Last weekend we took a mini vacation one of our favorite places - the White Mountain National Forest region of New Hampshire. We check out a few attractions that we hadn't visited before - Santa's Village in Jefferson and The Hartmann Train Museum in North Conway.
Santa's village was surprisingly good. Its close to being on par with the excellent Story Land in Jackson which is an all time favorite theme park in my family but Santa's Village comes very close. Like Story Land, Santa's Village is very clean and very well landscaped. In fact on a very hot day Santa's Village is even better than Storyland because it is heavily treed so there is lots of shade. The only bad things about Santa's Village is the theme with which may not appeal to older kids or non-Christians since its all about Santa and Christmas. For the adults who get annoyed by Christmas songs in Decemeber it is very strange hearing them on a hot summer day in August. But there are a full day's worth of rides (we didn't check out any of the shows which if you go by Story Land standards - can be rather lame in these small time amusement parks) but their were a nice variety of rides - nothing too scary for little kids except for the Humbug ride which my seven year old refused to go on and from all reports was indeed rather scary. Stand out rides were the Santa's Sleigh mono rail that gives a birds eye view of the park, the excellent antique cars and the adults favorite the bumper cars. There is enough variety here and the lines are shorter then at Story Land at least on the Sunday we went. If you like Story Land give Santa's Village a try, just don't wait too long or the kids might not be into the Santa theme.
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