Conneuat Lake Park, is an excellent place to visit. The park has the sort of charm that you don't get at the other "Theme Parks" The staff was very friendly. The rides are awesome. The Blue Streak especially is a really cool old coaster. The prices were very reasonable. I go there quite a bit and have never had a bad experience. Sure the park needs a lot of TLC. But I would rather go to Conneuat Lake Park any day than wait in huge lines for rides at other parks. People really need to give the park a chance. The Board is doing the best they can, And I know the park will around for a long time. So if you a planning a trip there, please be respectful of the folks running the park, They are doing the best they can.
Its so sad to see the park going down hill. The rides run but it feels like a ghost town. Plus side, no line.
I've been patronizing this park since the early 1980's and am saddened to see where it is today. This place has so much great history and is seems as though the locals don't want to see it succeed. Let the experts along and bring it back!!!!!
I love this coaster... Just wish the park can get itself together... But the Blue Streak has great air time hills... A bit rough but its an old wooden roller coaster I visited during summer break 2013 they are in deep financial troubles... VISIT WHILE YOU CAN!
They're trying with new paint everywhere. At least half of the park has burned down, and the other half is depressing. This one of our families favorite haunts through 2 generations. But if my children were small again, I'd refuse to let them on a ride because of safety. This park has seen it's better days. But the memories are worth a walk around the place. Then you can leave and have a good meal at one of Conneaut or Meadville's many good restaurants.
love the park. The blue streak and tumble bug are amazing. Hopefully the new board can turn the park around
Given Conneaut Lake Park's current financial troubles, we made a special trip up there just to make sure that we would have the chance to ride the Blue Streak in case it disappears soon. We had never visited this park before so were unsure what to expect.The location is amazing, situated right next to the beautiful Conneaut Lake, but the beauty ends with the lake. It is obvious that at some point they attempted to fix up some of the booths and the benches with fresh coats of paint, but these were already starting to peel and chip. Some rides were not operating and some had pieces of them standing but were missing other pieces. The pavement on the midway is cracked so much that you have to watch your step as you walk. The layout is odd as there are signs at both ends of the midway that appear to be the beginning and end points of the park, but then there are also some rides on the opposite sides of the signs (it made me wonder whether these were independently-operated rides separate from the park itself).The Blue Streak itself is a great classic wooden coaster. A little rough at points, of course, but that is to be expected. It will be very sad if this coaster does not survive as it is worth a visit to the park on its own for any coaster fan. We also rode the Devil's Den, which seems to suffer from a lack of anything on the inside except some strobe lights. The gum wall is rather disgusting and the park has chosen to support the vandalism by selling individual pieces of gum at the ticket booth and advertising to "stick it to the devil." Park employees seemed friendly enough and some were using their down time (as it was almost a ghost town) to clean fences and benches with a rag and spray bottle. At least they cared enough to try to maintain what they could.The gift shop had very few Conneaut Lake Park items. There were actually more souvenirs from other parks (such as the now-closed Geauga Lake) than from Conneaut Lake Park itself. Overall the mood in the park seemed to be very somber. There were not many smiles on the few guests that were walking around the midway. This park has a lot of history and I am glad I was able to visit, but I am not sure that it is salvageable at this point without prohibitively huge capital expenditures and an outpouring of local community support.
This historic park offers several last of their kind rides and one of the most thrilling wooden roller coasters in the Blue Streak!
It truly pains me to give Conneaut Lake Park a poor review, but I just can't justify anything higher. My family used to spend a week at CLP every summer in a rental cottage, and I can't tell you how many happy memories I have of those times. Easily the highlight of my summer for many, many years in the 1980s and (early) 90s.For "old times sake" I took my wife and 3 little girls to the Park this July for a visit. My parents had warned me that I would be shocked by what I saw, and sadly they were correct. Probably 75-80% of the Park from the "old days" was either gone or boarded up. Most of the rides are gone, the water park is closed, the Beach House burned down, the midway was boarded up. No arcade or Fascination. The only carnival games were popping a balloon with a dart, and there was only 1 food stand open. Kiddie Land was open, and the VERY friendly staff was more than happy to run whichever rides my kids wanted to ride. The Carousal was open and is still a gem. My wife and I rode the Blue Streak, which is still a legit roller coaster. The beach and the Hotel both looked in good shape. But that doesn't change the fact that it's just a depressing place these days. Most of the cottages/houses are in shambles. Too much of the park itself looks neglected. And while the staff is friendly, it's in their faces that the place is barely holding on. Unfortunately, the only people who I can see it being worth a trip to CLP are families with young kids who used to go their years ago and want to take a trip back for nostalgia purposes. You can find multiple county fairs that will have more rides, more games and more to do than CLP on a given weekend. I truly hope someone with deep pockets can find a way to save the park, but after spending a day there I can't say that I'm optimistic.
I visited the park this summer to get my ride in on the Blue Streak. I arrived at the advertised time but the park had yet to be opened. I saw some workers (let's just say even finding the entrance was confusing so I was elated to see actual people) since the signs were very confusing. A park worker approached me and asked if she could "help" me. I told her sure, where could I get ride tickets? She told me that they would be opening the ticket booth momentarily, although you would think that this would have happened already since the advertised time of opening had come and gone already.In the meantime, there were children running around with wristbands on, indicating that the ticket booth had, at some time, been open. So I asked about that. The woman told me those were the workers' kids and they had obtained the bands prior to opening. Hmmm, for a financially strapped park, comping bands and not opening on time are really not good business practices. I sat and waited a full hour before the ticket booth opened. Yes, that's right. a full hour that the park opened late. I got my ride on Blue Streak, walked around a bit, then left. The place is dismal. The descriptions given by other reviewers is accurate. Cracked pavement, rides in disrepair, parts of rides strewn about, an old Toboggan ride just parked in the field...totally disgusting. The park either needs to be sold at the impending sheriff's sale so the financial obligations can be taken care of and then something done about the park, or the rides need relocation so they can be saved.