Cedar Fair, L.P.

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Cedar Fair, L.P. NYSE: [FUN] is a publicly-traded company based in Sandusky, Ohio that owns and operates amusement parks in North America. Cedar Fair now owns 12 amusement parks, 11 operating in the United States, with one operating in Canada. Based on stock value Cedar Fair is the most successful amusement park chain behind Disney.

Contents

1 Properties

1.1 Amusement Parks
1.2 Water Parks

2 Trivia
3 External links

3.1 Cedar Fair Park Sites

Properties

Amusement Parks

Cedar Point, Cedar Fair's flagship park's logo.

Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio)
Dorney Park (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
Geauga Lake (Aurora, Ohio)
Knott's Berry Farm (Buena Park, California)
Michigan's Adventure (Muskegon, Michigan)
Paramount's Canada's Wonderland (Vaughan, Ontario, Canada)
Paramount's Carowinds (Charlotte, North Carolina)
Paramount's Great America (Santa Clara, California)
Paramount's Kings Dominion (Doswell, Virginia)
Paramount's Kings Island (Mason, Ohio)

Cedar Point's Soak City logo.

Worlds of Fun (Kansas City, Missouri)
Valleyfair! (Shakopee, Minnesota)

Water Parks

Boomerang Bay (Carowinds)
Boomerang Bay (Kings Island)
Boomerang Bay (Great America)
Knott's Soak City (Buena Park, California)
Knott's Soak City (Palm Springs, California)
Knott's Soak City (San Diego, California)

Carowinds' Boomerang Bay logo.

Soak City (Sandusky, Ohio)
Splash Works (Canada's Wonderland)
Oceans of Fun (Kansas City, Missouri)
Waterworks (Kings Dominion)
Whitewater Country (Valleyfair!)
Wildwater Adventure (Michigan's Adventure)
Wildwater Kingdom (Dorney Park)
Wildwater Kingdom (Geauga Lake)

Note: If the water park has the amusement park's name to which it belongs beside it, then the water park is free with amusement park admission

Trivia

Cedar Fair's name is constructed from the names of its first two parks, Cedar Point and Valleyfair.
Cedar Fair's current President and CEO is Richard Kinzel
Cedar Fair once managaed Camp Snoopy (now called The Park at MOA) in the Mall of America until 2005, when the Mall took over management of the park itself[link].
The purchase of Paramount Parks was announced on May 22, 2006,[link], and concluded with a cash transaction valued at $1.24 billion (USD) on June 30, 2006 [link] (Cedar Fair did recieve both Paramount movie/TV licenses (expires in 10 years) as well as Nickelodeon licenses (expires in 4 years)[link]
The Geauga Lake (former Six Flags Worlds of Adventure) purchase was valued at $145 million (USD) [link]
Cedar Fair operates 4 amusement parks that attract over 3 million vistors a year: Knott's Berry Farm, Kings Island, Canada's Wonderland, and the company's flagship park, Cedar Point.

External links

[Cedar Fair]

Cedar Fair Park Sites

'''[Knott's Soak City (Buena Park, California)]
'''[Knott's Soak City (Palm Springs, California)]
'''[Knott's Soak City (San Deigo, California)]
[Michigan's Adventure]
[Paramount's Canada's Wonderland]
[Paramount's Carowinds]
[Paramount's Great America]

[Paramount's Kings Dominion]
[Paramount's Kings Island]
'''[Soak City (Sandusky, Ohio)]
[Valleyfair!]
[Worlds of Fun]

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