Cedar Point in the Winter?

I always like to imagine what it's like to do the polar bear plunge for the red cross event....Brrrrrr

The Polar Bear Plunge, just like riding any roller coaster in sub-freezing temps, is something I just don't care to do. I realize the Plunge is for a good cause, but I will happy to write the Red Cross a check from the warmth of my living room!

ive always wanted cedar point to do a christmas event...

They did. Only you missed it by about 17 years. It was back in 1994.

Jason Hammond said:
They did. Only you missed it by about 17 years. It was back in 1994.

I'm guessing it didn't attract the crowds they were hoping. Does anybody know how much they were charging for this? and Did anybody on here go to it?

It was free, except for the carriage ride through the park. I have video somewhere.

I didn't expect free. Maybe they were hoping the souvenir sales would offset the cost. I'd like to see the video if you come across it.

An idea that can be built upon (or discarded) ---

make a few hotel rooms available thru the winter, perhaps at Breakers East. have some groomed trails for walking / cross country skiing, maybe a deal to go to Castaway Bay for a spa, etc

Ice skating at Bubbles!!!! :>) ...... (not such a silly idea, it works and attracts a lot of folks at the Point Pelee marsh every winter only 20 miles or so to the north)

I have always wondered this: How do they take off a train? I know they use a crane, but I'm talking like how they uncoupled the wheels from the track so they can just slide out so it's easy for them to pull the train off?

Via a transfer track. The newer steel coasters have removable sections on their transfer track. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the older ones have stoppers at the end of their transfers that can be unbolted which allows them to slip the trains on and off. And I think it's the same deal with wooden coasters. Again, correct me if I'm wrong. Older entries from OnPoint shows them putting cars on the transfer tracks of different coasters before opening day as well as some "after closing day entries" of them taking cars off.

Arrows can be removed via the transfer track in the back, the track on mine is actually exposed on the back. All they have to do is release the brake, and pull it off and up with a crane. Maggie has wheel chucks on the front of the transfer track, and they take it off that way. They can also take it off via the back if needed, but the grade allows them to roll them forwards and off. WT has a removable track section and they pull it off that way. Intamins use the transfer track to take them off. These I believe have removable sections, except for TTD, those they can just slide the wheels onto the transfer tracks and jog them forward. As for woodies, I'm not sure, I think those they remove the upstop wheels, but I'm not sure, I haven't witnessed them putting on or taking trains off. B&M's I think the track is exposed like arrows, I'd need to have a shot of the transfer table to confirm...However we shouldn't have to take a B&M off like that if we built sheds like B&M wants (example: diamondback)..

I got to watch them put WT's train back on the track one morning after it was being worked on all night. There is a removable piece on the launch track right outside the station (right past the first brake and 1st set of LIMs). They had to release the first brake via switch on the hydraulic that makes the brakes go up and down. Then they had a forklift with a pallet connected to it, to grab from underneath the train as they slowly pushed the train off of the removable track.

There are 8 cars, 18 wheel bogies, and 108 wheels altogether that consist of WT's train. So it was a very careful process.