Capacity

I was wondering what the capacity limit was for CP? Has it ever been met?

I thought they went over the limit last year didnt they start having people park along the causeway?

I remember pictures of the main lot full and people parked on the side of the causeway one Saturday during Halloweekends.

^Yea thats what I heard from some workers.

It was sometime in July of last year when I went, and I came back home, got on here and someone mentioned that there was some huge company picnic-esque thing going on the days that I went. I remember standing in line for front seat on MF and I was peering into the ride-op room. I saw on the board that there was a little congratulations to all of the workers for operating well under the most attendance on record. I don't know if this was true but it was the busiest I may have ever seen it and I've been going since 2000.

The Cleveland Clinic came, along with all the other park guests.^ It was sure one heck of a busy day or two, but I don't think it was record-breaking, though I could be wrong.

My understanding is that they run out of parking space long before the park can reach any kind of capacity levels that would be considered "full". There was a record breaking Halloweekends Saturday two years ago where they pretty much ran out of parking, and although the park was crazy packed, there was no talk of reaching a "capacity".

Ya... I had heard that July 4th, 08 was the most crowded ever! I didnt get to see the actual crowd because I was a Millennium, however Access road had dead stop traffic until we left Millennium at about 2 AM!

like Ralph said, the parking lot would fill long before the park would. If a football stadium can hold 112 thousand people, think about how empty the peninsula really is, even on busy days with something like 40-50 thousand.

That would be the exact opposite of fun. What would you be able to do? Ride MF once, and then maybe take a ride at Cedar Downs? Thank Jebus for mid-May weekdays.

coasterdave said:
Ya... I had heard that July 4th, 08 was the most crowded ever! I didnt get to see the actual crowd because I was a Millennium, however Access road had dead stop traffic until we left Millennium at about 2 AM!

Hence, why their open till 1AM this season. Those days don't count employee parking because were not allowed to drive to the park, everyone must take the bus. So, if you take out employee parking and there was parking all the way down the Causeway, then I'm sure capacity was met.

And the "Ride Op Room" is called Controls, for future reference.

Well that's a lot of people, and car's.

Cedar Point's parking lot fills up on days with attendance of roughly 50,000 people. On average that is about 5 people per vehicle. Some cars have 1 or 2 people in them, some buses have dozens of people in them.

The busiest day I experienced was 56,000 people if I recall correctly during bonus weekends of 2003. People were parking on the grass next to the causeway. The barriers were later put up in response to that day. I worked Millennium Force that day from open to close.

I started the day at entrance. I started opening up ques as soon as Joe Cool and Resort guests arrived. As I was opening up the first block before the ramp. I noticed one of the security guards opening up ques of the first few on the vending machine block on the ramp side. I asked her why she was doing that. In a fret, she said that the line was over the tracks. Unbeknown to me, the regular guests were coming in droves.

As it turned out, I opened every single queue row in a single shot. We then had a line extending past Red Garter Saloon and a ride host with a candy cane at the end of the line. That day was reminiscent to the ride's inaugural year back in 2000. It was one of the more fun days I worked, although it sucked for the guests since the the lines were long for everything from Millennium Force to the CP&LE train.

That sounds like a pretty crowed day there, when I was there in Oct last year on a saturday driving by the park heading back to the hotel, the cars were parked back to the toll booth, with cars parked on the gress next to it. This was only six o'clock, they were working on parking them pass the toll booth. Then they were parked on the grass next to Blue Streak, MF line was filled up with may be the extra area to, and Mean Streak had an 1 hour 15 min wait. It had its queue area being used up.

I used to see the hourly attendance numbers at the Food Service office in the mid-70s. As I recall, the peak numbers for the summer were always in the 60K range.