Chippewa Lake Park Pier 2008

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This is from a visit I made to the former Chippewa Lake Park near Medina, Ohio. The park has been sitting abandoned, and deteriorating, for the past 30 years. The land has been bought to be redeveloped into "Chippewa Landing," and construction is planned to start in 2009.
Link to Chippewa Landing website:
http://www.chippewalandingohio.com/

This is the pier where people boarded boats including "Miss Chippewa" and "Tom Sawyer." (The Tom Sawyer boat is still at the park, beached, and cabled down to the ground on the shore.)

When I turn around and pan the shoreline that is approximately where the park's picnic pavilion was. (It was from the pier to the cement pylons that stick out of the water) It was lost to arson in the 80's; there is a very small corner portion left, which is visible for a second at the beginning of the video.

Recorded with my Samsung NV24HD camera.

If you would like to see pictures from my visits to the park go to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tapm/sets/72157607683747824/

(And the squeaking you might hear in the video is from my camera bag. I did not add a soundtrack because I wanted you to be able to here all of the sounds in the forest, the birds, the bugs, and on the lake, the wind, and more birds, etc.)

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[kelleyclover]

My family rented a cottage at Chippewa Lake t - not right by the park up near the old Glenhaven Nursing home. Anyway - I learned to waterski on that Lake - brings back memories of some of the best times of my life :)

[wii041]

That's great! It is a beautiful lake and there always seem to be people on it. I'm glad some memories were brought back to you. I have more videos from recent trips to the park that I will upload sometime.

[eniko1]

Thanks. My dad built a house nearby and we spent summers there from the sixties through the eighties. Pretty nice that someone has finally found a way to redevelop it.

[wii041]

Your welcome! It would have been amazing to see the park in its heyday! I'm too young though :(

I think the new plans for the park sound nice, and I've met one of the partners and he is a very nice guy!

[J0HN91]

ive never been in summer

[wii041]

It's very green! And warm too, but it is amazing :)

[ltd4all]

They did demolish most of the remains of the park...The only things spared was "The Bug" ride (one of only THREE that remain in the United States) and the Ferris Wheel..From what I understand, the new owners plan to either restore those two into either fully operational rides, or some sort of "monument" to the land's history..I visited the property after the demolition, and the only things left untouched, aside from the pier was The Bug, and the Ferris Wheel...Leading me to believe it to be true

[wii041]

Yes there is an overwhelming amount of history! This trip was in August 2008. As far as I know it is still fairly easy to get into... you just have to walk through a hole in the fence. I hear there is construction equipment nearby, so you may not have long before it's gone :(

[shandirocks]

very cool. lots of history there. When did you take this trip? is it easy to go in there now?

[Chong199]

my great grandfather died on this pier ... him and my grandfather rented boats out at the park..