Geauga Lake Final Season Footage - 2007

[@mattschubert590]

Truly sad, I remember spending so many days there as a kid, I attended the final day of operation unknowingly and right after that it was gone. I loved this place

[@XtremeCoasters]

We did as well. Every visit to CP was followed by a visit to Geuaga Lake. At least we managed to visit and have our memories of what was once an amazing park.

[@DysfunctionJunctionOhio]

Same here it was nothing for us to go there five or six on summer break then the last time there was the last day it would be open not even knowing it.

[@ggary04]

I'm in Michigan and all I can say is that between the remnants of Thunderhawk here and Michigan and the continual success of Cedar Point, we still have great places to go to.

[@kristenalexandra2701]

The double loop was my first experience of upside down rollar coasters. I remember being scared but my mom told me to remember to keep your head back into the seat when going in the loops and you’ll be fine. I loved it. Eventually I graduated to thunder hawk. Sitting in the front seat just before take off, I was crying and so scared but a very kind lady sitting next to me said “just scream your head off, nothing is scary when you just focus on screaming as loud as you can”. I always remember this park fondly and the experiences I had here that led me to be the roller coaster lover that I am today.

[@XtremeCoasters]

Thanks for sharing 🙂 This is the very reason we upload footage like this onto the channel. The quality isn't great compared to today's videos, but nostalgia is timeless. It's so sad nothing is left of this park now 🙁

[@downtoearthconstruction]

So many memories I knew that park like the back of my hand. Best park hands down!

[@RiffRaff654]

Thank you so much for taking me back to a great time in my childhood. Basically grew up at this park, had my first 'real rollercoaster' ride here on the Big Dipper, rode the Texas Twister all day long, and knew the place like the back of my hand. Thanks for the memories

[@XtremeCoasters]

We're pleased to hear you enjoyed the video 🙂

[@AirtimeThrills]

This is terrific stuff, great and valuable footage. Do you mind if I use this for a video I'm working on? I'd give full credit and a shoutout.

[@XtremeCoasters]

Hey Airtime Thrills. We've just sent you a DM through IG. We can chat directly there :)

[@ondreacounts2556]

Oh what wonderful memories I have of Geauga Lake Park! I was so heartbroken when I found out it had closed down. I remember back as far as 4yrs old, every summer for birthday, my dad would take the day off work if he had to just to take me there. Just me & him for my birthday, every year until I was 13yrs old then he'd just take me & my two best friends there for my birthday & drop us off so we could spend the day there & he'd come back by 7pm to pick us up. I went every year until I was 19 for my birthday. As time went on, I took my daughter there as well until she was 9yrs old & they shut it down. So many memories, thanks for sharing this video. It offered a piece of my childhood memories to me.

[@XtremeCoasters]

Thank you for sharing your wonderful memories and for watching. It was a beautiful park, we never had a bad experience any of the times we visited. We also have some footage uploaded from 2003, when the park was known as Six Flags World of Adventure. You can find the footage here if you want to give it a watch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4fVpXSfZ9SNoLs

[@mac6yver]

Thank you for uploading this, I have a lot of good memories at Geauga Lake.

[@XtremeCoasters]

We're pleased you enjoyed it. We also miss Geauga Lake. It was an amazing park that was closed down way too soon 😢

[@michaelelias1372]

My childhood and I miss it!

[@XtremeCoasters]

We do too 🙁

[@goddess_hylia_]

Miss this place!

[@XtremeCoasters]

Same here 😢

[@boligard]

Always came here with my family when I was a kid great times

[@wharfier]

Thanks for sharing! I have one from the last day up. How I miss this park!!

[@XtremeCoasters]

Same here :(

[@lashawnh7182]

When the world was once o so wonderful what I would do to be riding on that ride again rode by it recently heartbreaking 😢

[@jimeagle1155]

From SW Pa and my family went there every year throughout the 80's after Idora closed. I loved this place! I went again the last year it was open because I had a hunch it was going to be gone soon. I'm so glad I did, I just wish I wasnt so broke at the time and would have bought more souvenirs

[@jamesdavies686]

No kennywood?

[@RollerCoasterExpedition]

I didn’t know that you have a KZbin channel! I subbed!

[@DysfunctionJunctionOhio]

Thanks for the flashbacks

[@yesimacarguy30]

So many memories of geauga lake and sea world both as a kid and in my teens , greatly miss it

[@XtremeCoasters]

We do too. It was an incredible park! We're just thankful that we managed to visit when we did.

[@thatgoalie_1367]

Thanks for uploading this I never got to go but now I know how huge it was and how crazy it was they just closed it out of the blue

[@XtremeCoasters]

Thanks for watching 🙂 Yes, it was an incredible park. More so on our first visit in 2003 when the other side of the water was full of exhibits and shows. It was quite a shock to see how much the park had been downgraded by 2007. No one saw the closure coming however, we had no idea this would have been our final visit at the time. At least we were lucky enough to visit at all, there's a whole generation now that's missed out on this park. It's such a shame.

[@Joemama..]

It is disgusting to see how this park was treated in its last half decade of operation. This looked like one of the best theme parks ever. I am still lucky enough to have ridden 6 of the 10 rollercoasters at other parks after relocation

[@XtremeCoasters]

Yes, agree. It was a stunning park. By 2007, many of the rides and attractions had already been removed. Did you watch the Six Flags World of Adventure footage we have uploaded? That was filmed back in 2003 when the park was in its absolute prime. It was one of our favourite parks of the 2003 trip, and we visited a lot of parks that trip!

[@Joemama..]

@@XtremeCoasters no I haven’t yet, I’ll watch it soon. Also do you have any old footage of six flags new orleans or six flags astroworld as well?

[@danhallas3546]

As many times as I had been there (100’s) I can’t for the life of me remember that water boat ride (snake river falls looking ride). Where was it located in the park exactly? From the video looks like it was right along the lake maybe behind where the wave pool was? Not exactly sure but positive I saw Big Dipper in the background

[@XtremeCoasters]

It was called Ship Wreck Falls, and opened at the park in 2000. It backed onto the Big Dipper, the stations for both rides were pretty much next to each other. It was a good ride, the station theming was great. It's a shame it's been scrapped now. It did manage to survive one final season after Geauga Lake closed, but the park it was relocated to also closed.

[@danhallas3546]

Thanks for the info. I have fond memories of that place and it’s nice to see old videos of it up here on KZbin. Miss it dearly wish my kids could go there like I did we instead make the 2hr trek up to cedar point multiple times a year

[@XtremeCoasters]

@@danhallas3546 We miss it too. The way the park was not given a chance by Cedar Fair and ran into the ground was shocking.

[@danhallas3546]

Yeah they knew what they were doing. They didn’t want anymore competition than they already had within the state so buying out geauga lake and shipping the rides off to their other parks was in their best interests unfortunately

[@AaronC143]

I miss this place so bad. I wish it were still around today. The X-Flight was my favorite ride there. The arcade games I remember the most playing there, I remember playing Mortal Kombat 3 there and also Mortal Kombat 4. Those 2 games I remember the most. R.I.P. Geagua Lake 1887 - 2007

[@XtremeCoasters]

We do too. We're just thankful we managed to visit when we did. Little did we know that we visited the park as the last season of Six Flags Ohio, then again the last season before Cedar Fair closed the park down as Geauga Lake 🙁

[@RickyIcecubes]

This park was such a part of my childhood, and Six Flags ran it into the ground.

[@XtremeCoasters]

It's so sad that it's no longer there 😥

[@RickyIcecubes]

@@XtremeCoastersI could go on and on about it. It breaks my heart. It really was one of Ohio's best kept secrets and us kids from nearby communities practically lived there during summer vacation. We were really excited when Six Flags bought it promising to make it better than ever. Well, they definitely did; but they doubled the cost of admission. They didn't care about the generations of locals who had frequented the park for over a century, Six Flags wanted to challenge Kings Island and Cedar Point for a piece of their heavy tourist base and tried to turn it into a destination park. The locals abandoned it after the obscene price hike and it had no more customers.

[@ItsDannyRobbins]

The kid's commentary on Dominator brings me right back to riding it 14 times in a row as a kid myself, the first time my family visited in 2004. We really wished we had visited this park more. Its a shame that this property that was over a 100 years old closed due to a greedy franchise's poor planning.

[@XtremeCoasters]

It was an incredible park, it should have never closed.

[@rlcoasters]

Awesome footage! Do you mind if I used this for a video if I give you credit?

[@XtremeCoasters]

Thanks. Yes, of course :) We also have footage from 2003 uploaded, there were more rides in the park at that point. You can find the footage here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4fVpXSfZ9SNoLs

[@Givenofficial]

villain would have made for one hell of an RMC conversion

[@XtremeCoasters]

It's such a shame it was scrapped after so few years of operation.

[@twistedcheese1]

It looked like a great wooden coaster

[@funnyhappymations904]

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[@Shotmybiscuit]

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[@XtremeCoasters]

Correct 👍

[@jimbutke]

Never forgive what Cedar Fair did to this great park of my childhood

[@XtremeCoasters]

Many people feel the exact same.

[@tomrek5080]

Them coasters might be gone but they are definitely not scrapped! The batman or whatever it was called later on was bad ass! The superman was dope as hell the villan was a nasty one too. The wooden coasters aged hard. The raging something was rough like too rough to actually enjoy at all so I can see why they tor down alot. The north ohio weather is super hard also from an amusement and maintaining level it must be crazy insane . Just watching the Batman run man that coaster was so smooth when it opened it was insane. Kinda curious where it ended up. I'm absolutely positive that thing might of went for refurbishment but it's definitely not gone 💯 there's no way in hell anyone would do it it's somewhere else for sure.

[@XtremeCoasters]

Batman Kinght Flight is now operating as Dominator at King's Domion. Superman is now called Possessed and operates at Dorney Park, The Boomerang (Head Spin) went to Carowlinds. Apart from the odd small family coaster, pretty much every other ride at the park was scraped, or has since been scraped.

[@tomrek5080]

@@XtremeCoasters no way (wow) the villan was a great ride but it was wooden so I understand damn the double loop wasn't insane but it was a solid runner all day long. That place is crazy empty now it's nuts.

[@XtremeCoasters]

@@tomrek5080 Yes, it's very sad 😔

[@SnoopyMan6000vids]

I wished It was still there and the only things that we got from geauga lake to Cedar Point are the kiddie rides

[@XtremeCoasters]

We do too, it was such a great park 😔

[@garrettbrooks6576]

This had to have been Raging Wolf Bob's last days/weeks because it closed for the last time in June of that year.

[@XtremeCoasters]

@@garrettbrooks6576 Quite possibly. It's a shame it couldn't be saved. It was a good coaster.

[@randywest5149]

Randy West Rode 9 Roller 🎢 Coasters at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 EST. 1887-2007 1. Big Dipper EST. 1925-2007, 2. Raging Wolf Bobs EST. 1988-2007, 3. The Villain EST. 2000-2007, 4. Double Loop EST. 1977-2007, 5. Head Spin EST. 1996-2007, 6. Thunderhawk EST. 1998-2007, 7. Dominator EST. 2000-2007, 8. Steel Venom EST. 2000-2006, 9. X-Flight EST. 2001-2006, and Randy West Rode The Villain Roller 🎢 Coaster at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 EST. 2000-2007 on the year of 2006 and Randy West Rode Only One on Roller 🎢 Coaster Train at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 and Randy West Love ❤️ Geauga Lake/ Six Flags Worlds of Adventure/ Sea World of Ohio Mascots in Aurora, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 and Randy West Last Time at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 in the year of 2006.