Cedar+Park

__//What is Cedar Point?​//__
Cedar Point is a peninsula in northern Ohio located along Lake Erie, as well as an amusement park at the same location. It is located near Sandusky (Ohio History Central).Cedar Point is the second oldest amusement park and it has the most roller coasters in the world, they have 17 roller coasters. Cedar Point has beautiful gardens, lake views, a museum, and ice-skating show, shops and food outlets, and water rides. The 364-arce Cedar Point woes its existence to the point’s white sand beach, still one of Lake Erie’s few sandy beaches (Mitchell).

//__When does it open, how much does it cost, and where can we stay?__//
Cedar Point is open between early May and Labor Day. Admission for adults is $43.99 and $19.99 for people under 48” tall and seniors over 62. Children 2 and under get in free. After Labor Day, the park is open Friday evenings, Saturdays, and Sundays through the end of October (Mitchell). Cedar Point operates two hotels plus and RV park on the point as well as two hotels on the mainland, Castaway Bay Indoor Water park and Breakers Express (Mitchell).

//__What are some of the roller coaster at Cedar Point?__//
Some of the roller coasters at Cedar Point are the Blue streak, Corkscrew, Magnum, Magnum XL, Top Thrill Dragster, and the Maverick. The park features other thrilling rides, such as the “Demon Drop,” and they also have children’s rides such as a giant Ferris wheel, a classic merry-go-round, a paddlewheel excursion, and the Cedar Point icon “Space Spiral,” a 330-foot tall rotating observation deck that offers spectacular views of the park and Lake Erie beyond (Mitchell). They also have the Gemini, which set records as the tallest, fastest, and steepest roller coaster in the world at the time. Cedar Point has a wooden coaster named Mean Streak, which was the tallest and fastest of its kind in the world. They also have the Raptor, the world’s tallest and fastest inverted roller coaster, and the Mantis, the tallest and fastest stand-up roller coaster, in 1996 (Ohio History Central). Cedar Point also has the Power Tower, Millennium Force, and maXair (The History of Fun).

__//What is the History of Cedar Point?//__
Before Cedar Point had its amusement park it use to serve as a lighthouse and a port for fisherman. In 1867, the peninsula became linked to a small railroad. The amusement park say 1870 was its first season, when the first bathhouse and other forms of entertainment were built. Part of Cedar Point became a bird sanctuary in 1954, when Dr. Dean Sheldon bought some land next to the road to Cedar Point. This site eventually became Sheldon’s Marsh State Nature Preserve. In the past few decades Cedar Point has made many world records. Cedar Point has won many awards, including “Best Amusement Park” by Amusement Today’s Golden Ticket Award on several occasions (Ohio History Central). Before 1870 the Cedar Point Peninsula was mainly used for fishing and hunting, but that all changed with an editorial in the local newspaper in 1867 calling on “some enterprising person” to use the beautiful beach on the lake side of Cedar Point. In the summer of 1870, a local businessperson named Louis Zistel opened a small beer garden, bathhouse, and dance floor on the peninsula. Louis Zistel would bring his guests over to Cedar Point on his steamboat, Young Reindeer, for only 25 Cents (Cedar Fair Entertainment Company). The history of rides a Cedar Point started in 1892 with the peninsula’s first roller coaster, the Switchback Railway, which was 25-feet-tall and went 10-mph. The amusement park announced in 1911 that a roadway would be built to the resort, connecting it with the main arteries coming into the Sandusky area. In 1929 Cedar Point’s Cyclone roller coaster opened along the beach, it is billed as “scientifically built for speed, thrills and safety.” The oldest operating roller coaster at Cedar Point today, which is the Blue Streak, opened in 1964. In 1969 the Cedar Creek Mine Ride, which is one of the first roller coasters to utilize steel tubular track opened. In 1988 Soak City water park opened. Snake River Falls, the tallest, fastest and steepest water flume ride in the world opened in 1993. In 1994 Cedar point opens Raptor, as the tallest and fastest inverted roller coaster in the world. Cedar Point opens Power Tower, which is a 300-foot-tall thriller that either launches you up 240 feet or blasts them down 240 feet at speeds of up to 50 mph. In 2000 Cedar Point breaks records when it opens the tallest (310 feet) and fastest (93 mph) “giga coaster” on the planet, Millennium Force. Also in 2000 the 350-room Breakers Express is added on Causeway Drive. In 2002 The park debuts its 15th roller coaster, Wicked Twister. Cedar Point opens its 68th ride - maXair in 2005. In 2006 they open the ride Skyhawk as the parks newest thrill ride. In 2007 the historic amusement park/resort announced plans for a new roller coaster named Maverick. Maverick is near the Frontier town treats riders to multiple terrain-hugging elements that have never been experienced on a Cedar Point roller coaster (Cedar Fair Entertainment Company).

__//Sources//__
“Cedar Point -- Profiles of Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky Ohio.” Cleveland Ohio -Akron Ohio - Northeast Ohio - Cleveland. Ed. Ed. Sandy Mitchell. 21 May 2009. Web. 16 Apr. 2010. http://cleveland.about.com/od/justoutsideoftown/p/cedarpoint.htm. “Cedar Point.” Ohio History Central. Ohio Historical Society, 2010. Web. 26 Apr. 2010 . “The History of Fun: Cedar Point Celebrates Its Past.” Cedar Point. Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, 2010. Web. 27 Apr. 2010 http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/new/history/index.cfm.age here.