Valleyfair has been on my roller coaster bucket list for years, and when I recently found myself in the Twin Cities area, I knew I had to make a quick trip to Shakopee to visit the park. Overall, I was...
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Valleyfair Repainting High Roller Wooden Coaster for 2022
Valleyfair is giving one of its veteran attractions a fresh coat of paint in advance of the park’s 2022 season. High Roller is the oldest coaster at Valleyfair, opening with the Shakopee, Minnesota amusement park in 1976. It stands 70...
Continue reading...The Coaster101 Podcast: Chatting With Valleyfair VP/GM Raul Rehnborg
This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Valleyfair Vice President/General Manger Raul Rehnborg. Raul is a 35-year theme park veteran, whose career has included stops at Knott’s Berry Farm, Knott’s Soak City (in both Buena Park & San Diego),...
Continue reading...What Your 2022 Cedar Fair Season Pass Will Cost You
That sound you hear? It’s the return of theme park normalcy (almost, anyway.) After significantly shortened seasons (if even opening at all) in 2020, all of Cedar Fair’s amusement parks returned to a “closer to normal” schedule for 2021. While...
Continue reading...The Coaster101 Podcast: Cedar Fair Reopening Roundtable with Valleyfair, Kings Dominion & Schlitterbahn
Stop us if you’ve heard this before. 2020 was a roller coaster of a year. The good news is, it’s now 2021, and theme parks are getting ready to open again. All of Cedar Fair parks open later this month,...
Continue reading...Cedar Fair Parks Update COVID-19 Policies and Protocols
Cedar Fair parks across the country are preparing to open for the 2021 season — some for the first time since 2019 — with new or updated health and safety protocols to keep guests safe and combat the spread of...
Continue reading...One Team: Cedar Fair Comes Together for Cedar Point’s Fall Fest
If there’s one word to describe the past eight months in the theme park industry, interesting feels like a strong candidate. (This is assuming that we can’t use a bunch of choice “four-letter” words, since this a family-friendly website.) What...
Continue reading...Carowinds, Kings Dominion, Valleyfair, California’s Great America to Remain Closed for 2020 & More Cedar Fair Updates
As the “traditional” 2020 theme park calendar winds to a close, unfortunately, due to uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, several Cedar Fair parks will not open this season, and to COVID-19 as an entity, we have one thing to say: In a...
Continue reading...Cedar Fair Parks Postpone Multiple Events Until 2021
Yesterday, updates were posted from all parks across the Cedar Fair Chain in regards to the 2020 operating season. While no future park opening dates were announced, the parks all provided updates on the status of multiple 2020 events and...
Continue reading...Cedar Fair Hints At What Their Parks Might Look Like When Re-Opening
Cedar Fair held their investor earnings call and released their first quarter earnings results yesterday. As expected, most of the focus was on the impact of COVID-19 on the company and the parks. A few nuggets of information on park...
Continue reading...Every Cedar Fair Park is Extending Season Passes to 2021
In posts to their social media and on park websites today, April 14, 2020), every amusement park owned by Cedar Fair announced that they are extending their 2020 season passes to cover 2021 as well. This a response to park...
Continue reading...Report that Six Flags Is Interested in Buying Cedar Fair, and the Reaction To It
Is Six Flags Trying to Buy Cedar Fair? If you’re a regular follower of theme park news, you may have seen this morning that a report came out from Reuters that Six Flags made a stock-and-cash merger offer to Cedar...
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