Cedar Point "America's Roller Coast" Trip Report

Hey guys
Sorry for not much updates lately.
Anyways I spent the weekend of May 31,and June 1st at Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio
Perfect weather on both days, Heavy crowds on the 31st, Sunday the first, the park was nearly dead, with all most everything a walk on, Yay
Even better since I was staying with friends in an RV at the Lighthouse Point Campground right behind the Mean Streak Wooden Roller Coaster, we all got in an hour early with other resort guests.
Oh yeah, I should mention that i have ridden all but 4 of the roller coasters, so that means I rode about 11 out of 16:

1. Blue Streak, (A classic John Allen designed wooden  Out and Back coaster & built by Philadelphia Toboggan Company for the 1964 season  , the oldest coaster at the park, at 50 years old)
2. Cedar Creek Mine Ride 
3. Corkscrew ( Built by Arrow Dynamics, was the one of the first, if not the original coaster to flip riders head over heels 3 times in its track, and the first corkscrew to be built on a park midway) 
4. Gatekeeper ( Built by Bolliger & Mabillard, GateKeeper is the tallest, fastest and longest wing roller coaster in the world!
   Fly through acrobatic turns and rolls as you coast up and over the park's main entrance. GateKeeper's trains then "thread" riders through two keyholes - built into giant towers that now provide a stunning first impression as you enter the park.) Cedar Point had a brilliant idea to revitalize the aging front gate while adding a stunning Winged coaster to their arsenal of insane coasters, even better, two giant Barrel Rolls threaded through two giant Key Holes on massive towers framing the front entrance
5. Gemini ( a steel tubular tracked Racer built on a wooden frame)
6. Iron Dragon ( one of Arrow's original suspended coasters that paved the way for the world renowned Inverted coasters) I rode her 4 times
7. Magnum XL 200 ( The first coaster to go beyond 200 feet in height, paving the way for all of today's modern 300 foot behemoths) 
8. Maverick ( a launched coaster from Intamin, like no other with a 95 degree drop, and multiple corkscrews throughout it's scenic twisting path next to Lake Erie)
9. Mean Streak ( A huge wooden coaster situated next to the Lighthouse point campground, and built with 1.7 Million Board feet of Southern Yellow Pine)
10. Millennium Force ( This coaster is so huge at 310 feet,  that they had to coin the term of a "Giga Coaster" which is any coaster  above 300 feet in height, and an 80 degree 300 foot drop to start this ride)
11. Raptor ( A B&M Inverted coaster, as the name implies, on this wild ride your snatched up by a bird of prey with 6 inversions, all the while your hanging underneath the track) 

I did not ride the Top Thrill Dragster, the first coaster to go beyond 400 feet, and coining the term of a Strata Coaster, at 428 feet,  It's the world's second Tallest freestanding coaster with a 128 MPH launch

The wicked Twister, an inverted Impulse coaster,  or Mantis, the stand Up looping coaster, or the two kiddie coasters.

I also rode all but 3 of the park's flat rides : MaxxAir( Huss Giant Frisbee 145 feet tall) the screaming swing, or the Power Tower
I did not ride any of the River rapids, or the two log flumes either, Did not do anything from the challenge park or soak city water park 

Now here are some pictures:

Top Thrill Dragster

 Eyerly Monster 

Larson Lake Erie Eagles Flying Scooter

 Giant snoopy bounce house

Riding the Maverick

 Millennium Force's Lift

Mantis

Corkscrew, and Power Tower

Corkscrew

 Power Tower

Mantis towering over the Iron Dragon

Dragster dwarfing the midway

Dragster

 Tree's in front of dragster

Many different trees

Schwarzkopf Enterprise in front of the Gemini

Enterprise

Sky Ride

Raptor from a distance

Cedar Downs

Gatekeeper from afar

Gatekeeper

Midway 4 abreast Carousel from the 40's. oldest original ride at the park

Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper

Raptor

Beautiful Shot of the B&M Raptor

 Cedar Downs AKA the "Great American Racing Derby, dates from the 20's and moved from Euclid beach in Cleveland to Cedar point in 1964

Gatekeeper and the MaxxAir Huss frisbee

Giant wheel, I believe this is a Schwarzkopf 150 foot wheel

MaxxAir

Mondial Windseeker

Gatekeeper as seen from the wheel's queuing line

Now here's a bunch of shots taken from high above Cedar Point on the Giant wheel, Enjoy them

Huss Troika

Gatekeeper

Troika

More Gatekeeper 

Even more Gatekeeper

Windseeker, 301 feet in height, one hell of a view from up there

Classic Ground mount Eli Bridge Scrambler, they dont build em like they used to

Mack Matterhorn

Corkscrew framing the Mantis and Iron dragon coasters

Hotel Breaker's Lobby

Rotunda of the Breakers

Mantis

Mack Super Himalaya 

Corkscrew, built over the midway, very picturesque 

More  corkscrew

Mack Matterhorn

Matterhorn

Sky ride

Sky ride

Gatekeeper threading the final Keyhole element

More Gatekeeper

Beautiful front entrance with gatekeeper framing the park

Ocean Motion, oh how I hate these Huss pirates

Even more Gatekeeper

Ocean Motion

Scrambler awesomeness

Matterhorn ready for the night shift

Gemini

Beautiful shot of the Monster and Lake Erie Eagles on the Gemini Midway, with Gemini looming behind 

Skyscraper at Challenge Park

Magnum and Sky Scraper

 Until next time, enjoy this report from Cedar Point

For more pictures and Videos, please check out my Cedar Point album on Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/66288661@N04/sets/72157645189394176/