Ohio inventions and firsts · First · 1892
Cedar Point opens its first roller coaster
Louis Zistel opened Cedar Point as a bathing beach in 1870. The park's first amusement ride, a water toboggan, opened in 1890 and its first roller coaster, the Switchback Railway, in 1892. In 1989 Magnum XL-200 debuted as the tallest and fastest coaster in the world, starting the hypercoaster class.
At a glance
- Year
- 1892
- Company
- Cedar Point
- Place
- Sandusky, Erie County ZIP 44870 · Sandusky · Erie County
Why it matters
Grew into one of the best-known roller coaster parks in the world.
Sources
Confidence. Medium: the main facts were confirmed, but some details (often an address or ZIP code) were not.
