Cedar Creek Mine Ride

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Cedar Creek Mine Ride

Location Cedar Point
Type Steel - Mine Train
Status Open
Opened May 24, 1969
Manufacturer Arrow Dynamics
Designer Ron Toomer
Model Runaway Mine
Lift/launch system Two chain lift hills
Height 55 ft (17 m)
Drop 48 ft (15 m)
Length 2,400 ft (730 m)
Max speed 42 mph (68 km/h)
Inversions 0
Duration 2:42
Max vertical angle 45°
Capacity 2,400 riders per hour
Height restriction 4 ft 0 in (120 cm)
Cedar Creek Mine Ride at RCDB
Pictures of Cedar Creek Mine Ride at RCDB

Cedar Creek Mine Ride is a roller coaster operating at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio in the Frontiertown section of the park. It is the second oldest operating roller coaster in the park behind Blue Streak. While many patrons mistake the coaster as being wooden, the ride is actually constructed of steel tubular track on a wooden frame, hence it is considered a steel roller coaster.

Cedar Creek Mine Ride is one of two roller coasters at Cedar Point to utilize two separate lift hills, the other being Iron Dragon. Cedar Creek Mine Ride was originally built to handle up to six trains at once. Many of those block brakes have been removed. The coaster typically only operates with two trains, and three on high attendance days.

Cedar Creek Mine Ride has given over 62 million rides since it opened in 1969, but over the past ten years attendance has declined on the ride.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Cedar Creek Mine Ride", Cedar Point. Retrieved on 2007-12-21. 

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