The people's park: Kings Dominion always takes you back
A familiar, childlike anticipation hits me when I glimpse the Kings Dominion sign perched high above I-95, beckoning cars to exit for small-town Doswell, 20 minutes north of Richmond.
I've been visiting this amusement park since I was a kid in the mid-'70s, back when it wasn't much more than the Lion Country Safari and a few other attractions. I still recall stumbling across the crooked floor of Yogi Bear's cave, my first ride on a serious roller coaster, hanging on for dear life as my skinny teenage frame nearly flew out of the wooden Grizzly. Or the time Huckleberry Hound almost mauled me.
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