New Amusement Park in Northern Michigan

I know this is a Cedar Point forum. For sure though, this would have influence on Michigan's Adventure and Cedar Point in the long term, if the project is able to get off the ground. The rumored named for the park is Six Flags/Main street America, in Grayling, Michigan.

It is not rumor. Local news is reporting it.

The hope is to have it opened by 2010.

The last remaining hurdle is for the michigan state department of natural resources to sell the land, that the developer wants to put the park on.

Here is the info...

http://www.9and10news.com/category/story/?id=117345

Businesses owners in Crawford County are very excited about the potential impact of a theme park proposal, named "Main Street America," for Grayling Township. If the DNR sells the land to the developer, the 160-million dollar and 18-hundred acre park would open in 2010.

http://www.tv7-4.com/Global/story.asp?S=6587044

The park is expected to cost $161 million to build and would include roller coasters, water parks for all ages, snow sports in the winter months and a train designed to look like the . The park would be open year-round

http://www.city-data.com/forum/michigan/52185-northern-michigan-theme-park.html

While this is cool, and will probably effect Cedar Point. You probably should have stopped when you typed that first sentence and aborted this post all together. I personally think this is a bad place for a Disney sized amusement park. Is this a Six Flags park? I don't remember seeing that... If it is, this could get ugly.

And this is already being discussed over at CoasterBuzz, where it should be.

http://www.coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=47095

And to add to that, a lot of us are also members of Coasterbuzz, so discussing a topic twice is out of the question. ;)

18hundred acres??? Yeah, ok. So CP is 360 Acres, right? Wow that is a big park. I do not think 160 million would go that far. If it is even enough to purchase the land.

Peace, Mikey

P.S. You should most likely put your flamecoat on. It might get kinda warm in here.

I just don't see a park in northern Michigan staying open year around, unless they double as a skiing/snowboarding resort as well. Cedar Point tried the year round (or at least Holiday) thing and it failed pretty miserably.

If you are all from Michigan Remember they have been saying this for how long? Last I heard it was not going to be a Six Flags and heck that would be nice to have an amusement park in the back yard. ( I live real close to the area)

If its a Six Flags park then Cedar Point or Geagua Lake has nothing to worry about then. You can put a theme park next to Cedar Point like a mile away and they would still do good.

They tried the same thing back when they built Jazzland in New Orleans, although it wasn't as large. An unknown entertainment company, in this case Axiom, tries to build a theme park. If it follows what happened in New Orleans, it will change owners before opening, have the worst attendence and profit rates ever, get picked up by a national chain, and get closed indefinitely by a flood. Although I doubt the last one. :)

It will not be a Six Flags park. With regular unleaded gas at $4 a gallon, I can not imagine attendance to be very high at this park. Some families could stop there on their way up north to Mackinaw City. From what I have heard, it is not that far from I-75. Michigan's Adventure is well known so I do not expect attendance to drop. I live about 20 miles from Michigan's Adventure so I go there. Perhaps if this park does do good, maybe Michigan's Adventure will get some new rides.

Michigan's Adventure is terrible. The few good parts of their waterpark is ruined by the number of whitetrash people that go to that place

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Wow, they'd fit right in at Geauga Lake, send 'em down. ;)

I Like Michigans Adevnture.

I like Michigan's Adventure and Geauga Lake. They both have good waterparks. If I didn't like like it, I wouldn't be a season pass holder. The only thing that Michigan's Adventure really needs is a new steel coaster.

paclivez05 said:
Michigan's Adventure is terrible. The few good parts of their waterpark is ruined by the number of whitetrash people that go to that place

Wow, that was rather uncalled for. Those "white trash" people are bringing attendance and profits to MIA. Without them you'd probably have an empty park. MIA isnt in the best of places like Cedar Point is, but at least it can draw a crowd.

paclivez05 said:
Michigan's Adventure is terrible. The few good parts of their waterpark is ruined by the number of whitetrash people that go to that place

Easy on the words please. Can get you removed from the site.

Didnt six flags also try autoworld? I really dont see this getting off the ground and if it does I surely dont see it lasting long...Six Flags really should get out of debt before they try to get right back in it...

But on the other hand, Michigan might do good from actually making money....for once.

I'd love to see another park nearby, but don't see the logic in building it up there, in a seemingly desolate location. It would have to be an amazing park really heavily advertised to pull the kind of attendance in. Especially with the competetion aronud. It takes years to get a reputation. You can't just copy Disney or Universal, plop it down in the middle of Michigan and expect the next tourist destination. Though, I think the winter activities would be kind of neat. That would draw people, at least from the surrounding area.

I hate vacationing in Michigan so you wont see me there.