Frontier Trail

I personally liked when they had all the tress wrapped in lights a feeew years back, anyone else remember that?

I wish they’d bring them back, made for a really sweet walk thru there. Hopefully Tony will see this and maybe bring the, back!

Can’t wait til next season.

Ride on!!

From what I gather it was too unwieldy to keep up andd running. Anyone who puts christmas lights up each year will tell you that they can be a pain to keep lit year after year. I cant imagine the issues with that many lights,

Plus they had those bad winter storms that took out half the trees on the Frontier Trail a few years ago.

I really would like to see the whole park take on a lot more interesting and attractive nighttime lighting. Especially the parts built up in the late 1970's and later, where a "lighting package" consists of a couple of ugly orange mercury vapor floodlights pointed in the general direction of the ride. The one big disappointment of the big midway renovation a few years ago across the back of the park was that Gemini didn't get any new lighting. Can you imagine chase lights on Gemini like the ones on Blue Streak?

Of course a related issue is that it gets dark so late for so much of the season. But why not exploit that, with later hours to encourage people to stay later; no need to go home with hotel rooms and cabins just steps away.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I love cool lighting and we get it in HalloWeekends in trial most certainly. But in the Summer, I'm thinking it is worthwhile for the park to do it when it isn't night for all that long for most of the day's operation.

I think the trail looks much better now without the ‘christmas’ lights.
They could remove them off the main midway too and it’d be an improvement.
Lighting has gotten so much ridiculously cheaper and advanced in the last decade, I’m surprised they even still use the strand lighting at all.

RideMan said:

I really would like to see the whole park take on a lot more interesting and attractive nighttime lighting.

The year or year after Luminosity was added, they did quite a bit of lighting on the buildings down the main midway. I also really liked the lighting down the Gemini midway that was added during that renovation.

The loss of Starlight Experience was disappointing. It was really never the same after the first year. A believe bunch of trees were diseased and had to be removed near the blacksmith in the first off season. Then when Shoot the rapids was added, a bunch more trees were removed. It would still be nice to have a bit more back there, even if it wasn't what it was.

That's Starlight Experience!

Its first year was my first year to CP, so many of my early memories involved it <3 In fact, I even got those 3D glasses on my very first visit ever in June 2009, and I still have them.

I have lots of videos I took walking through the trail, and in one of them, I was wondering where the heck the entrance to Millennium Force was XD. I was so sure it was right by the tunnel back then.

Starlight Experience looked great! I was actually thinking of that the other day. A few weeks ago, someone asked me where that was. I explained that they got rid of it years ago. Turns out that was his first visit to the park in about 5 years.

I’d like to see it come back, as long as it was turned off for Halloweekends.

I am kind of with XS on this. While I love lighting and it makes it very festive, it is nice having a a more subdued and quite experience at night sometimes. Only other place in the park would be Dino’s I suppose.

^ I agree! Other areas I love to see things lit up at night. But not Frontier Trail. I never liked the feel of it while strolling trough it at night. I preferred the subdued lighting while walking the trail. It just felt more natural compared to the cheesy feeling I got with the lights.

Good lights are good. Bad lights are horrible.
The twinkling Christmas strands they’ve hung everywhere look like hell.
Spend some money on some lights and the main midway (and the trail for that matter) would look a whole lot better. Hell, our Easton Town Center looks better than Cedar Point at night.

I like the way CP looks at night bet then when it comes to lights I totally go for tacky so I guess that isn't saying much. Dress the Frontier Trail in vintage bubble lights I would be in heaven.

The lights on Pagoda and the ballroom are hideous. I thought they've looked tacky since they put them in. There's so much more they can do. However, I will say that the lighting packages on some of the rides and in certain areas have improved so much.

Let's start with something modest and (on Cedar Point's scale, at least) relatively inexpensive: Replace all the lights on the Corkscrew arches with drop-in-replacement red LED sign bulbs. So many of those lamps are burned out and the color is so badly faded...

Magnum could use a similar repair but I suspect some of its problems are a little more severe. Including that section near the top where the chase sequence runs backwards.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

^I'd love the LEDs, but they need to maintain them as well. For example the Carousel at KI was retrofitted completely with the new LEDs. Several rows / bulbs are burnt out around the ride it's actually noticeable. That's my biggest gripe, get new cool stuff, but maintain it.

Haunted mine or pirate dark ride.

I vote indoor pirate flume where STR was.

When you see a row of lights out on a ride, whether it's the carousel or a wheel or other circular ride, usually it's because something has caused the circuit breaker at the end of that sweep to trip. It could be a socket gone bad, or a lamp shorting out internally, or sometimes it can go back to the commutator. Not all that difficult but you first have to determine what it exactly is the problem, and that takes time.

Dutchman said:

When you see a row of lights out on a ride, whether it's the carousel or a wheel or other circular ride, usually it's because something has caused the circuit breaker at the end of that sweep to trip. It could be a socket gone bad, or a lamp shorting out internally, or sometimes it can go back to the commutator. Not all that difficult but you first have to determine what it exactly is the problem, and that takes time.

Still isn't rocket science. If their professional maintenance staff, including electricians, can't figure that out pretty quickly then they need to be shown the door. But, I don't think that's the case. I think it's a case of not wanting to spend the money.