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A personal atlas of the places that keep pulling me back. Every park is rebuilt as a little pixel world, then paired with the rides, shows, landmarks, and odd details that give it a pulse.
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Orientation atlas: colored areas and markers show relative placement. Lines are illustrated context; check the operator’s current map or app for directions.
18 parks in view
Distances are straight-line miles from St. Petersburg, Florida. The unfiltered guide starts nearest first.
Busch Gardens
Tampa, Florida
Older than Disney World and still wilder — an African garden park where a real 65-acre savanna sits inside a lineup of some of the meanest coasters in the South.
Walt Disney World
Bay Lake, Florida
Disney's biggest park by far — 580 acres where a carved tree anchors a real savanna, a forbidden mountain, and a moon with floating rocks.
Walt Disney World
Bay Lake, Florida
The Hollywood that never was and always will be — a deco boulevard that dead-ends into a haunted hotel, with a galaxy far, far away and Andy's backyard folded in behind the facades.
Walt Disney World
Bay Lake, Florida
The one every other castle park is measured against.
Walt Disney World
Bay Lake, Florida
Walt's city of tomorrow grew up into a permanent world's fair — one half rockets and test tracks, the other half a lagoon ringed by eleven countries.
SeaWorld
Orlando, Florida
A park organized like an atlas — seven seas around a lagoon, each with its own mood — that quietly became one of the best coaster lineups in Florida, with a 400-foot needle keeping watch.
Universal Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Eight islands around one lagoon — a lighthouse lights the way from a Seussian curl of streets to Hogwarts' spires, past a green launch coaster and a pair of very tall wooden gates.
Universal Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Universal's newest park is built like a wish: a celestial garden with a great astronomical gate at its heart, and four glowing portals that each open onto a different world.
Universal Orlando
Orlando, Florida
A water park built around a 200-foot volcano that pours waterfalls by day and glows lava-red by night — the Waturi followed a magical fin across the Pacific to build it, and honestly, fair.
Universal Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Ride the movies — a backlot city where a dragon guards a wizard bank, a red steam train leaves for another park entirely, and a kid on a flying bicycle has been crossing the moon since 1990.
Six Flags
Charlotte, North Carolina
One park, two Carolinas — the state line runs straight through the front gate, and Fury 325 dives across it at 95 miles an hour.
Herschend & Dolly Parton
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A Smoky Mountain love letter with a steam railroad running through it — cinnamon bread in the valley, bald eagles overhead, and a wooden coaster that launches because Dolly said why not.
Hershey
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Built in 1906 so chocolate factory workers had somewhere to picnic — now a coaster capital where the observation tower is shaped like a Kiss and the wind sometimes smells like cocoa.
Disneyland Resort
Anaheim, California
The one Walt walked.
Disneyland Resort
Anaheim, California
California, condensed and lit for golden hour — a boardwalk pier with a face on its wheel, a bear-shaped mountain with a river through it, and a neon canyon where the cars race two abreast.
Universal
Universal City, California
A working movie studio that grew a theme park on its hill — the tram has been touring the backlot since 1964, and it still gets attacked by a shark, an ape, and a flash flood on schedule.
Disneyland Paris
Marne-la-Vallée, France
The most beautiful one — a pink château on a hill with a dragon in its basement, square storybook trees, and a Jules Verne Tomorrowland where the space mountain fires from a cannon.
Disneyland Paris
Marne-la-Vallée, France
Walt Disney Studios until March 29, 2026, now rebuilt around a lake — Arendelle sits on the new fjord, the Tower of Terror still speaks French, and Crush's shells spin through the EAC.
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