Patriot train banking through a turn at California's Great America

Love / Avoid without over-constraining

Preferences are powerful. Used carelessly, they can empty a trip or ask for the impossible.

Patriot — California's Great America. Photo by Jeremy Thompson, CC BY 4.0.

How prefs work

Every park with at least one operating coaster is listed. Search by name — spelling must be exact — then set Love, Neutral, or Avoid. Signed-in prefs stick across devices.

Avoid = hard no

Mark Avoid when you truly don’t want a stop. That park stays off trips for your account until you change it. Prefer a short Avoid list: only parks you’d skip even if they sat on the perfect drive-by.

Love = best effort, not teleport

Love tells the planner to prioritize a park when the trip can reach it. A New York → Orlando run still won’t include Six Flags Magic Mountain just because it’s Loved. Love the parks that fit the region you’re actually touring.

Leave most parks Neutral

Neutral is the default for a reason. It lets Atlas fill long drives with smaller stops and discover loops you wouldn’t sketch yourself. Over-Loving everything turns priorities into noise; over-Avoiding shrinks the map.

Quick checklist

Set prefs in the planner

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