Negative-G - ZDT's Amusement Park and The Switchback Coaster 2016

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The saying goes that good things come in small packages and ZDT's Amusement Park in Seguin Texas certainly fits that idiom to a T.

Seguin is the county seat of Guadalupe County a little under an hours drive east of San Antonio. The town has about 26,000 people. Driving into town it really didn't seem like the sort of a place for an amusement park. Seguin is not a big town, in fact it reminds me of one of the larger towns here in rural Western Illinois where I live and there is no way I would have imagined anyone would build a park in one of them. But to throw another idiom out here "fortune favors the bold" and ZDT's owners Danny and Sarah Donhauser are certainly bold building not just an amusement park somewhere no one else would have thought but they have made it work.

ZDT's is not a large park by any standard but what they have squeezed into basically a city block is astounding.

The block used to be a food processing facility. There are warehouses, offices, processing facilities, a railroad link and these grain elevators. All of them have been repurposed into something fun while keeping the site's history alive. Again who would have looked at a old industrial site and say "let's turn this into an amusement park"? Walking around and through ZDT's Amusement Park Bond and I were really blown away at the audacity and ingenuity of the transformation of the site.

ZDT's has a go kart track, spinning ride, flight simulator, indoor rock wall, the silo climb, a trampoline, indoor playground, two water slides, a water coaster, two arcades and...