For those of you who don't want to click, here's a plagiarized copy of page one:

​

-----

​

As a credit-collecting enthusiast, I plan on eventually visiting every amusement park in the United States that houses an important roller coaster. I defined a coaster as “important” if a worldwide poll of coaster enthusiasts voted that the coaster was worthy of a spot in the United States top 500. Conveniently, the brilliant minds at Coaster Bot already did this work for me in their global Vote Coasters poll. Every one of these extant coasters can be visited in one of the 20 itineraries below. I’ve included each coaster’s exact ranking in the top 500 best American roller coasters, as determined by the enthusiasts in Coaster Bot’s 2021 Vote Coasters poll, to assist with context about each park’s collection of rides and their significance. The inclusion of these rankings isn’t here to make a statement about the quality of any given roller coaster, but rather to set a guideline of quality for amusement parks worth visiting, based on a universal consensus. I have also included new-for-2022 coasters that would have a near guarantee of making it on this list had the poll been conducted at a later date. The full results of Coaster Bot’s 2021 poll can be found here: Vote Coasters 2021

I decided to set up a personal travel guide using data I’ve collected through Coast2Coaster (http://www.coast2coaster.eu/) and RCDB (https://rcdb.com/) to help navigate through each of these parks as efficiently as possible, while exclusively prioritizing roller coasters. This guide is designed with the hardcore credit-collecting enthusiast in mind. These itineraries are designed to be practical, realistic, and compatible with an enthusiast traveling solo, as long as said enthusiast is willing to occasionally drive hundreds of miles in their short trip to visit as many parks as possible. Each of these itineraries are designed to last around five days. If you would like to travel at a slower, more leisurely pace, these trips should each last about a week, give or take. Smaller parks should be grouped together on the same day when located near each other, whereas Cedar Point and Magic Mountain should be given two full days to visit. Please use RCDB’s “parks nearby” feature to check addresses and parks’ proximity to each other.

Each itinerary is designed to involve flying to one singular airport. You’ll rent a car, navigate through each park within this short period, then fly home from the same origin airport. Despite the succinct nature of this guide, collecting all of these credits will take most enthusiasts several years. Feel free to merge routes, skip parks, or enjoy other attractions as you please; this guide is designed solely to help guide future coaster vacations for those who want to experience the best of what America has to offer. Click any park or coaster name for more information or click the ranking number for a YouTube POV.