6 Flags

I had been to an Amusement Park about 6 years back when I went to Malaysia's Genting Highlands! But this took me by surprise!

6 Flags Amusement Park a.k.a. Elitch's Garden was an amazing and beautiful place! Right in the middle of Downtown Denver, 6 Flags is a 70 acre amusement and water park.

Elitch Gardens was a family owned seasonal amusement park, theater, and botanic garden in the West Highland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado at 38th and Tennyson streets. For more than a century Elitch's was one of the most popular entertainment destinations in Colorado. It was nationally known for its lush gardens, the Trocadero Ballroom, the Theatre at the Gardens and the premier wooden roller coaster, Mister Twister. The park moved to downtown Denver in 1994 and later became Six Flags Elitch Gardens. The former location is being redeveloped. In August of 2006, Six Flags sold Elitch Gardens for a reported $170 million dollars.

Mister Twister

Mister Twister opened in 1964. It was a 96-foot (29m) tall wooden coaster, designed by John Allen of Philadelphia Toboggan Company, and advertisements promoted the fact that it didn't "have a foot of straight track". It was regularly rated as one of the top ten rides in the country until it stopped operating in 1994 when the park was relocated. Twister II at the new Elitch Gardens is a significantly tamer coaster modeled after the original.

One feature of Mister Twister was that, after ascending the first hill, the rider was within the line of sight of another coaster, Lakeside's crown jewel 'Cyclone'.

[Shot from Mister Twister while waiting for my Turn!]

This time 6 Flags was different. Beautiful blue skies, and decorated perfectly for Halloween time. Ghosts and Haunted places and skeletons scattered almost everywhere and of course, artists dressed up as Ghosts ran around scaring people!

I couldn't find anything until the sun went down and the place was lit up beautifully with lights all around! At one of the resting points, noticed the sun go down and the lights on the Round Up (merry-go-round) lit up, the American Flag flying high and the beautiful blue sky in the backdrop. Perfect for my Camera!

All in all a wonderful day, and with some wonderful photographs!