Fodor's Expert Review Silverwood Theme Park

Drive about 20 minutes north of Coeur d’Alene on Highway 95 and you'll reach the Northwest’s largest theme park, with dozens of thrill rides, a wooden roller coaster that ducks underground, and the adjoining Boulder Beach Water Park. A steam locomotive choo-choo’s through Main Street daily, past life-size Garfield and Odie mascots and through the surrounding woods, which in October become a scene for a Halloween “Scarywood.” There are rides for younger kids, too, and various entertainments. In the summer, the water park is swarming with families and sunbathing college kids. For the brave, there is the Aftershock hanging coaster—a 65-mph drop that will peel your eyelids back.