What happens if you stay after hours...?

What happens if you stay in the park after it closes. Can you just walk around all night, like back on the Frontier Trail? Or just until a nightly worker tells you to leave?

Security will find you! If you are shopping or something, that's fine, but if it is really late they will ask if you work there and ask to see your employee ID -- I had this happen to me when I'd take walks along the midway at 2am! They don't like anyone to be back in the Frontier area, though. I suppose if you're a guest, not an employee, they'll escort you out or something. :)

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Disaster Transport '97 Crew
Iron Dragon '98 Crew

The cops institute a one-way flow of sorts. For example, you can't go from Magnum toward Gemini, because you'd have no reason to.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 35

Do they check the bushes, up in trees, and every other little nook and cranny at night to see if anyone is hiding for the next day?
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"Magnum + Prozac= Millennium Force

I always pondered that...and for one moment last month on the 26th seriously considered it...until my friend brought me back to reality. On May 27(?) I was creating a film for one of my classes, and just after we got off MF for our final ride, we were going to head over to Tenderfoot Pass to get one more shot of MF coming over the hill at night. There were two guards standing near where the TTR is handed out during the day, and they wanted to know where we were going. I asked them if we could go film for a second with one of them escorting us, but they said no. I wasn't really serious, but if one of them had let us, I might have worried about the future of CP security, and their strictness. We still hung around until aproxxamately 11:30, and then they kicked us out of the Pagoda Gift Shop, where we had been for about an hour, but bought nothing. (Hey, why do you think we went to the Power Tower Store?!) It was fun, and this post has now lost all meaning, so I'll now shut my mouth.

I don't really know if guards check every place possible, but there are a lot more people in the park after hours than you'd think. Maintenance, groundskeepers, landscapers, trash removal, stocking, cleaning -- there wouldn't be that many places you could hide, and you'd have to be absolutely still all night. But sometimes sneaking in in broad daylight works too: I was in the Raptor break area (behind the DJ booth), and a whole family walked right in through the gate under the Blue Streak, and no one stopped them. And the employee gate over by Breakers isn't guarded all night -- you could get in there until about 6am if you really wanted to, but you would still have to hide.

But my thoughts: why bother letting the risk ruin a great day at America's Roller Coast? I'd hate to get caught!

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Iron Dragon '98 Crew

It is fun to stay in the park after it closes, all you see are the employees walking around, the trash crew and lights. Anyway, once me, a friend, my brother, and my cousin were at CP and we stayed at the park after it closed. We immediately bought a pizza before the shop closed for the night and we sat at a table and started eating. So we're just sitting there eating pizza and confusing people on the walkie talkie when, suddenly, my friend decides he wants to jump in the pool with the waterball in it. I thought he was just joking, but he started walking towards it. I just watched and he took his shoes off and jumped in. He walked around a little, went through the waterball, got soaked, jumped out, and came back. That was pretty funny. Out of curiosity, what consequence might he had if someone had seen him? (luckily no one did!)

That reminds me, my aunt worked at CP in the 60s, and she said that every night, there were many kids that were left behind from a school group or something that forgot them. Does anyone know if this is still very common?

Thats funny, I was just talking about this with a friend as we walked back from MF to the Sandcastle at 12:45 a.m. on monday and wednesday nights. There were many CP employees walking around (although not too many cops)but most seemed like they just got off work and didn't give us a second look. (Of course we weren't anywhere we weren't supposed to be either.) Its definitely erie being in the park with almost all of the rollercoaster lights on but with no one in the park. Anyways it seemed to me that if someone really wanted to jump in the lagoon and hide they may be able to get away with it until at least the morning. But it seems to me you'd really have to be committed (and probably have to sacrifice a noght of sleep) to try and pull it off.

But in the lagoon you have to worry about rabid catfish. The question is not can it be but where to do it. If you really wanted to stay in the park you would have to find a hiding place in the light of day. Then you would have to have a wristwatch with an alarm. You would have to set the alarm for 8:45 to give you time to be ready to get out of your hiding place at 9:10 atleast. The best area to hide would be the frontier trail due to the fact that most people enter the main gate and takes them about 10 to get to the back of the park. The best place to hide would be away from a major ride (i.e. Millennium Force)
Now by doing this here is a list of things you would have to sacrifice
#1 Bath,Shower ( althought I suppose you could bathe with some moist towelettes from a food stand)
#2 Toothbrushing
#3 A good nights sleep
#4 good smell

(Legal Note: I do not promote/endorse staying in the park all night for thrill, thrift, ect.. If I find that my post is given to any emplyee you agree that whenever I am in the park Millennium Force will be closed and I and the rest of my party will have full use of aforementioned ride)

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Remember, line jumping is NOT a sporting event!

Hey hide behind the frontier sewing shopunder trees and brush it will work believe me

I worked a overnight shift at CP for a few seasons. I never saw any guest in the park when they shouldn't be. I'm not saying it's never happened, but it would be a lot harder than you think. Some of the stuff CP Police does after hours looks like secret military operations :)

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Cedar Point Virtual Midway
http://www.schmidty.com/cpvirtual

Do you guys remember when Jeff said that CP management reads this board "Because it keeps us on our toes"? I suspect that THIS thread has raised a few eyebrows. :)

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Dave McWilliams

Yes that's why I added that Legal Note on my post.

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Remember, line jumping is NOT a sporting event!

Digressing a little from the original topic...

Did I ever tell the story of how I got thrown *into* Cedar Point by park security? :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

At Coastermania this year, we were the 3rd-4th last train out on Magnum. It was like 1:30a.m. and the park felt dead. There were almost no light on, no noise or movement except the wind gusts, trash flying around, and skidloaders of workers, and no people around. When we got to the parking lot, there were probably only 25 cars scattered about. It felt really eerie. There was nothing stopping me from going back towards Gemini. Since my brother and his friend were on the train after us, I ran over to Dogems to get one last picture of MF. I thought about seeing what the Frontier Trail looked in pitch blackness, but then my brother wouldn't have known where I went.

On another note, this thread was NOT meant to PROMOTE or give EXAMPLES of how to hide in the park at night, but a thread about a question I had about the subject. So if you post trying to spread information about HOW to hide in the park, please don't do it.

Please share, Dave!

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Cedar Point Virtual Midway
http://www.schmidty.com/cpvirtual

Yeah, Dave, tell us! Oh, this ought to be good.:)

Oh, all right...It was Spring of...I think it was 1992. I was attending the ACE Spring Con, and several of us exited the park through the gate behind Magnum and proceeded down the Perimeter Road to the "no parking" area across from the boneyard and behind Mean Streak. There, we proceeded to shoot lots of photographs. Probably a half-dozen of us, and I should add that while we all ignored the "NO PEDESTRIANS BEYOND THIS POINT" sign, we were all very careful to take all reasonable precautions when walking in a traffic area. It wasn't long before a CPP officer arrived to inquire as to what we were doing (well, we are all standing here wearing coaster shirts with cameras in hand, standing in the only spot on the property where you can see the bottom of Mean Streak's first drop...what do you think we're doing?). He was nice enough to let us finish shooting photos, but he lectured us on not walking down the Perimeter Road, and escorted us back into the park. So Cedar Point holds the distinction of being the only amusement park I have ever been thrown *into*. Go figure...! :) --Dave Althoff, Jr.

Am I the only one who has noticed the security Cameras. They are hard to find but they are there. I am sure you could be arrested if you are cought. It just isn't worth it. Unless you really enjoy sleeping with the carp. ;)

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Dispatch Master, This is Transport one! I'm losing control, I'm losing control!