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Six Gun City & Fort Splash
The northern frontier of New Hampshire has been transformed into the western frontier of the United States at Six Gun City & Fort Splash (1492 Rte. 2, Jefferson, 603/586-4592, www.sixguncity.com, 9:30 a.m.–6 p.m. daily July–Aug.; 10 a.m.–5 p.m. daily late May–June and late Aug.–early Sept., $2 adults and children 4 and up, $17 seniors, free children under 4), a family amusement park and waterpark centered around a Western-movie-set main street. Not sure the laser-tag arena is authentic to the period, but it’s all great fun anyway.
Santa’s Village
Also competing to reel in the family demographic is Santa’s Village (528 Presidential Hwy./Rte. 2, Jefferson, 603/586-4445, www.santasvillage.com, 9:30 a.m.–6 p.m. daily late June–late Aug.; limited hours weekends late May–late June and late Aug.–Dec., $24 adults and children 4 and up, $22 seniors, free children under 4), a North Pole theme park complete with Yule Log flume ride, Rudolph Rollercoaster, and live reindeer petting zoo. Parents might have trouble explaining why Santa summers in New Hampshire, but the kids will be so psyched to see him outside the mall they won’t care.
© Michael Blanding and Alexandra Hall from Moon New England, 2nd Edition
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