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<title>Chippewa Lake Park - Chippewa Lake (Medina), OH</title>
<font color="#FF0000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="4">Some Bad News:</font>
<p align="center">About 5PM on Thursday, June 13, 2002, the </font><b>Chippewa Lake Park</b>
Ballroom, which has been standing idle, has burned down. The park closed in the late 70s and has sat dormant since then. Arson is
suspected.</font>
<big>The Park</big>Chippewa Lake Park was basically just abandoned with many of the
rides still standing. The park was home to 3 roller coasters - A Wild Mouse, A steel
kiddie coaster named the Little Dipper and a larger wooden coaster. The wood coaster was
earlier named the Big Dipper but was referred to as just "Coaster" in the later
years. The ride was built about 1924 or 1925 by Fred Pearce. It is amazing that a Tumble
Bug is still there considering how rare this ride is (only three in the US and one in the
UK).</small>
<small>There have been several locations listed for this park, usually as
Cleveland. It is actually located at Chippewa Lake and is near the towns of Medina and
Lodi, quite a bit Southwest of Cleveland. The park is due North of the juction of
Interstate 71 and Interstate 76. In my opinion, it is possible that the park was not a
Trolley Park but instead a Railroad Park, since the B&O Railroad runs directly behind
the park. <em>Joel Styer - Nov</small>
<big>State of the park in 1997</big>The following is a description of the park as it appeared in 1997 that was originally
posted on the rec.roller-coaster newsgroup. It accompanies the photos at the bottom of this page
and is used with permission from the author.</small></em></p>
<p><small>I was very excited to go into an abandoned amusement park. But in
retrospect, I am also a bit ashamed. In my eagerness to see the park up close, I
trespassed in a person's yard, and was probably technically trespassing in the park
itself, even though a neighbor said it would be OK. I understand that security around the
park has been increased in the past year, and I hope I didn't contribute to that.
While in the park, I also took some risks I probably shouldn't have. Some rides and
buildings were in a dangerous state of collapse, and I should have stayed away.<br>
<br>I can't quite say I regret going into the park. It was definitely a unique,
thrilling (but sad) experience. I'd love to do it again. But I won't unless
there is some kind of official tour. The neighbors of the park deserve more respect
and consideration than I gave them last time. <em>Dave Sandborg November 15, 1998</em><br>
<br>We had no real trouble finding the park. The lift hill and first drop of the wood coaster
were easily visible from outside. We could also see the ballroom building. When we started
walking down a nearby street hoping for a glimpse of other parts of the coaster, we got
into a bit of a chat with some of the locals. They indicated there wouldn't be any problem
with our getting into the park--"There's a way through the fence in Linda's back
yard." We later encountered Linda herself, who didn't seem to object to people
wandering in the park.
<br>There were quite a few buildings, in a variety of stages of decay. Some were almost
completely burnt down; it was hard to tell what these might have been. On the site of one
such building, we found some filing cabinets (with completely charred papers inside) and a
whole bunch of old cash registers. Possibly the administrative building?<br>
<br>The ballroom was still standing, and we were able to walk around gingerly inside (on any
wood floors, we had to be very careful to avoid rotten boards). In a room of the same
building were two Little Dipper cars (two seats per car), plus a tub from a ride I
couldn't identify. Inside the ballroom itself were a bunch of pieces from the old
miniature golf course, plus some very large speaker horns. Both of the long walls were
lined with desks and benches.<br>
<br>Near the ballroom were scattered a bunch of cups commemorating the park's centennial year:
"Chippewa Lake: Celebrate a century of fun this year." Some had dates on them. I
believe the dates were 1877-1977, but I could be mistaken. I believe the Coaster wasn't
running at this time; I seem to recall a local telling us it had stopped running by 1974.
It's sad to think that the park was certainly dying at its centennial; that may even have
been its last year of operation.<br>
<br>We also saw a ticket booth or two, a restroom building, and a maintenance shed. There was
a whole mess of stuff in that shed. I also recall what appeared to be an outdoor stage, a
building that may have been a picnic pavilion (it also seemed to have a stage), and a food
stand of some sort. One of the entrance gates was standing (there were at least three
entrances, since a sign mentioned a Gate 3). Towards the back of the park was a red
caboose. It seemed to be about in the best repair of anything around.<br>
<br>The Coaster ran with four-seater cars. The cars didn't seem to be coupled into complete
trains, but I'm guessing there were three cars per train. The cars could only be loaded on
one side, because the lap bar release mechanism blocked the other side. The lap bars were
unpadded metal, one-position, but seemed to go surprisingly low. The coaster used skid
brakes with Big Ol' Brake levers (I think there were four separate levers). The transfer
track was also manually operated. We got a good look at the undersides of the cars,
including the upstop wheels and safety dogs. I was a bit confused because the transfer
area didn't look like it accommodated the upstop wheels, and the cars sitting there didn't
seem to have them
<small>More Information on Chippewa Lake Park:</small>
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/theremaing2/chippewa.html">http://www.geocities.com/theremaing2/chippewa.html</a>
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