lake compounce: Me and my family are going to Lake Compounce, Conneticut on July 4 which means we will be able to see the fireworks. Is Lake Compounce fun? Does it have good rides? Is the down time ride scary or is it fun? If you have already gone to Lake Compounce can you please tell me about your experience.|||Honestly Lake Compounce is my FAVORITE theme park. I live a couple streets away so its good for me. Plus I got a season pass so I could go ANY time I want, WHICH IS LIKE, EVERY WEEKEND. Once you pay you go in and you get access to ANY rides you would like besides the sky coaster, which is like a bungee jumping ride. I will tell you about some of the rides. Thunder and lightning is like a giant swinging pendulum that goes back and forth. I have to admit it is a good ride. If you go on a certain side you go backwards over a fence which can give you a spook!. Boulderdash is absolutely my FAVORITE ride. Its a wooden coaster built along the side of a mountain. It is high speed and very fun. It goes through the woods and dont forget to smile for the camera at the end! The Wildcat is a pretty old coaster and you could see it right when you go through the gate. It is still fun but a little bumpy. Be careful you dont hurt your neck or back because it tends to do that at times. Zoomerang is a nice purple and blue coaster which has a few loops. It pushes you up and then forward with speed and once that finishes you do the whole coaster again backwards. I love it! The wave swinger is just your natural swings they have at all amusment parks. The trolley can take you from certain ends of the park and back so you dont have to walk. The sky ride, another of my favorites, is like a sky lift that goes up the mountain. It has a little bar going across it for safety and has a great view at the top but isnt recommened if you dont like heights. The sawmill plunge is kind of a water ride that takes you up in a log and down with a splash!! The roter, yet another one of my favorites, you are in a circular dome with the top part opened. You are against the wall and it SPINS. You end up sticking to the wall because the force, and then the floor drops!! It has its normal horse carousel which is self explainable. The Giant Wheel is self explainable to it is like the teacups in the circle and just spins. The Ghost Hunt isnt really scary but a good way to be competitive shooting monsters and racking up points!! The Lake Railroad takes you on a train ride around the whole lake. Twister spins two different ways for extra speed, and you control one of it! Musik Express is like a mini coaster that goes in a circle where you listen to popular rock music. Enterprise, you sit in little cages and it spins and starts to go up, until its a big spinning circle going upsidedown and everything! I really like that ride! Downtime is a really good ride. You travel kind of slowly up and at the top you stop which is really suspensful, and gets you really anxty, then drops!!! The pirate ship is your basic amusment parks pirate ship ride. American Flyers you sit in the air in scooters and spin. Bumper cars are your average amusment parks bumper cars. Thunder rapids you sit in a raft with about 6-8 people and travel along a twisting river with SPLASHING rapids! Lake Compounce has great places to eat such as the potato patch where you could get items such as fries or a baked potato, fried bats where they make fried dough and fried oreos which are actually REALLY good, the croc pot which is kind of like a cafe/ store where you could pick out already made salads, wraps, energy drinks, etc. or order something. there is a pizza place and ALOT more! Plus free soda wherever you go in the park!! Shows and more rides plus a waterpark! I love that place!! If you need any other assistance or info just email me I know everything you need to know about Lake Compounce.|||sent you an e-mail about it lol :) Report Abuse |||Lake Compounce is a pretty fun, small amusement park. It has three roller coasters--a classic wooden one (Wildcat), a relatively new wooden one (Boulder Dash, which is VERY good, and was voted one of the top wooden coasters in the U.S.), and a steel Vekoma boomerang (Zoomerang). The other two main thrill rides are Down Time, the drop tower, and Thunder 'N Lightning, an S&S "Screamin' Swing." It also has two water rides--a log flume and a VERY fun river rapids ride, and a decent-sized water park with waterslides, a wavepool, and a lazy river. There's also Ghost Hunt, which is a dark ride in which you ride through a very kiddie-style haunted house and shoot at ghosts for points. It's a very fun, competitive experience! Down Time can be really scary, but it's also pretty fun. I personally don't like floorless drop rides at all, so I found it really scary, but from an objective perspective it's a really great ride, and everyone I've talked to who has been on it loved it. My advice--ride Boulder Dash as much as possible, spend a lot of time at the water park and/or on Thunder Rapids (the river rapids ride), and definitely ride Ghost Hunt at least once, even though the line is quite long--it is very much worth it. I have heard that watching the fireworks from the ferris wheel is the best way to see them, but I absolutely HATE ferris wheels so I have no idea :) Anyway, have fun! If you've got any more questions, feel free to message me.