Correction: This image is actually the Shoot-the-Rapids ride in Frontier Town at Cedar Point; similar, but not the same as the Mill Race. |
The Mill Race, a log flume ride, opened in Cedar
Point for the 1963 season. It was only the second flume ride of its kind in the
United States. The ride cost $300,000 to build, and it was over 1200 feet long.
Boats shaped like logs carried riders down a 28 foot hill, after following a
winding track filled with water. On a
hot summer day, a ride on the Mill Race left riders cooled off by the water
splashing them as traveled rapidly down the final hill. The Mill Race closed in
1993, to make room for the Raptor.
To read more about the history of Cedar
Point, see the book Cedar Point: The Queen of American Watering Places,
by David W. and Francis (Amusement
Park Books, 1995), available at the Sandusky Library. You can see the Mill Race
in this aerial photograph of Cedar Point, taken by Thomas Root on May 25, 1968.
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