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/ July 17, 2026
Cedar Point shut its gates at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2026 — roughly three hours ahead of its typical peak-summer closing time — after smoke from hundreds of active Canadian wildfires pushed regional air quality to hazardous levels. The Sandusky, Ohio park, known
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/ June 30, 2026
If you’ve been searching for “Soak City” at Cedar Point and coming up confused, here’s the short version: it’s still there, it’s just wearing a new name. The water park that opened on Lake Erie’s shoreline in 1988 is now Cedar Point Shores, and it’s
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/ June 20, 2026
Cedar Point Shores is the water park at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio — an 18-acre complex of speed slides, a giant wave pool, two lazy rivers, and family splash zones perched directly on the shore of Lake Erie. Operated by Six Flags, it consistently
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/ June 15, 2026
When Magnum XL-200 launched at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio on May 6, 1989, it didn’t just break records — it invented a new category. Standing 205 feet tall and reaching 72 mph, it became the world’s tallest, fastest, and steepest complete-circuit roller coaster at
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/ June 15, 2026
GateKeeper is a steel wing coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, designed and built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M). It opened on May 11, 2013, delivering Cedar Point’s most successful opening weekend in the park’s history. Riders sit in pairs on either
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/ June 15, 2026
Maverick opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio on May 26, 2007, replacing the beloved water ride White Water Landing in the park’s Frontier Town section. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin and engineered by Werner Stengel — for whom it was his 500th coaster design
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/ May 17, 2026
Theme park news May 2026 rolls into the final stretch before Disney’s Muppets Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster opens. This week’s roundup covers the final preview wave for the reimagined attraction, Six Flags Tormenta Rampaging Run’s POV drop and instant viral reaction, SeaWorld’s Barracuda Strike opening,
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/ May 5, 2026
A successful Cedar Point visit rewards riders who plan ahead, arrive early, and understand how the Sandusky, Ohio peninsula park actually flows. With 18 roller coasters spanning the entire spectrum from family woodies to a 420-foot record-setter, Cedar Point packs more vertical thrills per acre
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/ April 2, 2026
Roller coasters aren’t one-size-fits-all — from the classic rumble of wooden coasters to the face-down terror of flying coasters, each type delivers a fundamentally different experience. At the extreme end sits the rarest category of all: the strata coaster, a full-circuit ride so tall that
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/ October 17, 2025
I stumbled upon a NoLimits 2 fan recreation on YouTube that reimagines Cedar Point’s Raptor — a legendary green-and-teal Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) inverted coaster running since 1994 — as a floorless roller coaster instead. It’s a great excuse to dig into what a floorless
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/ May 3, 2024
Millennium Force: The Coaster That Changed Everything When Millennium Force opened at Cedar Point in May 2000, it shattered records and redefined what a roller coaster could be. Standing 310 feet tall and reaching speeds of 93 mph, it became the world’s first giga coaster,
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/ August 10, 2023
GateKeeper at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio is a steel wing coaster built by Bolliger & Mabillard that opened on May 11, 2013. Positioned directly at the park’s historic front entrance, it greets every arriving guest with a signature sight: a 170-foot lift hill followed
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/ August 10, 2023
Raptor at Cedar Point does not ease you in. The lift hill climbs 137 feet, your feet hang free beneath the track, and the moment the train crests that hill the ground vanishes. What follows is roughly two minutes of sustained aerial intensity: a 100-foot
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/ August 10, 2023
Why First Drops Define a Coaster The first drop is the signature moment of any roller coaster. It is the element that appears on every promotional poster, the moment that fills every POV video thumbnail, and the sensation that riders remember most vividly. A great
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/ August 5, 2023
A roller coaster drop gets all the glory, but the turns are where a ride truly earns its reputation. The right banked curve — arching high, tilting hard, holding speed — can deliver a sustained rush that no vertical plunge ever matches. Some of the
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/ August 3, 2023
Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio has always been a proving ground for roller-coaster extremes, but nothing prepared the coaster world for what arrived in May 2003. Top Thrill Dragster did not ease you in — it sat motionless for a heartbeat, then a wall of
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/ August 1, 2023
Top Thrill 2 is Cedar Point’s reimagined version of the legendary Top Thrill Dragster — a 420-foot strata coaster rebuilt by Zamperla with a triple-launch system that builds speed in three separate stages, topping out at 120 mph before sending riders through a twisting crest
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/ July 31, 2023
The train stops. You are tilted forward, hanging face-down over 214 feet of open air, staring at the ground far below. It holds that way — one second, two, three, four — long enough that your brain stops waiting for the drop and starts to
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/ July 31, 2023
The lift hill crests at 223 feet, the train rolls to the brink, and then — nothing. For roughly four seconds you’re face-down above Lake Erie, dangling over the midway, watching the ground below do absolutely nothing to reassure you. That pause is the whole
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/ July 26, 2023
Rougarou is Cedar Point’s floorless roller coaster — a 145-foot Bolliger & Mabillard machine that sends riders through four inversions at 60 mph with nothing beneath their feet. Located in Sandusky, Ohio, it is one of the park’s most re-rideable coasters: smooth, intense, and consistently
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