Marc Ricketts
Marc Ricketts is a writer/photographer who has not yet outgrown roller coasters, and provides news and information about San Francisco Bay Area destinations. Mark's columns can frequently be found on MiceChat in our Weekend Updates.
Winter after the holidays is typically a slow time for theme parks, even more so for the regional parks with greatly reduced hours if...
As I write these words it is a week before a trip to experience the holiday offerings at Disneyland, something I'm sure many of...
Like most, after overindulging on a Thursday feast, I'm ready for some sort of frozen activity. Fortunately, the day after Thanksgiving was the opening...
The arrival of November means the arrival of the second of Gilroy Gardens' after dark events, Harvest@Night. Despite feeling that the Halloween version fell...
With little warning Gilroy Gardens announced a new Halloween@Night event to take place weekends through October. Clearly inspired by the success of last year's...
Last year the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA premiered a new candlelight tour for Halloween (link), and MiceChat returned to take a...
Fright Fest 2017 made its debut at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom on September 23, and with the discounted Haunted House Pass purchased during the...
Theme parks have been raising a ruckus about anniversaries since the Disneyland Tencennial in 1965; and speaking of ten year milestones, the Halloween Haunt...
Tis the season when regional parks let us know what will be opening the following year; here's what to expect in the Golden State....
Theme park folk tend to fall into one of two camps, those that like big honkin' roller coasters and those that like the heavily...
Summer at the beach is like winter on the slopes, a no brainer. In Santa Cruz of course, the beach is fronted by Monterey...
Two weeks before Memorial Day weekend I was in Santa Cruz, and this was the state of their entrance rebuild.
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Seemed that they...
It seems that big things are happening in theme parks all over the country this weekend, and amidst these feasts of Volcano Bays, Guardians...
It's the end of one phase and the beginning of another for California's Great America with the conversion of stand up coaster Vortex into...
This column regularly features new rides and events at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and California's Great America; meanwhile the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk keeps...
Last Fall Six Flags Discovery Kingdom made its first foray into the world of roller coaster virtual reality by adding Rage of the Gargoyles...
Like many readers here at MiceChat, we take a lot of park centric vacations. In 2016 that was certainly true, but our objectives weren’t...
Like many readers here at MiceChat, we take a lot of park centric vacations. In 2016 that was certainly true, but our objectives weren’t...
Like many readers here at MiceChat, we take a lot of park centric vacations. In 2016 that was certainly true, but our objectives weren’t...
Like many readers here at MiceChat, we take a lot of park centric vacations. In 2016 that was certainly true, but our objectives weren't...