Lake Compounce

Pros: Water park and amusement rides, nice family atmosphere, free Pepsi
Cons: Can be crowded

Not planning on a big vacatgion this summer, we decided to purchase season's passes to Lake Compounce Amusement Park. We have already spent quite a bit of time there this summer! But I have a much longer history with America's oldest amusement park: I ...

Pros: Clean park, friendly employees, fun rides for the entire family. Charming atmosphere.
Cons: Park is a little small but is growing nicely

We drove 120 miles from northeast Massachusetts to Lake Compounce, and it was well worth the trip. After a few visits to Six Flags New England over the past two of years, we had grown tired of the overpriced parking, expensive and poor quality food, the...

Pros: Great wooden coaster, NICE environment
Cons: Might be getting too big too fast, otherwise no cons

Lake Compounce is the nearest neighbor to Six Flags New England. It is medium-sized with a large lake and a mountain beside it, and an attached waterpark. It is the oldest amusement park in the USA, but is rapidly keeping up with the competition with a ...

Pros: Clean, safe, well policed. Many rides and attractions. Inexpensive & great value.
Cons: None that I can think of.

If you live within reasonable driving distance from this park, it's definitely worth a trip for the kids for a great day of water fun and rides. Lake Compounce amusement park is located off exit 31 of I-84 in Connecticut and easily accessible by car via ...

Pros: Wonderfully clean, colorful, nicely landscaped, helpful staff, children 3 and under admitted free!
Cons: No season parking pass, could use transport from parking lot to ticket booths.

Compounce is a wonderful amusement park to visit, especially if you live close by. Daily admission is a bit steep $29.95 however there are many discounts available from various partners (stop n shop, dunkin doughnuts, etc). One nice feature is children 3...

Pros: Free,unlimited soda all day long
Cons: Small, expensive, not too many good rides...

I had a few free passes to Lake Compounce. I hadn't been there since I was a kid, so I figured, Six Flags New England isn't so great, let's see what Lake Compounce is all about. Thank goodness I got in for free....

Never again will I go to...

Pros: Clean, Good Food, Affordable, Good Variety of Rides
Cons: Small

Having 2 children, with a 4 1/2 year age difference, always causes an argument when we want to go to an amusement park. What is good for the 6 year old is boring for the 11 year old. What's good for the 11 year old is too big and unsafe for the 6 year...

Pros: Boulder Dash is great, modest admission price, relatively short lines, clean and beautiful park.
Cons: Small and crowded waterpark, lack of steel appeal.

This weekend, I took my parents to Lake Compounce Amusement Park. Aside from taking my sister and me to Disney World when we were kids, they hadn't been to an amusement park in years. They wanted to go to "Riverside," a park where they had spent...

Pros: everything
Cons: nothing

I chose to go to this theme park because it is one of the oldest and most trusted parks in America.I would go again becuase even with it's age it has great thrill rides and a blend of water and coaster activities. I usually go in the fall and the summer...

Pros: Nice atmosphere, short lines, family rides. free soda, Boulderdash.
Cons: A little expensive to get in. Not as many thrill rides as six flags.

Lake Compounce is the nations oldest amusement park. It is situated, as the name implies, on a lake. The park is beautiful, and clean. If you have a family, then this is one of the best parks in the nation (and I've been to most of them). I went with...

Pros: Great history, reasonable prices, fast lines
Cons: Long wait at water park, flying scooters temporarily closed

Lake Compounce is a wonderful park to spend a day at with friends or with your family. It's packed with fun things to do and each year it gets better. I first visited the park in the early 90's when I was younger than I am now. Even then I greatly...

Pros: Great wooden coasters, old time atmosphere, free soda
Cons: No major steel coaster

After visiting Lake Compounce for the first time on a rainy summer weekend day in 2003, it became apparent how different The Lake was compared to the park where I had purchased my season's pass that year, Six Flags New England. Although it was raining ...

Pros: Very Clean, Great Rides, FREE Soda!
Cons: Crowded Water Park

We visited Lake Compounce this week after reading so many nice things about it. I was hoping it would live up to my expectations, and it did! We met friends there and were so impressed with the cleanliness (they were scrubbing garbage pails and cleaning ...

Pros: Afforadle, fun, clean, and good sized
Cons: Parking fee

Don't get me wrong, Six Flags is lots of fun, but Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT is a very well organized park. The park is clean, the staff is extremely friendly. The park is pretty large but not too large that you get lost. The new Boulder Dash coaster...

Pros: Great setting, Boulderdash coaster
Cons: Small, Easily overwhelmed on weekends/holidays

We visited "The Lake" today Sat Aug 22,2003. Parking was $5 and admission is $30ea for adults and kids over 4 feet tall. The park was open 11am-9pm. With the water park closing at 7pm. What I had forgotten since my last visit 2yrs ago was how small ...