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Belmont Park is a major tourist attraction in San Diego, California. Complete with shopping centers, restaurants and recreational complexes, Belmont Park offers an array of services to meet your each and every wish and make for a memorable family outing. Once an abandoned amusement park located between the bay and Mission Beach boardwalk, today Belmont Park boasts of innumerable visitors not only from America but also throughout the world. One of the most popular rides at the Belmont Park is the Giant Dipper. Basically a wooden roller coaster, the Giant Dipper covers more than 2600 feet of track and goes uphill and downhill over 13 hills for that exhilarating riding experience. However, as per the rules, people who are not at least 4’2” tall cannot take a ride on this wooden wonder. Built in the year 1925, this is one of the few old-fashioned roller coasters in the US. It is also worth mentioning here that due to this roller coaster, Belmont Park was listed in the national Register of Historic Places.
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Apart from the Giant Dipper, some other attractions at Belmont Park include the Plunge, Pirate’s Cove and the Wave House. The Plunge is simply a water wonder with an indoor swimming pool. Having the dimensions of 60 feet by 125 feet, it was the largest pool of its kind in the whole world. On the other hand, the Pirate’s Cove is a maze of tunnels, slides, an obstacle course and many other weird things.And lastly, one of the major attractions at the Belmont Park is the Wave House, where the speed of the wave is artificially maintained at an optimum level, thereby facilitating a near perfect surfing experience to the surfers.
The prices of these rides vary from a princely $ 2 to $ 20 and Belmont Park remains open on all weekdays from 11 in the morning till late in the night.
So what are you waiting for? Take your pick from the above mentioned rides available at Belmont Park and make your holidays even more colorful and enjoyable.
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