- Local News

via Wkyc: – It’s alive! Steel Vengeance has welcomed its first riders at Cedar Point — and video of the entire roller coaster experience has finally been unleashed! In the new footage, Cedar Point’s Vice President / General Manager, Jason McClure, climbs aboard Steel Vengeance with park spokesperson Tony Clark. Although the roller coaster flips riders upside […]

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via Wkyc: Things are getting wild at Cedar Point. New for the 2018 season is “Steel Vengeance,” an all-new roller coaster that breaks a total of 10 world records. It will be the first wood-steel hybrid coaster in the world to reach heights higher than 200 feet. Standing at 205 feet tall, riders will plummet […]

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Henry Sievers has loved roller coasters all his life. “When I was young — 9-10 years old — Eldridge Park (in New York) had a wooden roller coaster I rode constantly.” His favorite is Cedar Point’s Mean Streak. “Nice view of the park on both sides. Just, the noise and stuff it makes. … I […]

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A Cedar Point guest died after he was struck by the Raptor roller coaster around 5 p.m. Thursday. Police said the man, identified as 45-year-old James A. Young, of East Canton, Ohio, jumped the fence to enter a restricted area near the roller coaster to look for a lost cell phone. His friends told police […]

- CLE

It’s the end of the run for Cedar Point’s 18-year-old Mantis roller coaster. The Sandusky amusement park says the last rides will take place this weekend, at 8:15 p.m. Sunday. Cedar Point has a list of special closing day activities. For more information click here! The stand-up coaster will be reconfigured to create a new […]

- CLE

    Will LeBron James really get a roller coaster named for him now that he’s coming back to Cleveland? Ohio’s Cedar Point amusement park says to stay tuned. Earlier this week, the park promised to rename one of its 17 roller coasters “King James” if the four-time NBA MVP returned home to play for […]

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  Cedar Point has jumped on the bandwagon in trying to persuade LeBron James to return to Cleveland. On Wednesday, @cedarpoint tweeted that it would rename one of its roller coasters after LeBron James. WKYC thinks the Raptor would be appropriate. Why? Back in August 2010, LeBron was seen at Cedar Point on the Raptor. […]

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  Its twisted body is rising from the ground. Construction has been underway on the record-setting Banshee roller coaster at Kings Island for nearly three full months. Since the first pieces of track arrived at the Cincinnati-area scream park on Aug. 16, crews have already installed the ride’s lift hill, first drop and two loops. […]

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  Get ready for new thrills at Cedar Point come next summer. The amusement park announced Tuesday the addition of two new rides to the Gemini Midway, as well as other changes and renovations. Pipe Scream will be a “Disk’O Coaster,” billed as “the best of a roller coaster and a flat ride in one.” […]