We love Halloween, and we also love roller coasters. I hadn’t been on a big one in years, though. We have talked about going to Cedar Point for a couple of years and finally did it for Halloweekends, which they do every year, and they do it big! It was my version of Disney – it felt like the happiest place on Earth!

Cedar Point is just over 150 years old, starting out as a beach and houses with a dance hall and finally the first carousel, which still runs today. It’s located on a peninsula on Lake Erie in Sandusky, Ohio, which is between Toledo and Columbus and as far north as you can go in Ohio.

We left home at about 7a.m. and after a stop for breakfast, got to Cedar Point just as they opened at 11a.m. We were able to ride some of our favorite roller coasters during the day,  had gorgeous weather all day, and then got to go through the haunted attractions in the evening. Curtis and I have never been to an amusement park together, so we were both excited to be able to do that. He has always told me that he gets sick on roller coasters. I suppose I should have believed him, I guess I thought he was exaggerating, maybe? But he wasn’t. The first one we rode was the Iron Dragon, which is about halfway to the back of the park. It’s not too big, has some good curves and speed, but doesn’t go in any loops. We got off of that, and he felt extremely queasy. So, we had to go find some Dramamine, which they do happen to sell in the General Store. I felt great and was ready to hop on the next one, he, was not feeling great, so we wandered around a bit. Once that Dramamine kicked in, we headed to Millennium Force, which is my all-time favorite roller coaster, and it was just as fun as I remembered it. It goes 80 miles an hour and drops you over 200 feet. So. Much. Fun. Curtis still felt icky after that one. Plus, the Dramamine made him tired. I made him drink a Redbull and power through it. We rode most of the other bigger coasters and some of the smaller rides that line the midway.

The highlight of the day, though, was all of the Halloween decorations and nighttime Halloweekend festivities. At 8 p.m. the haunted attractions open up. They have 10 different haunted attractions to go through, which include elaborate haunted houses and mazes. They also have live shows, scary actors on the midway, and of course, the roller coasters- what’s more fun than a roller coaster at night?! We were able to do most of them, before a monster storm came across the lake at about 10 p.m. and we decided to head to our hotel for the night. We were also exhausted from our busy day.

Normally we stay at a mid-range hotel, but I didn’t get a hotel room early enough so we ended up at a budget motel, not far from the park. I’m not going to say the name, but it was not good. If you go, try to plan ahead and hopefully you can opt for something a bit better. We could clearly hear the person in the next room snoring all night and then, in the morning,  smelled the exhaust fumes from the vehicles in the parking lot.

The 2024 Halloweekends schedule is listed here. Also important to note, if traveling with small children or people who like things a little less scary, Cedar Point has lanyards available so that the scare actors wandering around don’t traumatize someone who might not be able to handle it.

I hope you enjoyed this post- if you did, please like and share and drop a comment for me. I love to read the comments! Next week, I have a post about my favorite cities and the bridges in them. I do love a pretty bridge.