2025 Operating Calendar

https://www.cedarpoint.com/...-and-hours

The 2025 operating calendar has been posted. Opening Day will be Saturday, May 3, 2025. Closing Day will be Saturday, November 1st.

I missed the traditional Sunday Closing Day this year and was hoping it was a one off. Closing Day isn't as special with the Saturday Haunt crowds.

11PM close dropped from summer Fridays; night rides are a thing of the past.

I don't see the grand opening date for the Siren's Curse bathrooms marked anywhere on the operating calendar. This concerns me. There are some good bushes over there by Iron Dragon already, if push comes to shove I can duck into those if nature calls.

Flush with excitement for it?

The floaters in the lagoon ain't logs! Somebody call lagoon maintenance crew, bring back that TT2 crane, this ones quite large!

Earlier closing times means cramming the most people into the shortest time periods. Keep screwing guests.

Or it simply means that they observed low attendance during this hour in prior seasons and decided to adjust accordingly. Perhaps (well hopefully) they'll reallocate the labor to the busier hours, improving the guest experience.

CoasterHawk:

Earlier closing times means cramming the most people into the shortest time periods. Keep screwing guests.

Fridays from July 4th to Labor Day went from 11pm to 10pm closing time. That's eight, maybe nine total operating hours over the entire season.

I think you'll be okay.

yeah, quitcher gripin’.
There was a time when the calendar and operating hours never changed. Opening day was Memorial Day weekend and closing was Labor Day. Hours were from 10a to 10p every day. The only exception would on extremely busy Saturdays when they might decide to extend ops to 11p, but that was never announced. The call would be made on the day, sometimes as late as 9/9:30. As a manager I didn’t work Saturday evening so if I was just hanging around the park with friends (which was usual) it was great to have the surprise extra hour that no one was counting on. My assistant manager, however, was not very happy that she couldn’t close at ten.
Word was that they would go into the park and if Blue Streak’s line was down the walk, past Pirate Ride, extending as far as the big ball fountain on the main Funway, then they’d go for the extra hour. Rides always stayed open until park close, so new rides with long lines like Corkscrew and Jumbo Jet would sometime run until after midnight.

What would prevent people from joining those lines of the attractions you mentioned continuously? Or, did they post someone there to block access?

You mean to say your assistant manager wasn't happy to get an extra $4.40 hourly wage for that? Sorry, asst. mngr. likely was paid at least $4.65 per hour.

A cop would prevent that. An officer would enter the line to be the last person then had the job of telling everyone after to go home. When the back of the line finally went into the station he would move a trash can to block the entrance.
We fun-loving kids, trying to be on the last train of the day, would hang out at the ride close to closing time. When we saw the cop we’d rush to jump in line ahead of him. I had a boyfriend who was a ride op and if he saw us on the last train he would let us ride a few times in a row.
(and yes, the last train thing existed even in the 70’s).