The Official Geauga Lake Gets Bulldozed Megathread

[Bolliger&MabillardCockroach and rat free since 2002!]

Moment of silence as a lone tear sheds down my face.

[NASA GuyI know quite a lot about Donkeys!]

I have only gone to Geauga Lake once. On what is most probably the most memorable days of my life.

If only I could go back in time and visit just once more, god I hate Cedar Fair for that. (But CF is also building me a B&M Hyper, so I'm good!)

[pianojohnWhat I do and who I am]

Ahh....one of my childhood coasters is gone. I remember the year they opened The Corkscrew and the big ad slogan that year was "Double Loop and Corkscrew too!" This was big news back in 1978! I will have to look for some of the OLD pics I have of the park from the late 70's.

It is such a shame that Cedar Fair decided to just close the whole place down. I could envision the park turning into a quaint Lake Compounce type of park, but that will never be.

Here's hoping against hope that the Big Dipper can be saved.

[jamesdillamanFlight of James: Ride of Steel the Revenge]

Corkscrew was my first upside-down coaster, and Double Loop was my second (and my first looping coaster). Now I feel old that they're both gone.

-James Dillaman

[Force 310I'm a know-it-all about donkeys!]

Here's hoping against hope that the Big Dipper can be saved.

Apparently, it's going to be rebuilt, but it won't be operating.

Double Loop was my first coaster with inversions as well. I just became interested in riding coasters last year, and right after the regular operating season was over, CF closed the park down without warning. So I don't have that many memories attached to the park (besides some earlier memories of Sea World), but I still wish it hadn't been closed down.

[robbalveySite Admin]

It's kind of sad to think that this park was in better hands with Six Flags. And I wonder if with today's new management they would have tried to salvage it had they stilled own it.

IMO, what the park was when it was "Six Flags Worlds of Adventure" is exactly what the company seemed to want in their park profile.

Oh, well....

Everyone thought I was crazy when I said it, but the day it was announced that Cedar Fair bought the park I knew this would be the fate of the park...I just knew it!

--Robb

[gkI think Intamin should make a donkey!]

I never got a chance to visit GL - I remember going to Sea World of Ohio as a kid, though, and we were watching some water ski show on the lake, and I was watching the trains run on double loop across the water and wishing I was over there instead!

[BeemerBoyWDW Monorail Fanatic]

You mean ACE didn't try to salvage this for the museum?

[raptor2011I know quite a lot about Donkeys!]

I think that the park was doomed after 2000. I think Six Flags was trying to make Geauga Lake the premier amusement park in northern Ohio. Before 2000 I think that Six Flags did believe that they could beat out Cedar Point when they added all of the rides. Cedar Point then added Millenium, Wicked Twister, Top Thrill Dragster and I think people would just rather go to Cedar Point for those then Geauga Lake. It also didn't help after 2001 Geauga Lake didn't get any landmark attraction. My wish was that Geauga Lake was still a nice family fun park when owned by Fun Times I think. Now all of the rides are getting demolished

[THE ONEI think Intamin should make a donkey!]

It's kind of sad to think that this park was in better hands with Six Flags. And I wonder if with today's new management they would have tried to salvage it had they stilled own it.

IMO, what the park was when it was "Six Flags Worlds of Adventure" is exactly what the company seemed to want in their park profile.

Oh, well....

Everyone thought I was crazy when I said it, but the day it was announced that Cedar Fair bought the park I knew this would be the fate of the park...I just knew it!

--Robb

I can't agree more Robb, Six Flags was going in the right direction with the park, and yes I can only think with the new management that park would have been better in hands with SF than Cedar Fair.

We had family that lived in Aurora Ohio so my family would go to Aurora just about every year and we would visit Geauga lake and Cedar Point. We started going to both park's every year from 78- 98 in till our family moved.
When It became SF I started going back. I know i visited the park each year from 2000-2003 through the hole SF era. After CF bought the park I did not start going back in till 2006 when the rumors started popping up that they were going to take out rides and passably close the park.

I don't remember much of GL in till the mid 80s, ( I was to young then) I really liked GL allot even through the SF era the park was nice and clean until CF bought it. The park was better when it was Six Flags Worlds of Adventure, and if SF would still have it today with all the changes that they have made to the rest of the parks in the chain i can only imagine what they would have dome with SFWOA.

Just want to say is that i used to be a huge Cedar Point fan in till last September when the closed GL, I think they handled this situation poorly.

Anyway sorry for rambling on and on about my life history with GL, I just wish I had more pictures of this park . I loved that park back in the day.

And i will miss it very much our family had lot's of memories their.