Cedar Point
— — the lake the rollercoasters lean against.
Not only on a wall.
“The park sits on a sand-bar peninsula north of Sandusky, water on three sides and a midway down the middle. Coasters lift above the trees and the lake catches the light behind them. People come for the rides. They stay through dusk because the light over Lake Erie does something the photographs never quite catch.
Cedar Point, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Cedar Point occupies a 364-acre peninsula on the south shore of Lake Erie, in Sandusky, Ohio, about 60 miles west of Cleveland. The park opened as a public beach and bathhouse in 1870, which makes it the second-oldest operating amusement park in the United States after Lake Compounce in Connecticut. It is reached via the Cedar Point Causeway from US Route 6, and its perimeter is bounded by water on three sides — Lake Erie to the north and east, Sandusky Bay to the south. The peninsula itself was named for the red cedars that once held its dunes in place.
Lake Erie is the shallowest and southernmost of the Great Lakes, averaging just 62 feet in depth, and the Cedar Point peninsula juts more than a mile into it. The shallowness is why Erie warms fastest among the Great Lakes in summer and freezes first in winter, and why its sunsets across open water carry a particular pink-into-violet of warm air over a wide horizon. The beach on the park's east side is open to the public, and the Cedar Point Lighthouse at the tip of the peninsula dates to 1862.
The park runs a seasonal calendar from early May through early November, with HalloWeekends from mid-September through October. Single-day tickets are tiered by date, and a season pass paid in instalments often costs less than two single days at the gate. The eighteen roller coasters draw the crowd — Steel Vengeance, Millennium Force, and the rebuilt Top Thrill 2 are the marquee rides — though early-morning weekday visits in May are the only reliable way to ride the headliners without a long wait. On-site hotels include Hotel Breakers, which has stood on the beach since 1905.