Cedar Point, Amusement park in Sandusky, United States
Cedar Point is a 364-acre amusement park on a Lake Erie peninsula in Sandusky, Ohio, with 18 roller coasters. Its entrance sign spells "larPoint" in rounded green letters with dark blue outlines, set before four cylindrical smokestacks banded in dark blue, light blue and red. A steel coaster arch with blue rails and a white spine crosses a paved walkway.
The park opened in 1870 as a public bathing beach with a small bathhouse, transforming into a full entertainment site by the late 1800s. The first roller coasters appeared in the 1890s, shifting the former beach resort into a center for mechanical thrill rides.
The park's name comes from the cedar trees that once covered the peninsula, and its nickname is "America's Roller Coast". Since 1997 it has held HalloWeekends each autumn, when weekend-only operation continues through Halloween with seasonal attractions. The park has won the Golden Ticket Award for Best Amusement Park in the World sixteen consecutive times, from 1997 to 2013.
The park opens from early May through Labor Day, with extended weekend hours during September and October for seasonal Halloween events. Summer weekends tend to draw the largest crowds, so arriving early helps avoid the longest waits at popular rides.
Cedar Point is the only park in the world with five roller coasters over 200 feet (61 m) tall: Magnum XL-200, Millennium Force, Valravn, Steel Vengeance and Top Thrill 2. It also has coasters in all four height classifications. Blue Streak, the oldest coaster still running here, dates from 1964.
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