The Smiler
The Smiler is a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire. There are 32 more places to see within 15 km, beginning with Alton Towers Resort (500 m). Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 8 languages.
Attraction near Alton
Just outside Alton
The Smiler is 800 m north of Alton. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Choosing a month
From June to September, Alton sees highs of 17–21°C.
The Smiler
Steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
800 m north of Alton.
- Type
- Attraction
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 8 languages
- Town
- 800 m north of Alton
- Official site
- altontowers.com/theme-park/the-smiler
Locating The Smiler
The places near The Smiler are numbered on the map in the order below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · ONS built-up area 2022
The towns around The Smiler
Home to 11,403 people, Cheadle is the largest of these 8. The town it is in comes first, then the others whose pages list it, nearest first.
Alton
Denstone
Ellastone
Rocester
Compare the 8 towns
| Town | Where The Smiler is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alton | 800 m south of it | 980 | 17 |
| Denstone | 3 km southeast of it | 829 | 17 |
| Ellastone | 4.1 km east of it | 300 | 16 |
| Rocester | 4.3 km southeast of it | 1,679 | 17 |
| Kingsley Holt | 5.8 km northwest of it | 612 | 1 |
| Cheadle | 6.1 km west of it | 11,403 | 6 |
| Upper Tean | 7.2 km southwest of it | 3,244 | 4 |
| Kingsley | 7.2 km northwest of it | 695 | 1 |
Combine it with these
Choose from 32 places within 15 km, such as 5 attractions, a theme park and a castle.
Big drawTheme parkAlton Towers Resort500 m away · 2.5M visitors a year (2024)2
AttractionOblivion100 m away3
AttractionGalactica900 m away4
CastleAlton Castle900 m away5
AttractionRita400 m away6
AttractionThirteen400 m away7
AttractionWicker Man500 m away8
Abbey or priory · English HeritageCroxden Abbey3.6 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
The Smiler in questions
Where is The Smiler?
The Smiler is 800 m north of Alton, Staffordshire.
What is The Smiler?
Steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
When is the best time to visit The Smiler?
June to September are the warmest months in Alton, with afternoon highs of 17–21°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near The Smiler?
Within 15 km: Alton Towers Resort (500 m), Oblivion (100 m), Galactica (900 m) and Alton Castle (900 m).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (9)
- The Smiler: TowersStreet, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alton Towers Resort: Dunderklumpen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Oblivion: DAllardyce, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Galactica: Andyfishburne, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alton Castle: Dennis Thorley, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rita: rogerbarker2 https://www.flickr.com/photos/rogerbarker/, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thirteen: Freddo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wicker Man: WL2018, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Croxden Abbey: Linda Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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