I went to Scarowinds last night for the first time ever. I went with a large group of college friends who unfortunately decided to go on a Saturday despite my warnings of an ungodly large crowd from hell. So we get there two hours later than opening because of complications the females on the trip caused. There was a line to get off the exit on the side of the interstate. It took about 20 minutes to park after we pulled in past the sign. Scarowinds was pretty cool I was curious to what the park was going to be like on the inside because I've never been to a halloween event at an amusement park. Unfortunately this was the most crowded I've experienced in an amusement park. My only goal by the end of the night was to ride Intimidator and get my credit for it. It was the first thing we did and the line ended probably about 100 feet from the entrance bridge but we braved the wait which wasn't too long, because of the amazing people-eater Intimidator was. We got assigned to the fifth row and I got an outside seat. I would give Intimidator a favorable review but it didn't give me as much airtime as Apollo's Chariot has but I only rode it once in the middle of the train. After Intimidator we went to Defex which was interesting and I learned amusement park haunted mazes were different from what I expected with loud rock music and strobe lights everywhere which sort of killed any suspense I had. I like the pile of toys monster cause I didn't expect him to come up at all. The little doll scharactors were very amusing to have conversations with. After Defex we went to Camp Killauee which was kind of lame. There was no chainsaw guy that I expected cause I heard him from the outside when I was walking past earlier. After that unfortunately my friends wanted to wait for Afterburn which I've ridden many many times and was much more interested in the mazes but we waited forever for it and rode in the very back which I haven't done before so it was more fun. After that we went to the Asylum which was a lot like defex with loud rock music and strobe lights. I believe I preferred it to Defex in the end. Walking out of Asylum I saw we had ten minutes till close so I got the whole group to go to cornstalkers as fast as I could. On the way in front of Nighthawk I probably had my biggest scare of the night I wasn't paying attention and a chainsaw dude just revved his chainsaw right in front of me it was huge oh sh*t moment. Some random dude near us took off sprinting when he saw him. Cornstalkers was kind of lame too the scharactors wanted to go home and some expressed it but I guess that's expected five minutes till closing. There was a random chainsaw dude standing outside the exit and me and my friends convinced him to go after the group behind us that we knew so he did and they ran out screaming. It was a fun night despite the ungodly crowd from hell. We did four haunts, two coasters, and one scare zone which was the playground. I plan to check out Kings Dominions halloween haunt next year.
By the way I'm Chase I live in Radford, VA at Radford University
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