Hey, Dollywood local and AP holder: it is a major vacation destination. The two resort hotels are always near filled during peak season, we get a ton of international guests, and the park is seeing more people from across the US than ever with people spending 2-3 days on property between multiple park days and Splash Country. It is definitely on par now with Cedar Point as a place people are actively booking stays to visit.
I’d call Cedar Point regional too so I think my bar might be a bit too high.
IMO any park that has a resort and people stay for more than 2 days is a destination park. Technically Universal is a regional park too as most stay 3 days max.
It's cost cutting. Soon the parks will one food stand each
Futurama is the Michael Myers of tv shows, it just will not stay dead
Sure. They have way more live entertainment around the park - they also have Fantasmic.
Oh right…. But electric parade runs. I forgot! Haha
By number of entertainment options DL park wins. Will be interesting to see if Festival of Fantasy keeps running after the new night time parade.
Magic Kingdom - 17.72 million
It gets the highest visitors of any park outside of the LA and Orlando markets….. that’s kind of the point.
It's also not open year round like the parks in the swamp.
Where’s Islands of Adventure?
Where's Cedar Point? It hit 4 million guests this season. That's really good for a park only open for 6 months.
It's got a long ways to go on the attendance side of things (and hopefully the new coaster this season helps in building more momentum), but I'm immensely proud of how my local park Lost Island beat Ratatouille for Best New Family Ride in the Golden Ticket Awards a few years ago.
