I went to Geauga Lake once in 1979 and had a blast. But what I love about this video is in how just six years from the exit of the last patron, how fast nature moves back in to reclaim its lost territory. Man is a delusional species of animal. We truly believe that the things we build and the impact we make on this earth will last forever -- but it won't. The day will come when not only the last remnants of this amusement park will be gone, but all the people who visited it will be dead, and this video will be gone too.
This is terribly sad. In Medina County, OH, you can find the ruins of Chippewa Lake Park. My mom used to tell me about how wonderful it was when she was younger. Now, the place where I spent my youth has gone the same way.
This place WAS my complete childhood. Season passes every summer. It was a great deal for the middle class people who didn't have enough money to pay for cedar point or the drive to sandusky...it was a theme park, a water park, and a seaworld all in one...and it had been around for such a long time...such a shame it closed down
I still take my kids to the water park in the summer but it's really sad to look across the lake and see the roller coasters falling apart. Had some great times there. They will never know what I'm talking about. :(
This is a sad, sad video.... To think of all the good times I had there growing up... all the laughter and joy everywhere throughout the park whenever you were there... Raging Wolf Bobs was the first coaster I ever road in my life.... to see it sitting there in ruin brings a tear to my eye. The double loop, vilain, etc etc.... great rides, great memories. Sad to see it in such poor shape. Amazing how fast mother nature reclaims what is hers after we leave.
NOT THE TEXAS TWISTER!!!!! This makes me so freaking sad...I feel like how I felt when that scene in Titanic came on. The one where the camera is going around the wrecked ship and then it fades into the past and shows people walking around and enjoying theme selves...here comes the water works...
I went there every year in the mid 40"s and loved it. Had a great fun house, a poor dark ride, and..a great walk thru fun house in the dark, spooky as hell.
I used to love all the old sixties tunes they would play by the water park area. "I like bread and butter, I like toast and jam...!" I loved everything about this place. So sad to see what has become of it.
That's one of my favorite memories too, exactly...right between the water park and games the music is forever stuck in my head. I can blink and be there
I wonder what happened to the pirate ship attraction for kids to play on that was in front of the pirate ride. I went here all through the 70's and one of our favorite things to do was ride the skiing chair ride. When it turned around we would hop off the chair and hop on the next abandoned chair. Lotsof fun here.
This is really sad. I have been there countless times as a kid. As soon as the summer would hit. We would all go to six flags. Childhood memories crushed.
I grew up going to Sea World every year, but only went to Geauga Lake once, in 1996. It was actually the last family trip we took before my dad died. Sadly, my film got messed up when being processed and I never got to see the pictures from that trip. I live closer to Cedar Point (most likely the reason we only went to Geauga once), but this is still sad to see...I remember being over at Sea World watching the ski show and looking across the water at the roller coasters...the whole area was so alive then.
I remember going to this place once in the late 70's as an alternative to Cedar Point, or King's Island, both of which our group always went to...Nice park then...Featured the Double Loop and Corkscrew coasters...Sad as to what has become of it now...
I agree with the others on how sad it is the shut down of Geauga lake. I have happy memories of this amusement park myself. I do often wish it could be brought back or for another amusement park to be put in.
Crazy stuff. Like many others it seems, it was the place of company picnics every summer. Not to forget Sea World too! I'll always remember Geauga Lake for being my first roller coaster... The Big Dipper.
We went to Geauga Lake every summer in the 70's. It was closer than Cedar Point for our family. We had family friends that lived very close to the park and we always went all together. I have very fond memories of riding on the Corkscrew.
Breaks my heart seeing this like that! Went there from childhood to even adulthood when I had my daughter! Idora Park was another one, but much smaller! Many awesome memories, and of Sea World
Sad; gone the way of Idora Park in Youngstown, and Rock Springs Park in Chester, WV (across from East Liverpool). When my wife and I were just going together, we'd make the 1 1/2 to 2 hour drive up there at least once a summer. On what proved to be our last trip, we got to see the Little River Band perform on their comeback tour. My parents took me when I was just a kid. The then-new Double Loop was my very first roller coaster!
when did they close this down? i dont like rollercoasters but i use to go there alot and my grandma lived right by it. i thought it turned to 6 flags and stayed running? is it easy to go there and take pics or does the city give you a hard time?
im 25 I feel your pain .. I just wish there were more pix we tood ya know . makes me hate myself for not saving my shirts and other trinkets my parents bought me as a kid
Yeah I remember I had one shirt I used to wear there all he time and it smelled of colorine or something and I remember keeping it once we stopped going when I was little because I wanted to remember.
Geauga Lake was really great park! My family and I goes there once a while in summer, then in 1988 my senior class visited the park during my senior year and had a great time, then once last time, I took a friend there in the 1990's and that was the last visit. I never forget it. It was so sad to see this. I never had the chance to visit "sixth flag" I am so glad that Cedar Point is still alive and growing. I never forget that park, period!
I remember going here and I got on the ROTOR early that day and we didn't leave till 8 at night. I will never get on anything similar to that ride again. Still sad to see it go.
Great Job! I used to live a few streets away from here, from my backyard I'd hear the clicking of the coaster then silence..wait for it,wait for it screams as they decend down from the top ,also we;d hear the ork ork ork of the seals over at Sea World. Such a shame these places just sit and rot.Just like rolling acres is left to rot..It makes no sense.
My husband proposed to me here- right in the middle of the lake (on the bridge that they'd built to span the gap to the waterpark side that was once Sea World). I'll never forget Cedar Point, my favorite place to be in all of my childhood.
I grew up coming to this park every summer from the Pittsburgh area. When my siblings and I got older, our parents stopped bringing us. A few days ago I was wondering if this this park, and Sea World, were still around...I came upon this. How incredibly sad....
First, we had to say our final goodbyes Conneaut Lake Park (which was bad enough) along with the much loved Beach Club being burnt down. But the story behind Geauga Lake is especially sad because there was no heads up on their closing. No last rides, no farewells. That is where I first conquered my fear of roller coasters, back in elementary school. And where I always begged my parents to take me for my birthday. So this story is very sad. The only amusement park attractions left that I hold near and dear to me are Cedar Point and Waldameer. And it's depressing to think that it's only a matter of time before they follow down the same path...
im glad to say i doubt cedar point will ever close down. it has way to many tourist and rollercoaster fanatic attractions, and is literally the worlds # 1 amusement park ever. glad to say im from cleveland only an hour and a half from it!
Lauren Smith Geauga lake was a great place and always will be held in many hearts as such but cedar point will probably never close down way to people come far and wide to see it and they are always in the top ten of best amusement parks . i see where you are coming from though and i hold memories close from geauga lake
Awww I miss this place so much,I breaks my heart to see this place shut down forever. I remember like it was yesterday when me and my 4th grade class took a field trip there💔😔😞😩😫😖😢😭😭😭😪
Terrific video you have, I have very good memories of this place, this is kind of a travesty to see what happened to this park. I remember the transition into six flags, that was incredible! I also would like to know who sings the song in this video, feeling it, digging that s*** well. Once again excellent video.
I'm happy to say, I got to visit Geauga Lake about 10 years ago and I had a really great time. I heard the Cedarfair corporation bought the park from the 6 flags company and They purposely closed the park down so there would be no competition with Cedar Point. What a terrible thing to do.
I loved this place when I was younger, we would always go to it when it was seaworld, and then it changed to six flags, then to just a water park with the park half opened to just closed. I loved this place and still do.
mershbythelbs If they 24/7 security, how did the place get this trashed? You can see scrapers have already been inside removing wiring and plumbing, not to mention the usual vandals. Their security must spend most of their time asleep. I was born and raised in Cleveland and now live in a relatively small town in Alabama. We've had buildings that have been vacant for years and they don't even have a broken window. What we see happening in places like Cleveland and Detroit is not normal. It's a combination of thugs with no fear and police and security that apparently live in fear. I was a peace officer for 27 years. Put me in their with a shotgun and enough less than lethal rounds and I can guarantee you no one else would get in there.
Sar Jim Aurora isn't a trashy ghetto shithole like cleveland is now.. People aren't stripping abandoned houses here, let alone the park. And of course you would shoot innocent people with a shotgun for exploring an abandoned park. Good logic "peace" officer. Your a stereotypical trigger happy cop from the sounds of it.. The police state of america, land of the fee, home of the slave...
It is crazy how quickly things decay (other than the obvious demolition Cedar Fair did). Five years without upkeep and the place looks like it has been abandoned for 20.
My dads company had the company picinics there every year. I remember lots of summers there. I almost drowned in the wave pool when I was 5...still have other memories that are good tho. We quit going when they stopped letting people bring food in from outside
Wow, seeing that from a neat amusement park where the whole family enjoyed to this... It so depressing to see. It's like seeing Knott's Berry Farm looking like this, which is still open in Anaheim, California and really similar to Geauga Lake Theme Park.
Did the photographer get permission to go in and take photos? I was able to do photography at a different abandoned amusement park, but was only able to get in because a friends dad was part of the planning crew for the new thing being put up there. I'd love to go in and take some photos of Geauga Lake, but if there is a way to do it legally I'd be thrilled.
It's a shame this is gone. My family used to go here maybe every month in the summer or more because it was close to us. I remember walking across the boardwalk and riding like a Pepsi plunge ride and I didn't like it because I was forced to sit in the front because I was the smallest!
I got 7 stitches in my forehead due to the Wave!!! I remember crusin' along on my raft and I put the front down because it was coming to the break point where the wall widened. There was some guy standing there and would not move. I ended up crashing into him. The cleared the whole pool because I was bleeding heavy and I got some in the water. The medic called the squad. Off I went to St. Luke's Emergency and was stitched up. The park said here are some free passes and we looked at them funny. We had Season Passes for YEARS!!! The next week they had the tubes and all the rafts were gone. We also had passes to Sea World. I was very, very, very blessed as a kid living in Cleveland because I had passes to both parks. I grew up in those parks. I was very sad when they shut down.
Heather Chakan It's just kind of sad to see this place I used to go to as a kid, completely gone. It's a weird kind of sadness to see these structures that were once filled with laughing people, now completely abandoned and no longer existing in history. I guess the music to this video might've contributed a bit lol.
Aside from the inside shots it looks like Cedar Point would in the offseason. Why the hell would you take pictures in the winter? If you took them during the Summer (the season when it was open) it would have a better effect on how abandoned it really looks.
I rememebr as a kid when u were at sea world u would look across and want to be at geauga lake or vice versa then when I turned 21 they made one big park and now sadly my kiddos wont get to go there. I miss it its a sad sad shame.
the whole reason this happened is because cedar fair hated the competition they knew loyal fans of the park would never abandon it to go cedar point, or kings island, so they bought the park with the hidden intention of closing it down at the first opportunity they got so that they would no longer be in the shadow of something so iconic. they may have closed the park they think they have won but one thing that will never end is the memories each one of us had there. they did what was best for there business they never cared about what the people who grew up around Geauga Lake wanted because whether we like it or not in this world money talks.
They clossed it due to the fact they made no money off of it. Cedar Fair owns half of Kennywood and its still open. They ended up making a water park there instead
Six flags ruin the parks reputation, every year six flags owned the park had drastic drop off of customers which forced them to sell. Cedar Fairs tried to keep it open but the deterioration of the park plus only a small increase of customers coming back forced them to close for good. Six flags then decided to go to New Jersey as their new flagship park because of no competition.
Sickening.....great times there....."The Rotor !!!!"....first ride as a kid that let me feel the power of centrifugal force as the floor dropped from your feet....
And anyone who went to the original Geauga Lake before it became Six Flags and rode the Rotor..knows about the creepy "Rotor Man" who wore his homemade Rotor Man hat and t-shirt. He bought a season pass and stayed on the Rotor from the time gates opened till the park closed..
music was a good fit but a little loud.....other than that it was outstanding!!! I think abandoned amusement parks are always interesting...very good!!
Isn't it interesting that for 100 years or so when it was family owned it made enough money to keep everyone employed, but as soon as big business moved in, it no longer made enough money to suit the millionaires that ran those companies. very sad.
I think this was the first amusement park I ever attended. It breaks my heart to see it go to pot like that. I even went there when they turned it into a seven flags and it was still a great park. How could they just let it go!
Many memories with East Ohio gas company picnics. M kids never got to experience the Big Dipper. It'so sad to look at the abandoned Big Dipper from across the lake at Wild Water Kingdom, SMH.
This park was a getaway for so many people i remember my best friend it was her 8th birthday and her mom told me to tell her we were going to the lake i was so excited because really we were taking her to geauga lake in the car i couldnt hold it in anymore and her mom said tell her she screamed so loud lol then went three summers in row the summer of 07 with my high school didnt know that september there would be nomore Geauga lake ever again this video and Cedar Fair closing one of the best amusement parks is sad but remember the good times you had
I went there every day after school. I would take the Aurora Shores school bus with my friend and walk from there. It was the best those two or so years six flags owned it.
Oh my what happened? This place used to be so nice! It's so sad to see what has happend to it. It only took 7 years for Mother Nature to do her job it makes me so sad to se what it has become. Cedar Faif should put it back!
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I went to Geauga Lake once in 1979 and had a blast. But what I love about this video is in how just six years from the exit of the last patron, how fast nature moves back in to reclaim its lost territory. Man is a delusional species of animal. We truly believe that the things we build and the impact we make on this earth will last forever -- but it won't. The day will come when not only the last remnants of this amusement park will be gone, but all the people who visited it will be dead, and this video will be gone too.
This is terribly sad. In Medina County, OH, you can find the ruins of Chippewa Lake Park. My mom used to tell me about how wonderful it was when she was younger. Now, the place where I spent my youth has gone the same way.
This place WAS my complete childhood. Season passes every summer. It was a great deal for the middle class people who didn't have enough money to pay for cedar point or the drive to sandusky...it was a theme park, a water park, and a seaworld all in one...and it had been around for such a long time...such a shame it closed down
I still take my kids to the water park in the summer but it's really sad to look across the lake and see the roller coasters falling apart. Had some great times there. They will never know what I'm talking about. :(
philippesadventures, I would recommend Waldameer Water World, Pioneer Lake (Geauga County), or Cedar Point!
This is a sad, sad video.... To think of all the good times I had there growing up... all the laughter and joy everywhere throughout the park whenever you were there... Raging Wolf Bobs was the first coaster I ever road in my life.... to see it sitting there in ruin brings a tear to my eye. The double loop, vilain, etc etc.... great rides, great memories. Sad to see it in such poor shape. Amazing how fast mother nature reclaims what is hers after we leave.
NOT THE TEXAS TWISTER!!!!! This makes me so freaking sad...I feel like how I felt when that scene in Titanic came on. The one where the camera is going around the wrecked ship and then it fades into the past and shows people walking around and enjoying theme selves...here comes the water works...
I went there every year in the mid 40"s and loved it.
Had a great fun house, a poor dark ride, and..a great walk thru fun house in the dark, spooky as hell.
thank you so much for sharing your beautiful video. It makes me cry every time I watch it.
I miss the good times :(
My first job back in the summer of 1995. I have a lot of fond memories of that place.
ReverendKyle78 Oh, and fuck you Cedar Fair!
I used to love all the old sixties tunes they would play by the water park area. "I like bread and butter, I like toast and jam...!"
I loved everything about this place. So sad to see what has become of it.
That's one of my favorite memories too, exactly...right between the water park and games the music is forever stuck in my head. I can blink and be there
I wonder what happened to the pirate ship attraction for kids to play on that was in front of the pirate ride. I went here all through the 70's and one of our favorite things to do was ride the skiing chair ride. When it turned around we would hop off the chair and hop on the next abandoned chair. Lotsof fun here.
This is really sad. I have been there countless times as a kid. As soon as the summer would hit. We would all go to six flags. Childhood memories crushed.
I grew up going to Sea World every year, but only went to Geauga Lake once, in 1996. It was actually the last family trip we took before my dad died. Sadly, my film got messed up when being processed and I never got to see the pictures from that trip. I live closer to Cedar Point (most likely the reason we only went to Geauga once), but this is still sad to see...I remember being over at Sea World watching the ski show and looking across the water at the roller coasters...the whole area was so alive then.
I remember going to this place once in the late 70's as an alternative to Cedar Point, or King's Island, both of which our group always went to...Nice park then...Featured the Double Loop and Corkscrew coasters...Sad as to what has become of it now...
This is seriously depressing because I loved this park so much!
It breaks my heart. A place I loved so much. All that noise and excitement, gone and left to the dust.
Went there with my folks back in 1987. Rode the coasters and had a good time. Not bad for a small park. I also went to Sea World across the lake.
I agree with the others on how sad it is the shut down of Geauga lake. I have happy memories of this amusement park myself. I do often wish it could be brought back or for another amusement park to be put in.
That's what happens when people would rather go to Cedar point.
Crazy stuff. Like many others it seems, it was the place of company picnics every summer. Not to forget Sea World too! I'll always remember Geauga Lake for being my first roller coaster... The Big Dipper.
My first upsidedown roller coaster was the corkscrew .. the next year it got tore down .. I believe the last ride I rode there was the Villan
We went to Geauga Lake every summer in the 70's. It was closer than Cedar Point for our family. We had family friends that lived very close to the park and we always went all together. I have very fond memories of riding on the Corkscrew.
Breaks my heart seeing this like that! Went there from childhood to even adulthood when I had my daughter! Idora Park was another one, but much smaller! Many awesome memories, and of Sea World
My family and all cherish the memories made and shared at Geauga Lake. It still seems impossible that it's gone.
Sad; gone the way of Idora Park in Youngstown, and Rock Springs Park in Chester, WV (across from East Liverpool).
When my wife and I were just going together, we'd make the 1 1/2 to 2 hour drive up there at least once a summer. On what proved to be our last trip, we got to see the Little River Band perform on their comeback tour.
My parents took me when I was just a kid. The then-new Double Loop was my very first roller coaster!
I went there as a kid. I loved the Raging Wolf Bobs
when did they close this down? i dont like rollercoasters but i use to go there alot and my grandma lived right by it. i thought it turned to 6 flags and stayed running? is it easy to go there and take pics or does the city give you a hard time?
So glad I was able to have my first job there working the last year they were opened 2007!! So much fun! GL!
This park was awesome. I wish they would build another park there. They do have a water park across the lake now that is really fun though.
Sad because I remember going every summer. I loved it as a little kid. It's sad that I'm 20 now and all I can have of this place is memories.
im 25 I feel your pain .. I just wish there were more pix we tood ya know . makes me hate myself for not saving my shirts and other trinkets my parents bought me as a kid
Yeah I remember I had one shirt I used to wear there all he time and it smelled of colorine or something and I remember keeping it once we stopped going when I was little because I wanted to remember.
Geauga Lake was really great park! My family and I goes there once a while in summer, then in 1988 my senior class visited the park during my senior year and had a great time, then once last time, I took a friend there in the 1990's and that was the last visit. I never forget it. It was so sad to see this. I never had the chance to visit "sixth flag" I am so glad that Cedar Point is still alive and growing. I never forget that park, period!
I remember going here and I got on the ROTOR early that day and we didn't leave till 8 at night. I will never get on anything similar to that ride again. Still sad to see it go.
Great Job! I used to live a few streets away from here, from my backyard I'd hear the clicking of the coaster then silence..wait for it,wait for it screams as they decend down from the top ,also we;d hear the ork ork ork of the seals over at Sea World. Such a shame these places just sit and rot.Just like rolling acres is left to rot..It makes no sense.
My husband proposed to me here- right in the middle of the lake (on the bridge that they'd built to span the gap to the waterpark side that was once Sea World). I'll never forget Cedar Point, my favorite place to be in all of my childhood.
I grew up coming to this park every summer from the Pittsburgh area. When my siblings and I got older, our parents stopped bringing us. A few days ago I was wondering if this this park, and Sea World, were still around...I came upon this. How incredibly sad....
First, we had to say our final goodbyes Conneaut Lake Park (which was bad enough) along with the much loved Beach Club being burnt down. But the story behind Geauga Lake is especially sad because there was no heads up on their closing. No last rides, no farewells. That is where I first conquered my fear of roller coasters, back in elementary school. And where I always begged my parents to take me for my birthday. So this story is very sad. The only amusement park attractions left that I hold near and dear to me are Cedar Point and Waldameer. And it's depressing to think that it's only a matter of time before they follow down the same path...
im glad to say i doubt cedar point will ever close down. it has way to many tourist and rollercoaster fanatic attractions, and is literally the worlds # 1 amusement park ever. glad to say im from cleveland only an hour and a half from it!
Lauren Smith Geauga lake was a great place and always will be held in many hearts as such but cedar point will probably never close down way to people come far and wide to see it and they are always in the top ten of best amusement parks . i see where you are coming from though and i hold memories close from geauga lake
Lauren, you from Western PA. Waldameer I see lasting a while. How on earth they are trying to save CLP is beyond me though.
Conneaut is still open!
Awww I miss this place so much,I breaks my heart to see this place shut down forever. I remember like it was yesterday when me and my 4th grade class took a field trip there💔😔😞😩😫😖😢😭😭😭😪
I never got to go and I lived 40 mins away from it ;(
Awww don't feel bad. the first time I went to cedar point,I reminded me so much geauga lake and it started having flashbacks of being at geauga lake.
Do you recommend any other places near by this location that would be fun to hit up after this one?
Terrific video you have, I have very good memories of this place, this is kind of a travesty to see what happened to this park. I remember the transition into six flags, that was incredible! I also would like to know who sings the song in this video, feeling it, digging that s*** well. Once again excellent video.
What's the song playing in the background! Amazing pictures, so sad what it has become
It's in the description.
Went there every summer :O( sad to see it today. I still drive by and remember.
FlowerClown Do you know if you can get in there somehow? if you live by there
I'm happy to say, I got to visit Geauga Lake about 10 years ago and I had a really great time. I heard the Cedarfair corporation bought the park from the 6 flags company and They purposely closed the park down so there would be no competition with Cedar Point. What a terrible thing to do.
almost brings a tear to my eye. thousands of memories in that place, no they are just gone
I loved this place when I was younger, we would always go to it when it was seaworld, and then it changed to six flags, then to just a water park with the park half opened to just closed. I loved this place and still do.
Are any of these photos for sale?
How did you get in?
we went there years ago when it was sea world, awesome place! six flags ruins everything they touch.
Yeah I miss SeaWorld so sad
I hate Ceder Point, it's too big. You can't do everything in one day. At least at Geauga Lake you could.
was it easy to get in ,now that it's abandoned??
no they have security that patrol 24/7, plus the parking lot is now a police driving course
Thanks for DA info, I got a virtual tour from people pictures on flicker.com.AGAIN THANKS FOR REPLYING, TAKE CARE
mershbythelbs thanks for info,tons of cool pictures on www.flicker.com
mershbythelbs If they 24/7 security, how did the place get this trashed? You can see scrapers have already been inside removing wiring and plumbing, not to mention the usual vandals. Their security must spend most of their time asleep. I was born and raised in Cleveland and now live in a relatively small town in Alabama. We've had buildings that have been vacant for years and they don't even have a broken window. What we see happening in places like Cleveland and Detroit is not normal. It's a combination of thugs with no fear and police and security that apparently live in fear. I was a peace officer for 27 years. Put me in their with a shotgun and enough less than lethal rounds and I can guarantee you no one else would get in there.
Sar Jim Aurora isn't a trashy ghetto shithole like cleveland is now.. People aren't stripping abandoned houses here, let alone the park. And of course you would shoot innocent people with a shotgun for exploring an abandoned park. Good logic "peace" officer. Your a stereotypical trigger happy cop from the sounds of it.. The police state of america, land of the fee, home of the slave...
It is crazy how quickly things decay (other than the obvious demolition Cedar Fair did). Five years without upkeep and the place looks like it has been abandoned for 20.
I went there when i was a little kid and remember some of it but now im 13 and i will never get to go there now
Would you say the security of Geauga Lake is pretty tight? Thinking of venturing inside but I want to know how high the risk of getting caught is
+rfbritton i would also like to go there.not sure how the security is there
Security is tight!
My dads company had the company picinics there every year. I remember lots of summers there. I almost drowned in the wave pool when I was 5...still have other memories that are good tho. We quit going when they stopped letting people bring food in from outside
So sad, I could honestly cry. I spent most of my childhood & teen years at that park & Sea World. I can't believe what they did to it...
Nice video. Best regards from Poland 🇵🇱
So how easy is it to break in
I remember coming her when I was a little kid. makes me sad to see how it is now. lots of good memories there
Great work!
Wow, seeing that from a neat amusement park where the whole family enjoyed to this... It so depressing to see. It's like seeing Knott's Berry Farm looking like this, which is still open in Anaheim, California and really similar to Geauga Lake Theme Park.
where can i find this song?
+mike mixon Type in Wake Owl Gold. I liked it too at first listen.Make sure you get the remix version on RUclips.
Thank you thank you thank you
Good childhood memories of my summers in the 60s and 70s
Did the photographer get permission to go in and take photos? I was able to do photography at a different abandoned amusement park, but was only able to get in because a friends dad was part of the planning crew for the new thing being put up there. I'd love to go in and take some photos of Geauga Lake, but if there is a way to do it legally I'd be thrilled.
It's a shame this is gone. My family used to go here maybe every month in the summer or more because it was close to us. I remember walking across the boardwalk and riding like a Pepsi plunge ride and I didn't like it because I was forced to sit in the front because I was the smallest!
I used to love the Wave or whatever it was called, where this big ass tidal wave would wash over everyone in the swimming pool
that was a great part of the part that i remember as well
I got 7 stitches in my forehead due to the Wave!!! I remember crusin' along on my raft and I put the front down because it was coming to the break point where the wall widened. There was some guy standing there and would not move. I ended up crashing into him. The cleared the whole pool because I was bleeding heavy and I got some in the water. The medic called the squad. Off I went to St. Luke's Emergency and was stitched up. The park said here are some free passes and we looked at them funny. We had Season Passes for YEARS!!! The next week they had the tubes and all the rafts were gone. We also had passes to Sea World. I was very, very, very blessed as a kid living in Cleveland because I had passes to both parks. I grew up in those parks. I was very sad when they shut down.
Heather Chakan It's just kind of sad to see this place I used to go to as a kid, completely gone. It's a weird kind of sadness to see these structures that were once filled with laughing people, now completely abandoned and no longer existing in history. I guess the music to this video might've contributed a bit lol.
The Wave was a beast of a wave! There was always a sea of legs and arms flailing around in it. Great memories.
Maybe expore Idora Park in Youngstown?
Idora is just a field now.. Not to mention in a bad section of town.
I loved geauga lake, my family and I used to get season passes can go there every weekend, it's a shame that its gone
I grew up there. My heart is in a million pieces :(
Aside from the inside shots it looks like Cedar Point would in the offseason. Why the hell would you take pictures in the winter? If you took them during the Summer (the season when it was open) it would have a better effect on how abandoned it really looks.
That's crazy, i didn't even know it was closed.
Childhood memories, between rolling acres, and this I don't know which is sadder
I rememebr as a kid when u were at sea world u would look across and want to be at geauga lake or vice versa then when I turned 21 they made one big park and now sadly my kiddos wont get to go there. I miss it its a sad sad shame.
the whole reason this happened is because cedar fair hated the competition they knew loyal fans of the park would never abandon it to go cedar point, or kings island, so they bought the park with the hidden intention of closing it down at the first opportunity they got so that they would no longer be in the shadow of something so iconic. they may have closed the park they think they have won but one thing that will never end is the memories each one of us had there. they did what was best for there business they never cared about what the people who grew up around Geauga Lake wanted because whether we like it or not in this world money talks.
They clossed it due to the fact they made no money off of it. Cedar Fair owns half of Kennywood and its still open. They ended up making a water park there instead
Six flags ruin the parks reputation, every year six flags owned the park had drastic drop off of customers which forced them to sell. Cedar Fairs tried to keep it open but the deterioration of the park plus only a small increase of customers coming back forced them to close for good. Six flags then decided to go to New Jersey as their new flagship park because of no competition.
Just to state a fact Kennywood is not owned whatsoever by cedar fair!
Sickening.....great times there....."The Rotor !!!!"....first ride as a kid that let me feel the power of centrifugal force as the floor dropped from your feet....
Yesssss!
And anyone who went to the original Geauga Lake before it became Six Flags and rode the Rotor..knows about the creepy "Rotor Man" who wore his homemade Rotor Man hat and t-shirt. He bought a season pass and stayed on the Rotor from the time gates opened till the park closed..
Rob W he was in the record book at that time. Not sure if he is now or not.
Dude. I totally remember that guy! He used to hide behind the door when the ride ended! He smelled like poo
So many good memories.
Before I was born there was a xute little amusement park called idora park in Youngstown ohio. Big historical thing tons of collectors of memorabilia.
I went to There my 4th grade yr 1998/99.. so sad to see it like that
Double Loop was the ONLY coaster I have ever, and probably will ever be on.
:( many good AAA School Patrol and City of Akron employee picnics here.
music was a good fit but a little loud.....other than that it was outstanding!!! I think abandoned amusement parks are always interesting...very good!!
Bender got to disagree with you. The video is perfect in every witch way possible
Isn't it interesting that for 100 years or so when it was family owned it made enough money to keep everyone employed, but as soon as big business moved in, it no longer made enough money to suit the millionaires that ran those companies. very sad.
I remember the first time I went here in 1989, it's a shame to think it's long gone, I live in Canada, so I only went there twice.
I think this was the first amusement park I ever attended. It breaks my heart to see it go to pot like that. I even went there when they turned it into a seven flags and it was still a great park. How could they just let it go!
If they had been making a profit, I'm sure they wouldn't have let it go.
Many memories with East Ohio gas company picnics. M kids never got to experience the Big Dipper. It'so sad to look at the abandoned Big Dipper from across the lake at Wild Water Kingdom, SMH.
This park was a getaway for so many people i remember my best friend it was her 8th birthday and her mom told me to tell her we were going to the lake i was so excited because really we were taking her to geauga lake in the car i couldnt hold it in anymore and her mom said tell her she screamed so loud lol then went three summers in row the summer of 07 with my high school didnt know that september there would be nomore Geauga lake ever again this video and Cedar Fair closing one of the best amusement parks is sad but remember the good times you had
I literally get sick to my stomach watching this :(
did you sneak in?
crazy how quick things decay when they were not being maintained it looks like its been closed 25 years ago not 9 years ago
i miss geauga lake amusement park that was my place to go every summer :( rip geauga lake :(
I can hear the remix of Vailskibum94's intro in the background...
When I was younger, I went there...
I remember absolutely nothing because I had slipped and gotten knocked out..
nice PICTURES...
Alright I'm bringing this back who is with me?
Brett Hruska ME DEFINETLY I NEVER BEEN THERE
I never been there either...
abandoned just like sea world across the lake, the roller coaster they bought from idora park the only ride to servive the fire.
so very sad ....lots of memories there
because cedar point is ALSO IN OHIO
Still a lot of good wood and brick to be salvaged.. Such a same
I went there every day after school. I would take the Aurora Shores school bus with my friend and walk from there. It was the best those two or so years six flags owned it.
Great vid
yeahriight57 hell yeah.
...who plowed the snow?
+Frog Snack the sun
+Jason Matt that was amazing.
it was winter when this taking
Oh my what happened? This place used to be so nice! It's so sad to see what has happend to it. It only took 7 years for Mother Nature to do her job it makes me so sad to se what it has become. Cedar Faif should put it back!
Now Wild Water Kingdom will have the same fate...
I cant believe how run down it looks. Its only been a couple years