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Big Dipper at RCDB. Big Dipper was a wooden roller coaster located at the defunct Geauga Lake amusement park in Bainbridge Township, Ohio. Originally opened in 1925 as Sky Rocket, it was renamed Clipper in the late 1940s, and eventually Big Dipper in 1969. It was the oldest operating roller coaster in Ohio and seventh-oldest in the United ...
- 65 ft (20 m)
- 1925
- 48 in (122 cm)
- 32 mph (51 km/h)
Sep 16, 2007 · Big Dipper was a wooden roller coaster at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio, USA. History. Originally opened in 1925 as Sky Rocket, it was renamed Clipper in the late 1940s and eventually Big Dipper in 1969. It was the oldest operating roller coaster in Ohio and seventh-oldest in the United States when it closed with the park on September 16, 2007. [1] .
Coaster: Big Dipper. Park: Geauga Lake - Aurora, Ohio (Removed) Built: 1926. Type: Wood. Manufacturer: Miller. Height: 65 feet. Length: 2,680 feet. Photo: Dave Jackson. Photo: Scott Short
Geauga Lake was an amusement park in Bainbridge Township and Aurora, Ohio. It was established in 1887, in what had been a local recreation area adjacent to a lake of the same name. The first amusement ride was added in 1889, and the park's first roller coaster – the Big Dipper – was built in 1925.
- 1887; 136 years ago
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