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/ October 19, 2026
Shaw Stadium is a 4,000-seat football venue in East Cleveland, Ohio, serving as the home field for the Shaw High School Cardinals. The original stadium opened in 1923 and stood for nearly a century before being condemned and demolished in March 2021, then rebuilt on…
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/ October 19, 2026
Universal Stadium opened in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1928, built with private funding after local bond measures to pay for a stadium repeatedly failed. Its wooden stands and concrete box seats were raised specifically to give the city’s semi-pro football ambitions a proper home, and within…
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/ October 18, 2026
InfoCision Stadium–Summa Field is the on-campus football stadium at the University of Akron, built to give the Akron Zips a true home-field advantage after decades of playing miles away from campus. The venue opened on September 12, 2009, with a sold-out crowd watching Akron defeat…
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/ October 8, 2026
Ohio’s coaster scene is really a two-park story: Cedar Point on Lake Erie and Kings Island outside Cincinnati carry almost all of the state’s serious thrill rides, and between them they cover nearly every coaster category that exists. The top pick is Steel Vengeance at…
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/ September 28, 2026
All 14 Geauga Lake roller coasters on one timeline, from the 1925 Big Dipper to the 2007 closing, and where Batman: Knight Flight, Serial Thriller, The Mind Eraser and the rest ended up.
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/ September 28, 2026
All 23 roller coasters in Kings Island history on one timeline, from opening-day The Racer to Orion, including removed rides like Son of Beast, Vortex, King Cobra and the original Bat.
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/ September 28, 2026
All 38 roller coasters in Cedar Point history on one timeline, from the 1892 Switchback Railway to Siren's Curse, including removed and rebuilt rides like Mean Streak, Mantis and Top Thrill Dragster.
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/ September 28, 2026
RiversEdge Amphitheater sits inside Marcum Park on the banks of the Great Miami River in downtown Hamilton, Ohio. Since opening in 2013, the open-air, grass-bowl venue has become a cornerstone of the city’s downtown revitalization, drawing local, regional, and national touring acts to its riverfront…
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/ September 24, 2026
Blossom Music Center is an outdoor amphitheater in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, roughly 30 miles south of downtown Cleveland. It opened in 1968 and is the summer home of The Cleveland Orchestra. Its covered pavilion and sweeping lawn hold about 23,000 people in total, which makes…
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/ September 21, 2026
Little Dipper is a steel kiddie roller coaster at Memphis Kiddie Park in Brooklyn, Ohio, a small family amusement park just outside Cleveland. Built by the Allan Herschell Company, the ride opened with the park on May 28, 1952, making it one of the oldest…
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/ September 18, 2026
Geauga Lake was an amusement park in Aurora, Ohio, that traced its roots to 1887, when a lakeside picnic ground beside the town’s namesake lake evolved into one of the Midwest’s oldest amusement destinations. Over more than a century it grew from a modest trolley-stop…
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/ September 16, 2026
The Agora Theatre and Ballroom is a concert venue on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, carrying a name and legacy that trace back to 1966, when promoter Hank LoConti opened the first Agora club near Case Western Reserve University. That original club became a launching…
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/ September 12, 2026
X-Flight was a Vekoma Flying Dutchman roller coaster that opened at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure (Geauga Lake) in Aurora, Ohio, on May 26, 2001. Billed as the Midwest’s first and only flying roller coaster, it stood out with neon green track and dark blue…
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/ September 12, 2026
The Bat is a steel suspended roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Arrow Dynamics and opened on April 9, 1993. It first ran as Top Gun, themed around the Paramount film of the same name, complete with jet-fighter trains and movie-inspired…
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/ September 10, 2026
The Villain was a wooden roller coaster at Geauga Lake & Wildwater Kingdom in Aurora, Ohio, opening on May 5, 2000 as part of a four-coaster expansion Six Flags rolled out at the park between 1999 and 2000. Designed by Custom Coasters International and built…
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/ September 10, 2026
Big Dipper was a classic wooden roller coaster that towered over Geauga Lake amusement park in Bainbridge Township, Ohio, for more than nine decades. It opened in 1925 under the name Sky Rocket, one of many wooden out-and-back coasters built during the golden age of…
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/ September 8, 2026
Raging Wolf Bobs was a classic wooden roller coaster that thundered through Geauga Lake amusement park in Aurora, Ohio, for nearly two decades. Built to mark the park’s centennial celebration, it was the park’s first new coaster in ten years when it opened on May…
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/ September 8, 2026
Double Loop was a steel roller coaster at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio, that made history in 1977 as the first coaster in the world to feature two consecutive vertical loops. Built by Arrow Dynamics at a cost of $1.35 million, the ride quickly became…
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/ September 8, 2026
Invertigo is a Vekoma inverted shuttle coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, best known for seating riders in face-to-face rows as the train is launched backward and forward through a vertical loop and a cobra roll. It’s one of only four Invertigo-model coasters Vekoma…
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/ September 8, 2026
Corkscrew opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, on May 15, 1976, and made history as the first roller coaster in the world to feature three inversions. Built by Arrow Development and designed by legendary engineer Ron Toomer, the steel coaster arrived during the U.S.
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