Indiana Beach

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Indiana Beach

Type
Founded	1926 (Ideal Beach)
Headquarters	Monticello, Indiana United States
Industry	Amusement Park
Owner	Morgan RV Resorts
Website	indianabeach.com

Indiana Beach's skyline

Indiana Beach is an amusement park located in Monticello, Indiana, USA on Lake Shafer, a manmade lake on the Tippecanoe River. The park, originally named Ideal Beach, opened in 1926 with only a sand beach swimming area, bath house, and refreshment stand.

Today it is home to one of the state’s largest coasters, the Hoosier Hurricane, and dozens of other amusement rides. Some of its other coasters include two older steel coasters, the Galaxi and the Tig'rr, and two other wooden ones, Cornball Express, and Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain. The newest coaster, the Steel Hawg, is under construction and will open in mid-June 2008.

There is a hotel and there are cottages for rent on the Indiana Beach property. Adjacent to the amusement park is the Indiana Beach campground with over 1,400 camping sites.

Indiana Beach is also home of The Shafer Queen, Indiana's largest regularly scheduled paddle wheel driven sightseeing vessel. The boat is 26 feet wide, 82 feet long, weighs 76 tons, and has a capacity of 250 passengers. Between 50,000 to 60,000 passengers per year cruise on the Shafer Queen.

One of Indiana Beach's slogans is "There's more than corn in Indiana." and this is frequently repeated on television advertisements alongside the park's mascot, IB Crow.