Geauga Lake
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Geauga Lake & Wildwater Kingdom is an amusement park located in Aurora, Ohio originally founded in 1887. In 2000, Six Flags purchased the park from Funtime and rebranded the park to become Six Flags Ohio. A year later they purchased the adjacent SeaWorld of Ohio and merged the two to form Six Flags Worlds of Adventure. On March 10, 2004, Six Flags sold the park to Cedar Fair, who returned it to its original name. In 2005, Cedar Fair announced the conversion of the south side to a water park and the park changed names once more to become Geauga Lake & Wildwater Kingdom.
For a detailed history of the park from 1887 to the present, see The History of Geauga Lake (http://www.geaugalake.com/public/transition/index.cfm) at the park's official site.
Geauga Lake is also the name of the lake that the amusement park lies along, which straddles Portage and Geauga counties in the towns of Aurora and Bainbridge Township.
Rollercoasters
- Beaver Land Mine Ride - A Zierer kiddie coaster.
- Big Dipper - A John A. Miller wooden coaster built in 1926.
- Dominator - (formerly Batman: Knight Flight)A Bolliger & Mabillard floorless coaster.(currently the world's longest floorless coaster)
- Double Loop - An Arrow Dynamics double looping coaster.
- Head Spin (formerly Mind Eraser) - A Vekoma "boomerang" type roller coaster.
- Raging Wolf Bobs - A summers/Dinn wooden coaster.
- Steel Venom (formerly Superman: Ultimate Escape)- An Intamin AG impulse coaster.
- Thunderhawk (formerly Serial Thriller)- A Vekoma inverted coaster.
- Villain - A wooden coaster build by Custom Coasters International.
- X-Flight - A Vekoma 2nd Generation Flying Dutchman coaster.
2005 Additions
20 acre (80,000 m²) Wildwater Kingdom Water Park located on the former site of SeaWorld of Ohio. The expansion will include a ProSlide Tornado slide, Children's Water Playground, an Action River, and the relocation of Hurricane Mountain. In addition, Raging Wolf Bobs will be retracked, the Starfish and Thriller Bees brought back, and new picninc pavilions built on the former site of Hook's Lagoon. The Peanuts characters will be introduced and two new movies will be played in the Geauga Lake Motion Simulator and 4-D Theatre: Dino Island II and Robots of Mars. The biggest change for 2005 may be the admission price which has been dropped 10 dollars to $24.95. Raging Wolf Bobs will be receiving a new Gerstlauer train purchased from Holiday World. Another new addition to the park will be the "Picnic by the Lake" buffet which will take place daily in the newly moved lakeside picnic pavilions.
External links
- http://www.geaugalake.com/ (Official Site).
- http://www.geaugalaketoday.com/ (Fan Site).
- http://www.geaugaguide.com/ (Fan Site).