NEWLY OPENED AURORA PARK at Geauga Lake!

Hey guys I'm at Aurora Park at Geauga Lake. They opened last Sunday. It was their grand opening. There's still quite a few people here. I'm going to start by showing you the sign when you first pull in and I'm going to work my way into the park and we're going to talk about it. All right let's go walk around and see what we find. Before I do my walk around let's look at young Lydia's passes for just a second. This is the brand new Aurora Park at Geauga Lake so um this was the former Wild Water Kingdom side what used to be the SeaWorld side and they're not done yet with this park this is phase one but um they have reused this entrance here the teal entrance that was uh original to uh I believe that goes back to SeaWorld days um And if you guys have not seen it, I did an explore here when it was abandoned last year, last summer, June 2023, we did an urbex. We actually came in this way to start the urbex, and this was abandoned back then. Now it's not, and it's been repurposed. I think it's cool that they're using the building. The park seems to be well-received by people. There's so many people that have nostalgia for Geauga Lake, myself included, many of you included, that just grew up with the park. And some people complain about Aurora Park and say it's no Geauga Lake. Well, of course it's not. But what did you expect them to put up a whole amusement park? You know, this is how Geauga Lake started. It's just a park. And I do I could almost bet on it that they will be putting rides here eventually because they're the next phase phase two is going to involve a pool which is going to be reusing the old wave pool grand opening that was last week on Sunday looks really nice they did a great job the teal that reminds me of Geauga Lake the flowers match the sun match the art I like the The designs are very reminiscent. of old times very nostalgic this might be a ticket booth I don't know yeah they did a really nice job nice nice picnic tables yeah the roof's been redone beautiful the raging wolf bob car is here uh there's been people all over it so i haven't got to it yet but i don't know i wonder if like maybe they sell tickets think they're done so we're gonna look at this so first off they have Ping pong tables. Yeah this was a original Raging Wolf Bob car. That's the batman right there. Raging Wolf Bob's was a wooden roller coaster at Geauga Lake Park from 1988 to 2007. The coaster had a max height of 80 feet, a drop of 75 feet, and a max speed of 50. Miles per hour. The City of Aurora purchased this car in 2025 from the Euclid Beach Boys collection. It was restored by Rob and Troy Parsh of Amusement Preservation Museum. Last time I was on here was probably 2007. And I probably have sat in this very car. Oh my goodness. Check that out. Could you believe this? That's insane. This is insanity. You ever been on this one? What house is that? Yeah. Raging Wolf Bob's? Yeah. That's so many years ago. I might have been on there. I can't even remember the name. Restrooms. I don't know if these were already here. What in here? These look new. I don't know if they've been restored, but they look new. I'm going to give them an A+. This is my wheel. Wheel. I did. This is my wheelhouse right here. There's the clock. 1992. I remember when my uncle got that shirt. Really? 1992, yeah. I was, what, 7, 8? Sure. Yeah, I was like 7, 7. A lot of people here still, I mean, it's only been a week, so it's still brand new. See, I was in the early 2000s. That's when I was doing HTML. Yeah. One angel fire that. Oh, that'd be terrible. These guys drive like maniacs. Oh, oh. Okay. They just let me figure out. Ooh. Nice fur. I want to look at... What is this? It almost looks like a putt-putt or something. Oh, so this is like plans for a kid's area. The woodland adventure. Well, I suppose I could actually walk up to it instead of doing that. I think that's new. I don't think those rocks were already there. I'm pretty sure they weren't. Wait, this does look old. Now, I'm not very familiar with Wild Water Kingdom because I know it stayed open all the way up to 2016 after Jog-O-Lake closed, but I didn't go there. I did not go to Wild Water Kingdom after Jog-O-Lake closed. I went to it when it was with Jog-O-Lake, but this actually looks old, but when I did urbex here last year, I don't remember this. this has to be old because like look at this must have been like a little like pool or lazy river type of thing i guess you would say but yeah i don't remember that when we were doing they got caution tape on it but yeah that's definitely old we're not a little bit i must get out of here not supposed to be in there okay sorry guys they're definitely using the 90s colors Throughout the park. Which I think people appreciate that. I think... I think this is gonna be really good. Like I said, Jogger Lake started out this way, way back in the 1800s. So it's like a rebirth. And comment below if you guys think that there will eventually be rides here. I guarantee after that phase two, they put in, we're gonna look at that. That over there is the former wave pool. We're going to look at that in a second, uh, in a minute. Um, what's up with this? This random tree. Was this, like, busted? I don't know. That's there. Um, I could, I could almost guarantee they're going to start putting rides in here again. This was something. If you guys know, let me know what these, um, cylinders were from. I don't know exactly what it means, but, um, supports. It was something from the old park. Right here. They had Rondak chairs. Yeah, the grand opening was Sunday, October 25th, 2026. I'm wondering if this barrel was from old jungle. It kind of looks old. I don't know. Ooh, I like the shape of this. The way this is really well done. They're still really kind of working on it. But yeah, across there is apartments. Kayak rental. You run them with a QR code. Under two hours, 25. You need a membership. Well see that's actually pretty cool because then you don't have to buy your own kayak. They come with obviously safety life vests I think is what they're called and the pier. We'll go walk onto that one. I remember walking onto that one last year it was all the floor was falling in. Yep I remember this this was falling in, falling under. I was almost afraid to walk onto it. There's this whole new floor now. That has to be old, that cross. Here was a former wave. There's geese on it, that's crazy. I haven't been here since it was SeaWorld. So that was the wave pool. So we're gonna turn that into a pool, a regular pool. Just spoke to somebody who said this was SeaLion, when it was SeaWorld, this was a SeaLion show. I remember SeaWorld too much, but that sounds right. I think we've seen the park. All right, and that was the park. Let me know what you guys think. Would you tour Aurora Park? Would you spend any time here? Or do you think this is not cool? It's not juggle-like, don't bother. I think it's nice. If I lived closer to it, I'd probably come here more often, but I'm not that close to it. But It's a very nice park. I think they did good. I think they're doing it justice. They definitely honored it in certain ways with the teal and the pink and using what was already here. Oh, there's a beach coming here too. A beach, a pool, a kids area. Yeah, so let me know what you guys think and I'll see you in the next video.