Kings Island
— — the summer evening you keep going back to.
Not only on a wall.
“An Ohio summer park north of Cincinnati, opened in 1972 around a third-scale Eiffel Tower that you can still see from the parking lot. The Beast runs through the woods at the back of the property, the longest wooden coaster in the world, and at dusk you can hear it from anywhere on International Street. Families come for a day and a night and the fireworks at the end.
Kings Island, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Kings Island sits in Mason, Ohio, about twenty-four miles north of downtown Cincinnati along Interstate 71, in the rolling country between the Little Miami and Great Miami river valleys. It opened on 29 April 1972, built by the Taft Broadcasting Company to replace the older Coney Island park along the Ohio River, which had been repeatedly damaged by flooding. The park covers roughly 364 acres, with about 100 rides and attractions. International Street, anchored by a third-scale Eiffel Tower replica, runs from the front gate to the central fountain.
The Beast, opened in 1979, remains the longest wooden roller coaster in the world at 7,359 feet, running through a wooded ravine at the back of the property for over four minutes per ride. Diamondback and Orion add steel-coaster height. The Eiffel Tower replica at the park's centre is built to one third scale of the Paris original, reaching 315 feet, and offers a long sight line across the surrounding valley. Halloween Haunt runs Friday through Sunday evenings each October.
The park's main season runs from April through early November, with operating hours stretching latest in July and August when fireworks close the evening from the lawn in front of the Royal Fountain. Winterfest brings a different version of the grounds to life from late November through New Year's Eve, with the Eiffel Tower lit red and green and the Royal Fountain converted to an ice-skating ribbon. The surrounding Warren County hills carry their first fall colour by mid-October.