Bird Eye Tourist and Theme Park Maps
May 17, 2018 4:38 PM   Subscribe

I'm looking for samples of illustrated theme park or tourist birds eye maps -- not the simple to scale kind, but the more cartoony, exaggerated elements type. Samples inside..

A couple to show sort of what I'm after:
Castle Park
Southern Railway Adventure Map (London)
Looking for anything fun, different, even terrible, but whatever strikes AskMeFi as interesting!
posted by Unsomnambulist to Travel & Transportation (15 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
The closest theme park to me as a kid. Great Escape
posted by metasarah at 4:56 PM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]




Legoland waterpark (California)
posted by AFABulous at 6:01 PM on May 17, 2018


You reminded me of this Beatles-themed map of Liverpool. We had a copy on the wall when I was a kid. Not a theme park but definitely in that visual style.
posted by tchemgrrl at 6:20 PM on May 17, 2018


My hometown of St. Augustine FL has a few like this that I've seen over the years. Here's one I was able to find from some quick Googling, but I'm sure I've seen others.
posted by saladin at 6:26 PM on May 17, 2018


The wonderful Knoebels in Pennsylvania
posted by molasses at 6:40 PM on May 17, 2018


Ooh! I've got this!

Tokyo Disneyland & Tokyo Disneysea
Knotts Berry Farm (pdf), California
Paramount King's Dominion (pdf), Virginia
Worlds of Fun, Kansas City
posted by lesser weasel at 7:25 PM on May 17, 2018


I've also found this, which may be up your alley.
posted by lesser weasel at 7:31 PM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]


Wow, the map for Cedar Point has not changed in format since I was a kid (I assume there are new rides).
posted by alygator at 9:31 PM on May 17, 2018


Pretty much every hokey local theme park near where I grew up has one of these, you used to be able to pick up advertising leaflets with maps in them at the grocery store.

Woodlands Adventure Park
Crealy Adventure Park
posted by terretu at 2:47 AM on May 18, 2018


Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels and De Efteling theme park in the Netherlands.
posted by neushoorn at 3:52 AM on May 18, 2018


There's a hiking map of the Jungfrau region in Switzerland that kind of does this. It's not really cartoony, but it is a birds-eye view, and it's pretty well-known among visitors to the area.
posted by kevinbelt at 6:46 AM on May 18, 2018


Here is one (or two) for Mystic (CT). The smaller one is interesting because it omits the Mystic Seaport Museum which is the biggest attraction in that corner of the state (casinos excepted). If you poke around the site, there are maps for other parts of Connecticut.

These maps are as interesting for what they exclude as what they include.
posted by SemiSalt at 4:41 PM on May 18, 2018


Here is one for the Rye (NY) Playland amusement park.
posted by SemiSalt at 4:43 PM on May 18, 2018


You will probably love Unique Media's hand-illustrated bird's-eye-view maps. I had the Florida, NYC, USA, and world versions as a kid and they really helped me visualize geography better than standard maps.

quick edit: Here's a hi-res scan of their USA map for context.
posted by Rhaomi at 6:18 PM on May 31, 2018


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