I was out at the park yesterday (1/26/12) and I can say that many of the things in this video no longer exist. The station for the Merry Oldies is gone, the majority of the buildings are gone, the Skyscraper is gone (although the base of it still stands, I saw it)... the entire scene is incredibly sad.
All that remains, now, is the wreck of the Raging Wolf Bobs, The SkyCoaster, a few small buildings, and the very heart of Geauga Lake itself, The Big Dipper. I may make a video with my own photos
I see this video and it reminds me a bit of my city. My city was the home of 3 different amusement parks (at different times) and to this day, not a single one remains. Oddly enough, Six Flags had a hand in the 3rd amusement park's demise. Coincidence?
I use to live in Ohio about 30 years ago and remember going here...Also remember Sea World across the lake. I told everyone in Kansas there was a Sea World in Ohio, but no one believed it.
From what it looks like on google earth it looks like they tore half of the roller coasters down. Never been to this place but it makes me so sad to see what was once a thriving Seaworld, Six Flags, and more to now be a rotting pile.
My God with the AMAZING GRACE music. 6 minutes of that and I want to pull out my ear drums with a pair of needle nose pliers. How about mixing in something else more fitting like I WENT BACK TO OHIO AND MY CITY WAS GONE. And how many times do we need to see the same shot of the same coaster??? By your mind 16 times. And the main gate? 12 times. Wow! This video could've been 3 minutes shorter. The best ride was the Skyscraper. Outdoor elevator to see the whole park and Kent State University.
No coasters went off the tracks EVER at Geauga Lake. Only one person died there and she was athsmatic and had an attack on a coaster. The fact that Cedar Fair bought is the only truth. They didn't buy it just to destroy it. Who in their right business mind would waste hundreds of millions to do that? The height restrictions and the residents lack of going were the reason this park died. Quit blaming Cedar Fair. It wasn't their doing. Aurora said 'No' to expansion and additional rides. Bastards!
That old roller coaster would go off the tracks daily, people got hurt and died, bad. My boss here wouldn't even pay me hourly and hit on all the females. Two summers of working here was worse than being a sex industry worker later in NYC when it was nearly bankrupt. I hated seeing men beat their wives here. I worked two years as a teacher as a volunteer in Ohio and my only pay was a visit to this park twice. And then I ended up working there! Ohio is hell!
@CuteCatFaith - I just did the research. Only one person is ever reported to have died at Geauga lake and it was because she had an asthma attack on the coaster. Not the parks fault. Also, I doubt you saw someone beaten but you should have told park security. That's not the park or Ohio's fault. It's just proof that there are bad people in the world. That's a universal fact.
@Godessmarz17 I told my employers, the Kamens, and they told me to keep quiet. Richard Kamen himself told me of his disgust about deaths there during a thunderstorm. They ran the sketch shops and were not nice people but even they were flummoxed by Lecoco and they were nothing more than slavers. Mr. Kamen cheated on his wife and they divorced. I was fired after two years of faithful service after needing about 3 days off to see a doctor for stomach probs connected with the cantine there.
@Godessmarz17 One of my coworkers at the sketch shops committed suicide, and the work there was a direct cause. We were all horribly upset by it, and one of my coworkers was so troubled, she went totally off the rails. I had to leave the region altogether after this carny hell. It was dreadful, especially talking to the people in the "theatre" and what they had to endure.
@Godessmarz17 Richard Kamen can tell you about the storm with the three and three dead in the park. There was no park security when I worked there, none. I watched family disputes get brutal daily.
@myredrose1974 Good -- he fired me after two summers of slavery cuz I needed to see a doctor one day (the food in the employee canteen really disagreed with me). I didn't even have an hourly wage. Got paid by the sketch. Down in kiddieland and at the coaster stand, those were long days with little business.
@myredrose1974 What a bummer! Yeah, I hope GL comes back! I have the best memories of Euclid Beach, and my family's company fixed a lot of the motors in the rides. I got to see it under winter snow as a tiny girl, and it was surreal! xo
@myredrose1974 I found Chippewa creepy but a lot of people were very attached to it. Chippewa is still haunted, apparently. France still has traveling circuses and attraction parks -- they are really popular and pass through all during the year. It's really old-fashioned and quite "for everyone." I am still fascinated by carrousels, and paid about 8 USD to ride a "Scrambler" in Iceland's capital city. I screamed my head off! I can really understand why people enjoy this sort of thing!
@myredrose1974 Yes, I've seen this mentioned many times on blogs and on video clips. Some people still go to the closed park to observe the haunting and some of the ghosts, apparently, they know who they are. Wild, huh?
That old roller coaster would go off the tracks daily, people got hurt and died, bad. My boss here wouldn't even pay me hourly and hit on all the females. Two summers of working here was worse than being a sex industry worker later in NYC when it was nearly bankrupt. I hated seeing men beat their wives here. I worked two years as a teacher as a volunteer in Ohio and my only pay was a visit to this park twice. And then I ended up working there! Ohio is hell!
i wish that park was still there i went as a kid and u could get through the park in 1 day. >:( i like cedar point to but they should have left good enough alone. they would have made more money by haveing 2 parks right?? i miss going there
Those defending Cedar Fair have no clue. GL was competition for Cedar Point after Six Flags renovation. Many families don't care to drive cross state to stand in line for five hours waiting to ride the "tallest fastest." It's fairly well accepted that CF had no interest in running a park within a stone's throw of Cedar Point that, while not major competition, WAS funneling visitors away from Cedar Point. They systematically set out to dismantle GL with as little adverse publicity as possible.
@writermom1 I agree! Cedar Fair only bought out GL with the intent of closing them down! Anybody who thinks different is just kidding themselves. It had nothing to do with the residents of Aurora. It is really disheartening to see GL in the condition it is now. I still think that something could have been done to save the park from closing or being dismantled. After all, the park was well over 100 years old when it was shut down, this should have been saved as a historic landmark!
I noticed some of the pictures have a tag for illicit ohio on them, but the website does not have a page for geauga lake. Where did you get these pictures? Thanks.
I think Six Flags made the mistake of trying to compete with Cedar Point . They weren't happy being the cheaper alternative to CP and catering to families with smaller kids and that's what Geauga Lake was and if they had kept it that way but with good upkeep and reasonable smaller improvements they might have made a profit. I"m a CP fan but I went to both parks and Big Dipper was my 1st coaster. My older son got to ride it as his 1st too but my little one missed it by a year.
If no one goes to the park you can't stay in business! Same peril happened to Euclid beach park! I don't agree with how they closed the park with almost no pre warning! hopefully the Big Dipper gets preserved,but not likely so sad!
this was my first amusement park i was around 8 the last time i was there i am 13 now & wtf i miss this place sooo much ! This video depresses me :( i remember my first ride there was one a the looney toons area for kids. I really wish it was still opened . So much memories & i can never go again.
@brackattack14 Due to many changes implemented by Cedar Fair including admission prices. They essentially turned it into Cedar Point price points without Cedar Point's attractions and then facetiously said "oh see, it just doesn't make money!"
Anyone who doesn't believe that a corporation the size of Cedar Fair wouldn't set out to "lose" money for a few years on purpose so they could do what they wanted to do while saving face is mislead.
I'm not a big amusement park guy, but it's been here for over a hundred years. Was it loosing money? I mean, they should have gave it one last year of service so people that really wanted one last ride could have had it. You know how much more money they could have gotten if people knew it was its last year?
i miss geuaga i was about 8 the last time i went and was afraid of roller coasters and now im 14 and not scared anymore. i wish i could go ride them now cedar fair you pissed me off
i know how you guys feel and i hope my favorite ameusment parks cedar piont and kings island never ever close, and im sad just watching this i actualy felt the need to gain revenge because kings island sent demon screaming demon to camden park and what did they ddo to it? they destroyed and scrapped deamon screaming demon, and i never even got to ride it:(
you all are just a bunch of cry babes Cedar Fair came in and help this park. This park was old beat up it was time for something new to come and make it better.
(though I know the noise "violations" were ridiculous, so the community really brought poverty/tax hikes on themselves. Don't "like" my link, like "cde209."
As someone who worked there for a summer as a juggler, it wasn't really Cedarfair that killed the park: all the workers knew it was a terrible suburban place for the park to be in. Every time the park wanted a new attraction, they needed the majority approval of all the surrounding houses, which they never got because of noise violations, so they had to tear down an attraction to build a new one. I really appreciate the video, though. I can see where I performed daily. I still miss it...
Geauga Lake was one of the best parks ever. i loved coming here. and when i heard about it closing i got really sad. damn u six flags for buying out GL. -_-/.itll always be in my heart
Geauga Lake was pretty much ruined by Six Flags, when Six Flags also bought out Sea World, and then didn't want to put any money into the Sea World side of the park, and combined the two parks into one. I also went to Geauga Lake before Six flags purchased it, and it was a complete dump. They made it 10 times better.
Cedar Fair tried to make Geauga Lake better, but the attendance was really low, and they couldn't afford to keep the park open. Also no longer competing for business with CP.
This was so sad, all the memories and some crappy company that cared so little about an institution in Cleveland stepped in and destroyed it forever. No one will be able to experience such and amazing place ever again.
this video made my cry! This place was my childhood <3 sooo many wonderful memories. I loved the original wave pool... tutrle beach... I remember when I had to stand on my tippy toes just to be able to ride the Mirage! lol... or when I would put my hair in a high pony-tail so I could ride the Texas Twister when it very first opened and the line was sooooo long!! When the Mind Eraser was the coolest thing! So very sad =(
holding back my tears this is all due to corporate greed !!!!! once lived when this once was now it is all gone !!!! n her too !!!!!!!!!!! im now - forever based on loss !!!!!!!!!!
holding back my tears this is all due to cooperate greed !!!!! once lived when this once was now it is all gone !!!! n her too !!!!!!!!!!! im now - forever based on loss !!!!!!!!!!
I think it was Sea World's closure that ultimately led to Geauga Lake's closure. Sea World was an even bigger draw, and when people looked across the lake, they wanted to go to the other park. I worked at both, and I can't even count the number of times people would ask me, "Where do you get the boat that takes you to the other park?"
boohoo.let me get a tissue for all who blame Cedar Fair on the parks closing.you have yourself to blame-the residents of Aurora.thats right.u all complained about the traffic.u all complained about the noise.and worst of all.u set a height restriction on rides at the park..how can a park expand and compete if it cant build new rides? all the land Cedar Fair would have loved to acquire and all of u denied the sale and development of it..now..all your taxes have increased.thats what u get DUMMIES
@cde209 Love how thats not even the case, ceder fair wanted more people at ceder point, why would you have to operate two water parks just an hour away form each other? They wanted to close it the second they got their hands on it.
@cde209 So true. For a park to actually make money, people have to go there, but the people of Aurora and the surrounding area didn't bother investing in the park. So guess what they lost their park. If they loved the park so much, wouldn't they go there, and spend their money there?
boo hoo.let me get a tissue for all who blame Cedar Fair on the parks closing.you have yourself to blame-the residents of Aurora.thats right.u all complained about the traffic.u all complained about the noise.and worst of all.u set a height restriction on rides at the park..how can a park expand and compete if it cant build new rides? all the land Cedar Fair would have loved to acquire and all of u denied the sale and development of it..now..all your taxes have increased.thats what u get DUMMIES
i'm not trying to say that cedar fair did all they possibly could to save the park... but six flags is the company that it let it go. there was only so much cedar fairs could do and clearly they weren't willing to put too much into it when cedar point is more popular.
look at what six flags did with the park in NOLA. 5 years after the "temporary" close and they are demolishing it.
@HattieLovesCattie It was actually a pretty big park, it was smaller at one point but Six Flags bought the Sea World across the lake from it and they combined them into one big park.
@pladampa Six Flags only added new restaurants, 2 new themed areas, and added 5 coasters. God Six Flags, why'd you do it? (Sarcasm) It's Cedar Fair's fault. They don't want anyone near their precious CP. They were using GL and CP as a fight against KI, Paramoun'ts main park. When Paramount gave in, they sold themselves to CF in 2006. With that said, GL wasn't needed anymore, and 2006 had a shortened season, and the other water park gone. 2007, and 2 coasters missing. :(
@Cinestrio Six Flags couldn't turn a profit on the place. They made the park grow too big too quickly, and by the time Cedar Fair bought it, it was already on its decline. I'm not saying CF didn't make a lot of mistakes, but SF was just as much at fault. If GL had stayed a smaller local park with 4-5 roller coasters, it'd still be around today.
@Cinestrio Why would a small park that survived over a hundred years that way need eight roller coasters? When you consider the competition at that time from Cedar Point, in its prime, it didn't make sense to expand to that extent, especially when the surrounding populace is just enough to support Cedar Point alone. There's a reason the Six Flags CEO that made decisions regarding GL no longer works for the company. I think a Kennywood-sized GL would have been ideal.
@jumpbacktome If it was still owned by SF and they didn't expand that quickly it would DEFINETELY have 8 or more coasters, and if it wasn't it would still need it to survive with CP. Also a park that survived over 100 yrs with only 4-5 coasters is a little sad considering the age.
@Cinestrio I agree that SF would have expanded it, but that doesn't make it good business. As a small park it played the role of a cheaper, close-to-home alternative to CP that could be easily supported by the local population, which is why it survived that long in that state, even into CP's explosion. Not all parks need to be humongous. Lake Compounce is the oldest park in the country, and it only has three roller coasters. Idlewild is third oldest and has two. Both parks thrive today.
Nearly one hundred and twenty years of laughter, joy, love, and happiness gone in an instant that fateful autumn in 2007. How many millions grew up there (I was one), fell in love there, grew old there, found happiness there over all those years? And now, it is all over. Finished.
Something precious has been stolen from us... forever.
If anything we should all look at it from a business perspective, maybe the park couldn't keep itself alive, maybe it wasn't holding a steady profit, which I can believe because it was a small park and I don't think it could afford all the stuff SF put into it.
I think you can trust CF from a business standpoint because their company is a LOT healthier, so maybe they just did the right thing, even though it really sucks.
Six Flags made this park better. When they took over they put in the 3 best rides there. Cedar Fair ( Cedar Point ) ruined this park when they bought it .
Why does everybody blame things on Six Flags they rock CF can go bankrupt and NOT SURVIVE i mean what did Six Flags every do to you?!! Come down south for real Six Flags parks like Over Georgia Fiesta Texas and Over Texas the orginal and all the CF fanboys they trashed it now shut up i cant see anything without yall blamming it on Six Flags!!!
@Coasternator ..Six Flags parks dont hardly compare to Cedar Fair.Cedar Fair owns the BEST park in the country.Six Flags parks are not clean and have terrible staffing..but Six Flags was not to blame for Geauga Lake's closing--THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY WERE.....
to say the truth, six flags screwed the pooch on this family oriented theme park. premier parks (aka six flags did not want to deliver the final blow in running this old gem to the ground. Had this park been farther away from Cedar Fairs flagship park with no other local/regional competition, maybe, just maybe they would have had a chance.
I think it is sad they closed it down but don't whine and cry about it. I happen to love Cedar Fair because they helped Kings Island in Cincinnati. Listen, Cedar Point is twice as big and an hour away. Buy a pass and go there. Its not that much of a drive. Trust. Now stop whining and complaining about Cedar Fair, and move on. Six Flags probably did what happened to the park anyway and Cedar Fair couldn't afford to do anything with it. Be lucky there is still a waterpark there.
This is depresing, theirs nothing to do half the time anyways in northeastern Ohio and they took one of the few fun things we had, I remerber getting season passes with my ex for years and spending Friday and Saturday evenings rideing the rollor coasters or hanging out at the water parks, and they always had something for Halloween. I went to ceder point this summer with some freinds and we did like the rides but we had to stand in line for 2 or 3 hours at a time and we all wished geauga washere
Also, CF never attempted to improve the park in any way, shape or form, and adding cornhole doesn't count either. They did build the new waterpark but they also had a full waterpark on the other side of the lake and they abandoned that one to open another mediocre one which will probably not even be open after the 2010 season. They didn't show no effort at all to redevelop the old waterpark and they even removed two roller coasters, added no rides on the rides side and still increased admission.
Cedar Fair closed the park because Kinzel had a grudge against the park, just read all the things he said about Geauga Lake when it was Six Flags, he was mad that they were going to take away his business from Cedar Point and from that point on, he wanted his hands on the park.
@winningfreak1, you're more than welcome to check this out and research for yourself, I've sent you the link on your profile since it won't let me here.
The biggest question is why would Cedar Fair already have the cranes dismantling the coasters less than two months following the announcement that Geauga Lake was no more, when Cedar Fair have repeatedly said that their decision to close Geauga Lake was made late in the season? Don't believe everything you hear from Sandusky.
My last time there was 2003..Never thought it would close..we went on a busy summer day and it was PACKED..i used to live in NE ohio and we got season passes here every year for 8 years..Its depressing watching this it looks completely unrecognizable.
When Six Flags took over, it actually did help because between the years of 2000 and 2003 more and more people were buying season passes because the park showed it was on the move and made more new rides. But after that when they got rid of good rides and started changing the names of some and making way too many little kid stuff, it made people realize if they are going to spend that kind of money, they should spend it on something better. That's what Kennywood was for.
haha they cant move the big dipper because it is a ohio historic landmark(first wooden roller coaster) but yea y did they decide to close it it was da bomb
@yomamajokes123456 dosen't mean it can't just sit there and rot until ohio want's it removed because it's a safty hazered. Look at Six Flags New Orleans...
Cedarfair didn't kill geauga lake. It was dying a slow death after Sea World left town. Six Flags taking over didn't help either. Cedarfair tried to stop the bleeding but it was too late.
@hooksman60 I think you are sort of right on this. I think Sea World wanted out of their park and Six Flags was hoping it could make a profit by giving the consumer 3 parks for the price of one day at Disney Land. But the cost to run 3 parks was just astronomical and they wanted out. Cedar fair figured they could run 2 parks, charge the same prices and not have to worry about the expense of the animal park. But this just didn't work and they already own one of the biggest parks in north america
Just heart breaking..... Was there 3 times. Once as a kid, once when it was six flags, and again it's last year. I thought CF did a nice job with the place, it was clean and well kept that last year and we had a great time. So sad.
If the ever ride this was the Raging Wolf Bob then yes I loved that ride. This is so sad and so UNFAIR! We don't want the stupid water park (even though the funnel one is fun)! But its not fun to not be able to walk across the board walk and jump onto the Batman Ride. =(
The reasons behind this closing were motivated by greed, plain and simple. Six Flags ruining the park is kind of a moot point. While Six Flags ran the park sales were still up. It was when Cedar Fair swooped in and refused to fix rides and came with crappy customer service that the park truly died.
Also the thing is, it's doubtful the park was really closed because of not enough people coming to the park. If that was the case it would have closed as soon as Cedar Fair got their greedy hands on it. Since, well, sales were actually up in 2007 compared to 2005-2006. Sounds like some sensational spin Cedar Fair and their fans came up with to justify us losing yet another park.
Wow, they did gut this place. Double Loop and old Corkscrew was my first coasters ever, place never had any lines figured it would be around forever!! Sad to see, fucken Cedar Point 60 bucks for a ticket and you wait in line for days
as tears roll down my face i will always remember the place where i could always be a kid and they took it a way from me im now 17 and i've been going there since i could walk and now i cry when i see waut they have done to my one true home R.I.P GEAUGA LAKE!!!!!
Truly heartbreaking. The closing of Geauga Lake was an absolute tragedy for the millions of people who loved the park, including myself.
Some of the greatest moments of my childhood were spent there... The Big Dipper was my first roller coaster (back seat whooooo!). I remember when Turtle Beach opened, when the Mirage was added, getting knocked down and scraped up in The Wave, braving the Enterprise and The Rotor. Back when Funtime was in charge.
Dick Kinzel is a DICK. He couldn't manage his way out of a paper bag. He has done so many stupid things while running Cedar Fair - overpaying for parks, making bad marketing decisions, and now completely fucking up the sale of the company. Why unit holders of the trust put up with his shit is beyond me.
I loved this park. Like many others who have posted before me we thought Cedar Fair was the best thing for the park. It couldn't be further from the truth!
I went there 3 times and I loved it! seeing these videos and stuff honestly makes me cry how these FUCKING CEDARFAIR ASSHOLES RUINED IT! xP like seriously why would they do this? And this also makes me scared because I live 10 min away from kennywood which is the amusement park I love with ALL my heart and it was bought by a different company about 2 years ago and it worries me that THIS could possibly happen...
I grew up at Geauga lake. My first date ever was there. My first kiss was in line for the Raging Wolf Bobs.
It was great to have a small park alternative with some decent rides and a decent price. The happiest day of my G.L. memories was when Cedar Fair bought the park... They completely made it the worst. I thought how great it would be and that I could finally bring myself to getting a season pass.
I have my own family now, I will never take them there, can't feed the G.L. killers
Every year, my dad and I would go there when i was growing up to his company pincnic. Its just awlful that it closed. And my parents said the same about Euclid Beach Park when it closed. Just awlful
what i think happend yes cedar fair knew they could eliminate the comp. but what i think is the ticket prices were 30.00 a little high for a smaller park, and they were loosing money so they had to sell everything and ended up makeing a great deal of money and now you have a bigger cedar point. i really miss geauga lake iv been there every year since i was little. sad thing is,the company that took all of my memorys away is the company i work for now :0 called cedarfair/cedar point
man this is so sad. i grew up here at this park. dad's company picnics every summer would love coming here. really sad. amazing rides like big dipper, villian, knight flight, x flight, serial thriller, mind eraser, mr hydes nasty fall....sad stuff rip geauga lake/six flags worlds of adventures
I was out at the park yesterday (1/26/12) and I can say that many of the things in this video no longer exist. The station for the Merry Oldies is gone, the majority of the buildings are gone, the Skyscraper is gone (although the base of it still stands, I saw it)... the entire scene is incredibly sad.
All that remains, now, is the wreck of the Raging Wolf Bobs, The SkyCoaster, a few small buildings, and the very heart of Geauga Lake itself, The Big Dipper. I may make a video with my own photos
robophreeq 1 day ago
I see this video and it reminds me a bit of my city. My city was the home of 3 different amusement parks (at different times) and to this day, not a single one remains. Oddly enough, Six Flags had a hand in the 3rd amusement park's demise. Coincidence?
gwenny3080 1 week ago
I use to live in Ohio about 30 years ago and remember going here...Also remember Sea World across the lake. I told everyone in Kansas there was a Sea World in Ohio, but no one believed it.
jeffs1000 1 week ago
Grew up right next to there. Lots of memories
VEnom192 2 weeks ago
I rode my first roller coaster ever here--the Double-Loop. :(
gypsycaine 3 weeks ago
I miss this place I went here before cedar pointe purchased it and killed it
jmanrocks15 4 weeks ago
such a.sad.site. it was a such a good park. i so hated to.see.it go to waste
ICsucks 1 month ago
I have lived in Ohio my whole life and this is the only park I have ever enjoyed! I wish it would be reopened! Something needs to be done!
suedee5971 1 month ago
From what it looks like on google earth it looks like they tore half of the roller coasters down. Never been to this place but it makes me so sad to see what was once a thriving Seaworld, Six Flags, and more to now be a rotting pile.
petepenguin 2 months ago
kinda disrespectful to see some things that could have been used just laying around
droubie66 2 months ago
Its sad to see this park be shut down for how long it was open for. My park now has The Grand Carrousel at Worlds of Fun.
blooblikesyou 3 months ago
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My God with the AMAZING GRACE music. 6 minutes of that and I want to pull out my ear drums with a pair of needle nose pliers. How about mixing in something else more fitting like I WENT BACK TO OHIO AND MY CITY WAS GONE. And how many times do we need to see the same shot of the same coaster??? By your mind 16 times. And the main gate? 12 times. Wow! This video could've been 3 minutes shorter. The best ride was the Skyscraper. Outdoor elevator to see the whole park and Kent State University.
treasurehunter911 3 months ago
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treasurehunter911 3 months ago
No coasters went off the tracks EVER at Geauga Lake. Only one person died there and she was athsmatic and had an attack on a coaster. The fact that Cedar Fair bought is the only truth. They didn't buy it just to destroy it. Who in their right business mind would waste hundreds of millions to do that? The height restrictions and the residents lack of going were the reason this park died. Quit blaming Cedar Fair. It wasn't their doing. Aurora said 'No' to expansion and additional rides. Bastards!
treasurehunter911 3 months ago 2
i hope it opens back up and get more rollercoasters
Jazminrennelynn412 3 months ago
i hoe it opens back up and get more rollercoasters
Jazminrennelynn412 3 months ago
That old roller coaster would go off the tracks daily, people got hurt and died, bad. My boss here wouldn't even pay me hourly and hit on all the females. Two summers of working here was worse than being a sex industry worker later in NYC when it was nearly bankrupt. I hated seeing men beat their wives here. I worked two years as a teacher as a volunteer in Ohio and my only pay was a visit to this park twice. And then I ended up working there! Ohio is hell!
CuteCatFaith 4 months ago
@CuteCatFaith - I just did the research. Only one person is ever reported to have died at Geauga lake and it was because she had an asthma attack on the coaster. Not the parks fault. Also, I doubt you saw someone beaten but you should have told park security. That's not the park or Ohio's fault. It's just proof that there are bad people in the world. That's a universal fact.
Godessmarz17 4 months ago
@Godessmarz17 I told my employers, the Kamens, and they told me to keep quiet. Richard Kamen himself told me of his disgust about deaths there during a thunderstorm. They ran the sketch shops and were not nice people but even they were flummoxed by Lecoco and they were nothing more than slavers. Mr. Kamen cheated on his wife and they divorced. I was fired after two years of faithful service after needing about 3 days off to see a doctor for stomach probs connected with the cantine there.
CuteCatFaith 4 months ago
@Godessmarz17 One of my coworkers at the sketch shops committed suicide, and the work there was a direct cause. We were all horribly upset by it, and one of my coworkers was so troubled, she went totally off the rails. I had to leave the region altogether after this carny hell. It was dreadful, especially talking to the people in the "theatre" and what they had to endure.
CuteCatFaith 4 months ago
@Godessmarz17 Richard Kamen can tell you about the storm with the three and three dead in the park. There was no park security when I worked there, none. I watched family disputes get brutal daily.
CuteCatFaith 3 months ago
@CuteCatFaith wtf drug u on!!???
myredrose1974 2 months ago
dick is an ass for ruining this park!
myredrose1974 2 months ago
@myredrose1974 I don't know, did he take over there? That would be a scary thought. I found him nasty and felt really sorry for his ex.
CuteCatFaith 2 months ago
@CuteCatFaith he did yes, he got fired
myredrose1974 2 months ago
@myredrose1974 Good -- he fired me after two summers of slavery cuz I needed to see a doctor one day (the food in the employee canteen really disagreed with me). I didn't even have an hourly wage. Got paid by the sketch. Down in kiddieland and at the coaster stand, those were long days with little business.
CuteCatFaith 2 months ago
@CuteCatFaith he brought everything down! This is absurd. i sure hope the new one makes it better and reopens G.L.
myredrose1974 2 months ago
@myredrose1974 What a bummer! Yeah, I hope GL comes back! I have the best memories of Euclid Beach, and my family's company fixed a lot of the motors in the rides. I got to see it under winter snow as a tiny girl, and it was surreal! xo
CuteCatFaith 2 months ago
@CuteCatFaith yes that and Chippewa lake
myredrose1974 2 months ago
@myredrose1974 I found Chippewa creepy but a lot of people were very attached to it. Chippewa is still haunted, apparently. France still has traveling circuses and attraction parks -- they are really popular and pass through all during the year. It's really old-fashioned and quite "for everyone." I am still fascinated by carrousels, and paid about 8 USD to ride a "Scrambler" in Iceland's capital city. I screamed my head off! I can really understand why people enjoy this sort of thing!
CuteCatFaith 2 months ago
@CuteCatFaith haunted?
myredrose1974 1 month ago
@myredrose1974 Yes, I've seen this mentioned many times on blogs and on video clips. Some people still go to the closed park to observe the haunting and some of the ghosts, apparently, they know who they are. Wild, huh?
CuteCatFaith 1 month ago
@CuteCatFaith that would be awesome, but sad in the same way.. want the park to be open.. i know on some of the videos, it has the eerie whine sound
myredrose1974 1 month ago
That old roller coaster would go off the tracks daily, people got hurt and died, bad. My boss here wouldn't even pay me hourly and hit on all the females. Two summers of working here was worse than being a sex industry worker later in NYC when it was nearly bankrupt. I hated seeing men beat their wives here. I worked two years as a teacher as a volunteer in Ohio and my only pay was a visit to this park twice. And then I ended up working there! Ohio is hell!
CuteCatFaith 4 months ago
i wish that park was still there i went as a kid and u could get through the park in 1 day. >:( i like cedar point to but they should have left good enough alone. they would have made more money by haveing 2 parks right?? i miss going there
5242wendy 4 months ago
its sad looking
beatlelover4211 4 months ago
they should also reopen sea world
Koasterking212 5 months ago
does cedar fair still own rights to geauga lake if not i gotta go down there and try to reopen it
Koasterking212 5 months ago
Those defending Cedar Fair have no clue. GL was competition for Cedar Point after Six Flags renovation. Many families don't care to drive cross state to stand in line for five hours waiting to ride the "tallest fastest." It's fairly well accepted that CF had no interest in running a park within a stone's throw of Cedar Point that, while not major competition, WAS funneling visitors away from Cedar Point. They systematically set out to dismantle GL with as little adverse publicity as possible.
writermom1 5 months ago 6
@writermom1 I agree! Cedar Fair only bought out GL with the intent of closing them down! Anybody who thinks different is just kidding themselves. It had nothing to do with the residents of Aurora. It is really disheartening to see GL in the condition it is now. I still think that something could have been done to save the park from closing or being dismantled. After all, the park was well over 100 years old when it was shut down, this should have been saved as a historic landmark!
leokittycat1977 4 months ago 2
I noticed some of the pictures have a tag for illicit ohio on them, but the website does not have a page for geauga lake. Where did you get these pictures? Thanks.
omglookakitty 5 months ago
Six Flags is the one who ripped the heart right out of Geuaga Lake, not Cedar Fair.
rollercoaster1111 5 months ago
@rollercoaster1111 how six flags
Koasterking212 5 months ago
@Koasterking212 Read "cde209's" comment. It's one of the top comments.
rollercoaster1111 5 months ago
I think Six Flags made the mistake of trying to compete with Cedar Point . They weren't happy being the cheaper alternative to CP and catering to families with smaller kids and that's what Geauga Lake was and if they had kept it that way but with good upkeep and reasonable smaller improvements they might have made a profit. I"m a CP fan but I went to both parks and Big Dipper was my 1st coaster. My older son got to ride it as his 1st too but my little one missed it by a year.
PianoShapedObject 5 months ago
If no one goes to the park you can't stay in business! Same peril happened to Euclid beach park! I don't agree with how they closed the park with almost no pre warning! hopefully the Big Dipper gets preserved,but not likely so sad!
pavman1000 6 months ago
this was my first amusement park i was around 8 the last time i was there i am 13 now & wtf i miss this place sooo much ! This video depresses me :( i remember my first ride there was one a the looney toons area for kids. I really wish it was still opened . So much memories & i can never go again.
HeatherandViolet 6 months ago
Is there anything left at the site now? Is it relatively "easy" to get into?
ltd4all 6 months ago
what as that at .46?
myredrose1974 6 months ago
this is disgusting and so fucking sad.. damn that guy!! and no the land isnt sold yet.. cedar fuck still owns it.
myredrose1974 6 months ago
@myredrose1974 A park can't stay open if it doesn't make money. Only 700,000 guests visited in 2005.
brackattack14 5 months ago
@brackattack14 Due to many changes implemented by Cedar Fair including admission prices. They essentially turned it into Cedar Point price points without Cedar Point's attractions and then facetiously said "oh see, it just doesn't make money!"
Anyone who doesn't believe that a corporation the size of Cedar Fair wouldn't set out to "lose" money for a few years on purpose so they could do what they wanted to do while saving face is mislead.
writermom1 5 months ago
Are you able to get into the park is security tight?
myzery3571 6 months ago
@Lynchbabi Some little things are left. But most of it is gone and just a water park now. They sold the land to make condos.
scottieman2 6 months ago
I'm not a big amusement park guy, but it's been here for over a hundred years. Was it loosing money? I mean, they should have gave it one last year of service so people that really wanted one last ride could have had it. You know how much more money they could have gotten if people knew it was its last year?
scottieman2 6 months ago
blame premier parks bad biz plan, then cedarfairs viciousness
PrimeTargetSecurity 6 months ago
was it easy to get into the park then??
jrodxXxbubba 6 months ago
i miss geuaga i was about 8 the last time i went and was afraid of roller coasters and now im 14 and not scared anymore. i wish i could go ride them now cedar fair you pissed me off
johngoat13 6 months ago
i know how you guys feel and i hope my favorite ameusment parks cedar piont and kings island never ever close, and im sad just watching this i actualy felt the need to gain revenge because kings island sent demon screaming demon to camden park and what did they ddo to it? they destroyed and scrapped deamon screaming demon, and i never even got to ride it:(
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bohrokthunder 6 months ago
you all are just a bunch of cry babes Cedar Fair came in and help this park. This park was old beat up it was time for something new to come and make it better.
92VORTEX 6 months ago
@92VORTEX And look what happened, it's closed.
scottieman2 6 months ago
@92VORTEX ya? so why is geauga lake gone then if they did?
myredrose1974 6 months ago
if i won the lottery, i'd rebuild this park.
too many memories gone for me and a lot of other people.
RawrnessRawr10 6 months ago 6
@RawrnessRawr10 me too there is a lot of people who have never been there.
cfeirl 1 month ago
(though I know the noise "violations" were ridiculous, so the community really brought poverty/tax hikes on themselves. Don't "like" my link, like "cde209."
Robalexwalter 6 months ago
As someone who worked there for a summer as a juggler, it wasn't really Cedarfair that killed the park: all the workers knew it was a terrible suburban place for the park to be in. Every time the park wanted a new attraction, they needed the majority approval of all the surrounding houses, which they never got because of noise violations, so they had to tear down an attraction to build a new one. I really appreciate the video, though. I can see where I performed daily. I still miss it...
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Bman8873 7 months ago
now i have to drive 3 hours to sandusky insted of 30 minuets to here
BrownsRule1166 7 months ago
what is cedar fair? it is a kind of fair right?
SpeakMyMind500 7 months ago
@SpeakMyMind500 It's a company that has a chain of amusement parks. Similar to how there is more than one Six Flags.
Xcelerometer 7 months ago
@Xcelerometer oh ok.
SpeakMyMind500 7 months ago
I fucking hate who toke it down I loved that place so much
MrExample81 7 months ago
I miss Geauga Lake so much!
usa02 7 months ago
Geauga Lake was one of the best parks ever. i loved coming here. and when i heard about it closing i got really sad. damn u six flags for buying out GL. -_-/.itll always be in my heart
xRaWrDiNox1 8 months ago
cedair fair saved the remains of GL, i thank them for saving the water park. 6 flags ran GL to the ground along with many other parks across the u.s.
Y0UNGPR0JECT 8 months ago
Geauga Lake was pretty much ruined by Six Flags, when Six Flags also bought out Sea World, and then didn't want to put any money into the Sea World side of the park, and combined the two parks into one. I also went to Geauga Lake before Six flags purchased it, and it was a complete dump. They made it 10 times better.
Cedar Fair tried to make Geauga Lake better, but the attendance was really low, and they couldn't afford to keep the park open. Also no longer competing for business with CP.
brimancandy 8 months ago
i remember it like it was yesterday. so many memories both good and bad. so much fun.
jobroslovers21 9 months ago
this was just too damn sad with amazing grace on the bagpipes I really liked coming here as a kid!
Redrussian1983 9 months ago
This was so sad, all the memories and some crappy company that cared so little about an institution in Cleveland stepped in and destroyed it forever. No one will be able to experience such and amazing place ever again.
Moldo7787 10 months ago 2
this video made my cry! This place was my childhood <3 sooo many wonderful memories. I loved the original wave pool... tutrle beach... I remember when I had to stand on my tippy toes just to be able to ride the Mirage! lol... or when I would put my hair in a high pony-tail so I could ride the Texas Twister when it very first opened and the line was sooooo long!! When the Mind Eraser was the coolest thing! So very sad =(
JennLVsFC 10 months ago
Fell in love at Guega Lake ,,,,was the best place ever ...Breaks my heart to watch this vid ,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Deadgyrl 10 months ago
so many great GREAT times there. so sad to see it just rot
EightYourVtec 10 months ago
1:00-1:18 the funniest part
dtigers30ftw 10 months ago
yay gotta love cedar fair
dtigers30ftw 10 months ago
some of the rides got shipped to other amusement parks
farmkid01 10 months ago
holding back my tears this is all due to corporate greed !!!!! once lived when this once was now it is all gone !!!! n her too !!!!!!!!!!! im now - forever based on loss !!!!!!!!!!
bolmsp 11 months ago
holding back my tears this is all due to cooperate greed !!!!! once lived when this once was now it is all gone !!!! n her too !!!!!!!!!!! im now - forever based on loss !!!!!!!!!!
bolmsp 11 months ago
this really makes me mad!!
i grew up with this place we used to go here every year
it makes me so mad that when they closed it down they just left it to rot!!
WeaslysWizardWeezes 11 months ago 2
@WeaslysWizardWeezes cooperate scum did this !!!!
bolmsp 11 months ago
@bolmsp i agree
money-loving jerks
WeaslysWizardWeezes 11 months ago
@WeaslysWizardWeezes corporate scum did this !!!!
bolmsp 11 months ago 2
Man talk about about ghost town....
guccimanetalent 1 year ago
its not fair :( i grew up with that place
EmoSqueaksMaster 1 year ago
SO SAD!! I was never there ,What happened?? Why did it close? This is happening all over the country!
mgrella63 1 year ago
I clicked "like" on this video, but what I really wanted to do was click dislike :'(
I had so many memories there growing up. It kills me seeing these pictures.
I remember one time my Grandpa Reese took me to meet WWE Divas Torrie Wilson & Lita there back in 2003 :)
Frizz90 1 year ago 13
mr hyde's nasty fall
seriel thriller
conquor 1 year ago
Nothing more sad than the death of an amusement park
DrainDeclogger 1 year ago 2
Anyone remember the cable cars over the swamp lol
HyperKandie 1 year ago
@HyperKandie That had to be the shittiest cable car ride ever lol I remember they would barely stop at the station for you to jump on.
Turtle3000GT 8 months ago
I think it was Sea World's closure that ultimately led to Geauga Lake's closure. Sea World was an even bigger draw, and when people looked across the lake, they wanted to go to the other park. I worked at both, and I can't even count the number of times people would ask me, "Where do you get the boat that takes you to the other park?"
jenifroufrou 1 year ago 2
boohoo.let me get a tissue for all who blame Cedar Fair on the parks closing.you have yourself to blame-the residents of Aurora.thats right.u all complained about the traffic.u all complained about the noise.and worst of all.u set a height restriction on rides at the park..how can a park expand and compete if it cant build new rides? all the land Cedar Fair would have loved to acquire and all of u denied the sale and development of it..now..all your taxes have increased.thats what u get DUMMIES
cde209 1 year ago 10
@cde209 shut your mouth retard your probally not even from aurora
iluvunderoath23 7 months ago
@cde209 Love how thats not even the case, ceder fair wanted more people at ceder point, why would you have to operate two water parks just an hour away form each other? They wanted to close it the second they got their hands on it.
Moldo7787 6 months ago
@cde209 None of us in Aurora shut the park down PERIOD. If you want to send me a tissue.... shove it in your mouth. Maybe less shit will come out.
HooverDrumMajor 6 months ago
@cde209 Dam you hit that right on the nose the aurora cry babies got what they deserved now I hope they enjoy the raised taxes!!!!!
mstngken 6 months ago
@cde209 So true. For a park to actually make money, people have to go there, but the people of Aurora and the surrounding area didn't bother investing in the park. So guess what they lost their park. If they loved the park so much, wouldn't they go there, and spend their money there?
Cinestrio 5 months ago
boo hoo.let me get a tissue for all who blame Cedar Fair on the parks closing.you have yourself to blame-the residents of Aurora.thats right.u all complained about the traffic.u all complained about the noise.and worst of all.u set a height restriction on rides at the park..how can a park expand and compete if it cant build new rides? all the land Cedar Fair would have loved to acquire and all of u denied the sale and development of it..now..all your taxes have increased.thats what u get DUMMIES
cde209 1 year ago
why did six flags even sell this property to them.
Cheerboy16 1 year ago
Obviously the owner of Cedar Fair has issues that he needs to settle with his therapist, but that ain't our problem.
Cinestrio 1 year ago
i'm not trying to say that cedar fair did all they possibly could to save the park... but six flags is the company that it let it go. there was only so much cedar fairs could do and clearly they weren't willing to put too much into it when cedar point is more popular.
look at what six flags did with the park in NOLA. 5 years after the "temporary" close and they are demolishing it.
summerinb 1 year ago
Another smaller park that died.I've never heard of this place but have seen Cedar Point from a distance while driving thru Ohio a few years ago.
HattieLovesCattie 1 year ago
@HattieLovesCattie It was actually a pretty big park, it was smaller at one point but Six Flags bought the Sea World across the lake from it and they combined them into one big park.
hundoe100 1 year ago
thats fucking sad haven't been there in years guess six flags destoyed it bastards
pladampa 1 year ago
@pladampa Six Flags only added new restaurants, 2 new themed areas, and added 5 coasters. God Six Flags, why'd you do it? (Sarcasm) It's Cedar Fair's fault. They don't want anyone near their precious CP. They were using GL and CP as a fight against KI, Paramoun'ts main park. When Paramount gave in, they sold themselves to CF in 2006. With that said, GL wasn't needed anymore, and 2006 had a shortened season, and the other water park gone. 2007, and 2 coasters missing. :(
Cinestrio 1 year ago
@Cinestrio My bad I was wrong just upset about this happening
pladampa 1 year ago
@Cinestrio Six Flags couldn't turn a profit on the place. They made the park grow too big too quickly, and by the time Cedar Fair bought it, it was already on its decline. I'm not saying CF didn't make a lot of mistakes, but SF was just as much at fault. If GL had stayed a smaller local park with 4-5 roller coasters, it'd still be around today.
jumpbacktome 9 months ago
@jumpbacktome Well not with 4-5 coasters, as a SF park.....It'd need at least 8, but slowly built to make a profit.
Cinestrio 9 months ago
@Cinestrio Why would a small park that survived over a hundred years that way need eight roller coasters? When you consider the competition at that time from Cedar Point, in its prime, it didn't make sense to expand to that extent, especially when the surrounding populace is just enough to support Cedar Point alone. There's a reason the Six Flags CEO that made decisions regarding GL no longer works for the company. I think a Kennywood-sized GL would have been ideal.
Of course I'm no exec. :P
jumpbacktome 9 months ago
@jumpbacktome If it was still owned by SF and they didn't expand that quickly it would DEFINETELY have 8 or more coasters, and if it wasn't it would still need it to survive with CP. Also a park that survived over 100 yrs with only 4-5 coasters is a little sad considering the age.
Cinestrio 9 months ago
@Cinestrio I agree that SF would have expanded it, but that doesn't make it good business. As a small park it played the role of a cheaper, close-to-home alternative to CP that could be easily supported by the local population, which is why it survived that long in that state, even into CP's explosion. Not all parks need to be humongous. Lake Compounce is the oldest park in the country, and it only has three roller coasters. Idlewild is third oldest and has two. Both parks thrive today.
jumpbacktome 9 months ago
Nearly one hundred and twenty years of laughter, joy, love, and happiness gone in an instant that fateful autumn in 2007. How many millions grew up there (I was one), fell in love there, grew old there, found happiness there over all those years? And now, it is all over. Finished.
Something precious has been stolen from us... forever.
Never forget.
robophreeq 1 year ago
If anything we should all look at it from a business perspective, maybe the park couldn't keep itself alive, maybe it wasn't holding a steady profit, which I can believe because it was a small park and I don't think it could afford all the stuff SF put into it.
I think you can trust CF from a business standpoint because their company is a LOT healthier, so maybe they just did the right thing, even though it really sucks.
WrathOfFlame 1 year ago
Six Flags made this park better. When they took over they put in the 3 best rides there. Cedar Fair ( Cedar Point ) ruined this park when they bought it .
gmanexiledj 1 year ago
Why does everybody blame things on Six Flags they rock CF can go bankrupt and NOT SURVIVE i mean what did Six Flags every do to you?!! Come down south for real Six Flags parks like Over Georgia Fiesta Texas and Over Texas the orginal and all the CF fanboys they trashed it now shut up i cant see anything without yall blamming it on Six Flags!!!
Coasternator 1 year ago
@Coasternator ..Six Flags parks dont hardly compare to Cedar Fair.Cedar Fair owns the BEST park in the country.Six Flags parks are not clean and have terrible staffing..but Six Flags was not to blame for Geauga Lake's closing--THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY WERE.....
cde209 1 year ago
so sad, but noone will ever take away the memories...........
gpmasch 1 year ago
to say the truth, six flags screwed the pooch on this family oriented theme park. premier parks (aka six flags did not want to deliver the final blow in running this old gem to the ground. Had this park been farther away from Cedar Fairs flagship park with no other local/regional competition, maybe, just maybe they would have had a chance.
RIP Geauga Lake
budw84 1 year ago
I think it is sad they closed it down but don't whine and cry about it. I happen to love Cedar Fair because they helped Kings Island in Cincinnati. Listen, Cedar Point is twice as big and an hour away. Buy a pass and go there. Its not that much of a drive. Trust. Now stop whining and complaining about Cedar Fair, and move on. Six Flags probably did what happened to the park anyway and Cedar Fair couldn't afford to do anything with it. Be lucky there is still a waterpark there.
puggersisveryfat 1 year ago
This is depresing, theirs nothing to do half the time anyways in northeastern Ohio and they took one of the few fun things we had, I remerber getting season passes with my ex for years and spending Friday and Saturday evenings rideing the rollor coasters or hanging out at the water parks, and they always had something for Halloween. I went to ceder point this summer with some freinds and we did like the rides but we had to stand in line for 2 or 3 hours at a time and we all wished geauga washere
Germain70 1 year ago
Also, CF never attempted to improve the park in any way, shape or form, and adding cornhole doesn't count either. They did build the new waterpark but they also had a full waterpark on the other side of the lake and they abandoned that one to open another mediocre one which will probably not even be open after the 2010 season. They didn't show no effort at all to redevelop the old waterpark and they even removed two roller coasters, added no rides on the rides side and still increased admission.
neurodistortion 1 year ago
Cedar Fair closed the park because Kinzel had a grudge against the park, just read all the things he said about Geauga Lake when it was Six Flags, he was mad that they were going to take away his business from Cedar Point and from that point on, he wanted his hands on the park.
neurodistortion 1 year ago
@neurodistortion got any links for this?
winningfreak1 1 year ago
@winningfreak1, you're more than welcome to check this out and research for yourself, I've sent you the link on your profile since it won't let me here.
The biggest question is why would Cedar Fair already have the cranes dismantling the coasters less than two months following the announcement that Geauga Lake was no more, when Cedar Fair have repeatedly said that their decision to close Geauga Lake was made late in the season? Don't believe everything you hear from Sandusky.
neurodistortion 1 year ago
This is so sad. I can remember in high school I used to work here. My parents only live about 5 min. from the park. So very sad........
kumite2112 1 year ago
Greed gets you nowhere! Assholes can go die in GL's hole!
LogoRifle 1 year ago
HOW DID THIS EVER HAPPEND! WTF!
TWONYART76 1 year ago
watching this makes me regrest buying cedar fair season passes. i wish i could get my money back....-__-....i miss this park so freakin much... :/
Tyses 1 year ago
I goddamn miss geauga lake.
CommanderC00L558 1 year ago
My last time there was 2003..Never thought it would close..we went on a busy summer day and it was PACKED..i used to live in NE ohio and we got season passes here every year for 8 years..Its depressing watching this it looks completely unrecognizable.
srb89 1 year ago
When Six Flags took over, it actually did help because between the years of 2000 and 2003 more and more people were buying season passes because the park showed it was on the move and made more new rides. But after that when they got rid of good rides and started changing the names of some and making way too many little kid stuff, it made people realize if they are going to spend that kind of money, they should spend it on something better. That's what Kennywood was for.
Grapes428 1 year ago
haha they cant move the big dipper because it is a ohio historic landmark(first wooden roller coaster) but yea y did they decide to close it it was da bomb
yomamajokes123456 1 year ago
@yomamajokes123456 dosen't mean it can't just sit there and rot until ohio want's it removed because it's a safty hazered. Look at Six Flags New Orleans...
winningfreak1 1 year ago
Cedarfair didn't kill geauga lake. It was dying a slow death after Sea World left town. Six Flags taking over didn't help either. Cedarfair tried to stop the bleeding but it was too late.
hooksman60 1 year ago
@hooksman60 I think you are sort of right on this. I think Sea World wanted out of their park and Six Flags was hoping it could make a profit by giving the consumer 3 parks for the price of one day at Disney Land. But the cost to run 3 parks was just astronomical and they wanted out. Cedar fair figured they could run 2 parks, charge the same prices and not have to worry about the expense of the animal park. But this just didn't work and they already own one of the biggest parks in north america
winningfreak1 1 year ago
RIP
mariaday 1 year ago
how many assmusment parks does ohio have?
MrMillerx1 1 year ago
This kind of reminds me of when Six Flags closed down Astroworld. =(
2010Hershey 1 year ago
Just heart breaking..... Was there 3 times. Once as a kid, once when it was six flags, and again it's last year. I thought CF did a nice job with the place, it was clean and well kept that last year and we had a great time. So sad.
funkeytoad08 1 year ago
very ugly and unkept park, who would want to spend their money here?
SGarv04 1 year ago
I miss raging wolf bobs. I remember being a kid, riding that shit over n over n over. I think our record was like 27 times in one day. =(
sloanmidwestXTC 1 year ago
so many memories...
bichonmo1 1 year ago
If the ever ride this was the Raging Wolf Bob then yes I loved that ride. This is so sad and so UNFAIR! We don't want the stupid water park (even though the funnel one is fun)! But its not fun to not be able to walk across the board walk and jump onto the Batman Ride. =(
windhammites07 1 year ago
The water park that they have now sucks bring back the original roller coasters! Double loop will always be my favorite ride! R.I.P DOUBLE LOOP
MrJakeI1 1 year ago
yea cedar fair pretty much sucks. geauga lake was a great park
ncs553 1 year ago 2
The reasons behind this closing were motivated by greed, plain and simple. Six Flags ruining the park is kind of a moot point. While Six Flags ran the park sales were still up. It was when Cedar Fair swooped in and refused to fix rides and came with crappy customer service that the park truly died.
AstronAstroll 1 year ago
Also the thing is, it's doubtful the park was really closed because of not enough people coming to the park. If that was the case it would have closed as soon as Cedar Fair got their greedy hands on it. Since, well, sales were actually up in 2007 compared to 2005-2006. Sounds like some sensational spin Cedar Fair and their fans came up with to justify us losing yet another park.
AstronAstroll 1 year ago
Wow, they did gut this place. Double Loop and old Corkscrew was my first coasters ever, place never had any lines figured it would be around forever!! Sad to see, fucken Cedar Point 60 bucks for a ticket and you wait in line for days
Turtle3000GT 1 year ago 2
cedarfair F**K YOU!!!! RIP GEAUGA LAKE!!!!!
nerddaddy605 1 year ago
as tears roll down my face i will always remember the place where i could always be a kid and they took it a way from me im now 17 and i've been going there since i could walk and now i cry when i see waut they have done to my one true home R.I.P GEAUGA LAKE!!!!!
amiller3108 1 year ago
I will truly miss this park. I can't even count how many times I visited this place as a child.
smoovbeing 1 year ago
Truly heartbreaking. The closing of Geauga Lake was an absolute tragedy for the millions of people who loved the park, including myself.
Some of the greatest moments of my childhood were spent there... The Big Dipper was my first roller coaster (back seat whooooo!). I remember when Turtle Beach opened, when the Mirage was added, getting knocked down and scraped up in The Wave, braving the Enterprise and The Rotor. Back when Funtime was in charge.
119 years, and this is how it ends. Just awful.
robophreeq 1 year ago
Dick Kinzel is a DICK. He couldn't manage his way out of a paper bag. He has done so many stupid things while running Cedar Fair - overpaying for parks, making bad marketing decisions, and now completely fucking up the sale of the company. Why unit holders of the trust put up with his shit is beyond me.
I loved this park. Like many others who have posted before me we thought Cedar Fair was the best thing for the park. It couldn't be further from the truth!
tritonrocks 1 year ago
I went there 3 times and I loved it! seeing these videos and stuff honestly makes me cry how these FUCKING CEDARFAIR ASSHOLES RUINED IT! xP like seriously why would they do this? And this also makes me scared because I live 10 min away from kennywood which is the amusement park I love with ALL my heart and it was bought by a different company about 2 years ago and it worries me that THIS could possibly happen...
CrayonPie739 1 year ago
I grew up at Geauga lake. My first date ever was there. My first kiss was in line for the Raging Wolf Bobs.
It was great to have a small park alternative with some decent rides and a decent price. The happiest day of my G.L. memories was when Cedar Fair bought the park... They completely made it the worst. I thought how great it would be and that I could finally bring myself to getting a season pass.
I have my own family now, I will never take them there, can't feed the G.L. killers
KegSpize 1 year ago 2
I found my cooler @ 6:34.
mcbaranyk 1 year ago
Every year, my dad and I would go there when i was growing up to his company pincnic. Its just awlful that it closed. And my parents said the same about Euclid Beach Park when it closed. Just awlful
TiffanyJuliet 1 year ago
FUCK YOU CEDAR FAIR THIS PLACE WAS FUN
SFGAM76 1 year ago
what i think happend yes cedar fair knew they could eliminate the comp. but what i think is the ticket prices were 30.00 a little high for a smaller park, and they were loosing money so they had to sell everything and ended up makeing a great deal of money and now you have a bigger cedar point. i really miss geauga lake iv been there every year since i was little. sad thing is,the company that took all of my memorys away is the company i work for now :0 called cedarfair/cedar point
excessive2965 1 year ago
its so sad dperessing and bothersome i wish they owuld bring it back :C
amgn971 1 year ago
i guess we will be seeing the same for Kentucky Kingdom
larken24 2 years ago
man this is so sad. i grew up here at this park. dad's company picnics every summer would love coming here. really sad. amazing rides like big dipper, villian, knight flight, x flight, serial thriller, mind eraser, mr hydes nasty fall....sad stuff rip geauga lake/six flags worlds of adventures
ucbearcat459 2 years ago