How much for a kid to take to Cedar Point?

[DetroitDad]

Detwa: The reason I've never been is that I can't do any of the rides. I took my son [[many moons ago) to DisneyLand and Knott's Berry Farm. I stood around for hours and hours waiting for him to get done on the rides, bored to death. I have taken my grandkids to Michigan Adventure too...but again..I don't do the rides.

I went to the old Edgewater Park when I was teen...and woofed my cookies on what most people considered to be a "gentle" ride. I get motion sickness very easily...in cars, planes, anything that moves...LOL

Just not something I enjoy...but I'm happy to go sit poolside while everyone else has their fun!

Blueidone, our family has always gotten season passes, and while I love the rides, I hate those days where there are really long lines, it just doesn't feel worth it to wait anymore. We went opening day a couple weeks ago, and ended up riding one roller coaster, and a few small carnival type rides. The rest of the time was spent on the steam train, taking in the many live shows/performances, strolling along the Frontier Trail watching glass blowers, artists, wood carvers, and black smiths, enjoying the gardens, and walking along the mile or so of beaches that surround the lake side of the peninsula. The trip was capped with whatching the sunset from the long pier at the tip of the penninsula, and a Ferris Wheel ride overlooking the bright midway lights at night.

Rides have kind of taken over Cedar Point today, but the stuff that started it all, and attracted families a hundred plus years ago, is still there [[especially the gardens and beaches).

Cedar Point is really more of a Detroit and Midwest icon and symbol of the great rust belt than anything else. We had such a love for industry and large machines that we ended up with the largest amusement park, with the most roller coasters. An interesting fact is that Cedar Point was once only accessible by ships from the mainland, the large ships would chug all the way across the lake, mainly from Detroit and Cleveland alone, in the early days.

[[Area amusement park history is obviously my "thing").

[DetroitDad]

Some of Cedar Point's ride's and steam ships of the teens and twenties were made right here in Detroit;

Prior to 1907, large passenger ships from Detroit, Toledo and Cleveland headed to the resort needed to land in Sandusky, where passengers transferred to ferry boats and went on to the resort. Boeckling built a lake landing on the peninsula’s western tip to drop off and pick up resort guests; this opened up even more traffic to the resort.

The steamer Put-In-Bay Sailed from Detroit to Toledo, and on to Put-In-Bay and Cedar Point.

The double-ended steamer ferry G. A. Boeckling was christened in June of 1909 to carry passengers to Cedar Point from Sandusky; it remained in service for more than forty years. Built by the Detroit’s Great Lakes Engineering Company, she measured one hundred and fifty five feet, and could handle 660 people in one crossing.

Quotes and photo from Times Magazine