![]() There are coasters for every taste and thrill tolerance. The Switchback is no longer there, replaced by a mixture of wooden coasters and new steel tube models that test the laws of gravity. Its summit was 7.6 metres and it topped out at 16 km/h. The Top Thrill Dragster and Millennium Force, both of which cost $25-million (U.S.) to construct, are the premier rides at the park, a quantum leap forward from Cedar Point's first coaster, the Switchback Railway, built in 1892. (The Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., has since surpassed it in height and speed.) It was the tallest roller coaster in the world when it opened in 2003 and also the fastest, reaching a speed of 193 km/h as it makes its final, twisting descent. The Top Thrill Dragster has that honour, peaking at 128 metres. The Millennium Force isn't even Cedar Point's tallest. And many of them are higher than any cedar could ever grow. Now roller coasters sprout all over the landscape - there are 16 in all. (Lake Compounce in Bristol, Conn., opened 24 years earlier.) It comes by its name honestly - it sits at the end of a peninsula or point that was once covered in a cedar grove. ![]() Alternatively, it's a two-hour drive from Detroit's main airport.Ĭedar Point has been around since 1870, making it the second-oldest amusement park in North America. Travellers can also fly into Cleveland, rent a car and be at Cedar Point in about an hour. We've gone both ways and found little difference in the time it takes. But the park has so many other rides and its on-site resort is such a pleasant place to stay, that we're all hooked.īy car, Sandusky can be approached from two directions, via Buffalo and taking Interstate 90 west or via Detroit and taking I-75/I-90. My twin daughters are only nine years old, and my wife doesn't share my interest in roller coasters, so I go solo on the big ones. We've made the eight-hour road trip to Cedar Point from our home in Toronto an annual summer event. It's my favourite coaster and Cedar Point is, bar none, the best roller-coaster park on the planet. I'm no roller-coaster fanatic, but Millennium Force is reason enough to make the trek to Sandusky, an otherwise unremarkable beach town in an unremarkable corner of Ohio, west of Cleveland. It reaches a speed of 148 km/h, traverses secondary hills that are larger than most roller coaster's highest peaks, glides quietly with nary a bump, rounds highly banked corners, and takes a staggering two minutes, 20 seconds to return to the departure dock. And the Millennium Force is nothing if not exhilarating. Of course, the flip side of being terrified is being exhilarated.
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