Geauga Lake Referance on Screamscape

BrownStreak · March 29, 2007

I went onto Screamscape the other day just to see if there were any odd or new stroies there and found a post re: Geauga Lake's removal of two of their coasters and the fact that it would be 2008 or 2009 before they get anything new and only if attendenece picks up...

My question is this: How are they going to raise attendence by removing stuff and not putting anything new in? They say that they want to be a "family park," whatever that means. I mean come on, we already have Kiddieland here in the Cleveland area and that is a lot cheaper for families with children than Gaga Lake is! At the rate they are going with removing rides and only building water park attractions for years the park is going to end up like Wyandott Lake.

As a side note- isn't it interesting that the the original Funtime Parks: Darien Lake, Geauga Lake, and Wyandott Lake, which were purchased by Premier in the 80's or 90's are now owned by three different companies- none of which being the company that Premier became in 1997 when they purchased the 6 Flags Parks- in fact they have since sold off almost all of the parks to a point where they are left with just the original 6 flags parks plus a tiny number of the parks they started with.

Anyways- there are so many things that they could do with Gaga Lake to make the Greater Cleveland area a week long vacation (3 Days in Sandusky, a day or two at Geauga Lake, and a day or two seeing RNR HoF/Science Center, and of course our wonderful National Park!), but there is really not much reason to do both parks as they removed 2 of the 3 coasters that were somewhat different from CP. (I always liked the straight spike of S;UE over WT's twisted set). The only reason that I am purchasing an all CF pass is to make sure to ride Dominator before it gets removed and of course the Big Dipper, which is one of my Top 10 fav woodies since it was re-tracked.

What does anyone else think of my ramblings?