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TRAM & MONORAIL
With a ticket to Disneyland, you can ride the monorail between Tomorrowland and the far
end of Downtown Disney, near the Disneyland Hotel.
AROUND DISNEYLAND
Within 10 easy miles of the Mouse House you'll find a big scoopful of sights and attrac-
tions worth a visit in their own right.
Knott's Berry Farm
America's oldest theme park ( GOOGLE MAP ; 714-220-5200; www.knotts.com ; 8039 Beach
Blvd, Buena Park; adult/child $62/33; from 10am, closing time varies 6-11pm; ) , Knott's is
smaller and less frenetic than Disneyland, but it can be more fun, especially for thrill-seek-
ing teens, roller coaster fanatics and younger kids.
The park opened in 1932, when Walter Knott's boysenberries (a blackberry-raspberry
hybrid) and his wife Cordelia's fried-chicken dinners attracted crowds of local farmhands.
Mr Knott built an imitation ghost town to keep them entertained, and eventually hired loc-
al carnival rides and charged admission.
Today Knott's keeps the Old West theme alive and thriving with shows and demonstra-
tions at Ghost Town , but it's the thrill rides that draw the big crowds. The Sierra
Sidewinder roller coaster rips through banks and turns while rotating on its axis. The sus-
pended, inverted Silver Bullet screams through a corkscrew, a double spiral and an outside
loop. Xcelerator is a 1950s-themed roller coaster that blasts you from 0mph to 82mph in
under 2½ seconds with a hair-raising twist at the top. Perilous Plunge whooshes at 75mph
down a 75-degree angled water chute that's almost as tall as Niagara Falls.
Minimum height restrictions apply for many rides and attractions. For the little(st) ones,
Camp Snoopy is a kiddy wonderland populated by the Peanuts characters.
Opening hours vary seasonally, and online savings can be substantial (eg $10 off adult
admission for buying print-at-home tickets).
Next door to Knott's Berry Farm is the affiliated water park Soak City Orange
County ( GOOGLE MAP ;
714-220-5200; www.soakcityoc.com ; 8039 Beach Blvd, Buena Park;
adult/child 3-11yr $36/26;
10am-5pm, 6pm or 7pm mid-May-mid-Sep) , boasting a
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