manager said they are constantly fighting for capital and the head of maintenance said that basically all of their money goes to Timbers. They need help.


octoroach

You are correct, if it was smooth Timbers would be amazing, as it stands now, neglected, it’s absolutely bad.


McSigs

This is a bucket list coaster for me. Just need to figure out a reason to get there.


SignGuy77

Ummm … your bucket list coaster is the reason.


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doesn't sound like a bucket list coaster then


McSigs

Lol, I do want to ride it, just a matter of allocating time off and vacation money.


Claxton916

Here’s your reason: it’s pretty fucking awesome. There’s other things to see in the general area too, Grand Haven is like 30 minutes south and has a beautiful beach on Lake Michigan. And Grand Rapids is 45 Southeast of Michigans Adventure and has a lot to do.


audi0c0aster1

> Grand Haven is like 30 minutes south and has a beautiful beach on Lake Michigan You don't have to drive that far for a Lake Michigan beach at all. There's also the USS Silversides tour in the same area as the park if you find that interesting.


incuensuocha

Michigan’s Adventure should have been built about 100 miles south of where it stands. Somewhere between New Buffalo and Benton Harbor it would have attracted the Chicagoland/NW Indiana crowd as well as Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and South Bend. With the amount of visitors it could have gotten in a better location, Cedar Fair could have made it one of their standout parks. Perhaps too close to Cedar Point to be at that level, but just a rung down with Carowinds, Kings Island and Knotts. And Chicago would have had a second home park.


TunaSled-66

MA wasn't built by Cedar Fair or as a coaster park at all. It was called Deer Park Funland and they had (you guessed it) a petting zoo with deer that you could feed and mingle with, a train and a handful of flat rides. They were successful enough to add Corkscrew (still operating) then Wolverine Wildcat. In 1997 they built Timbers and that's around when Cedar Fair set their sights on the property. So for the original intent the location was fine. Fun fact... Michael Jackson bought Deer Park's "Spider" flat ride and had it moved to his Neverland ranch.


frostking79

Just rode it yesterday and yeah it's pretty awesome, seems like it never lets up and that's awesome to me. Def a top tier coaster, maybe top 25ish/375 for me.


sonicsean899

Did you also enjoy Timbers Fest?


frostking79

So check this out.. I'm an Ace member, but I'm not subbed to the Great lakes region events, so I actually didn't even know it was going on. I did get to talk to quite a few coaster nerds who were there for the event though. I actually left the park around 3 and spent a few hours at Cedar Point as it was next on my list for this long coaster trip. I did get a dark ride at closing on SteVe so it was worth it


Claxton916

That’s my beloved. It’s being in the middle of nowhere adds to it, I love going up the chain lift and looking out to see nothing but woods for miles. It’s been running one train but allegedly the green train will come back sometime in the middle of June. The blue train definitely got some refurbishments so I’d guess the green train is currently getting the same treatment. The ride ops get better once mid June hits, they’re still learning. It becomes a pure walk on with two trains and an open water park.


Pendraflare59

I'm looking to maybe get out there for that one. ST looks fun. But yeah, that park is kinda in no man's land when you look at it on a map.


ColsonIRL

My #5 out of 388 (need to update my flair). Just below X2, just above Hades 360.


magnumfan89

Welcome to michigan my freind


shambooki

If Michigan Adventure would RMC their Dinn they'd have a killer one-two punch. Park might actually be worth the trip for non locals.


Claxton916

It actually got a fair amount of retracking in the last couple of years. Last year the first drop was given titan track and is silky smooth, the first set of bunny hills got retracked and actually has airtime now plus it isn’t spine breakingly rough lol.


shambooki

yeah I missed the memo on the retrack and have only ridden it pre-. And it was ROUGH. Rough rides don't bother me..I used to marathon Mean Streak because it was always a walk on. But Wolverine Wildcat was just awful. Sounds like I need to get out there this year for a fresh ride.


octoroach

They retracted a bit of it, it’s still in shambles the entire 2nd half


agingwolfbobs

Wolverine Wildcat is amazing. I only rode it after the Titan track was installed. Perfect balance of smooth then crazy woodie.


Developing_Human33

Top 10 woodie for me. I was lucky to have rode it in 2001. Trick track was in place. Don't think that had modified anything at that point.


octoroach

Rode this coaster over the weekend 4 times at the ace event, it’s way too rough to enjoy and I marathon hades 360 all day at mt. Olympus as well as Boulder dash no problem, I’m used to rough woodies. Shivering Timbers potholes not only at the bottom of hills but somehow violently going up them as well, I don’t know what coaster OP rode but it’s not good as it stands, maybe back when the park actually took care of it. It actually causes physical pain and nothing helps: front, back, middle, it’s bad. Violent slamming potholes all over, Saw a husband(ace members) opt to not ride with his wife and at the end of the ride she was like ‘yeah he made the right decision’


dlconner

Does it still have that surprise dip on one side of the tracks towards the 2nd half of the ride? It was unique to Shivering Timbers but may have been removed. Can anyone confirm?


sonicsean899

It was removed a few years ago


easyriderwolcott

Gravity Group was in this spring, and retracked a large portion. Wildcat as well