I love that you were able to find photos and footage of many of the things you found, presenting a wonderful “then and now” picture. Thanks for the video.
There was quite a few videos on this place on TH-cam. I looked them up. My father use to work there as a teenager. I was there once myself, don't remember much. It was still open. But not a lot left to it by then. That would have been sometime in the 70's.
Wow it's just so hard to do a Google search I am fighting the footage online. Give me a f****** break probably took the guy less than 5 minutes. Go and do a Google search for this for this area and you will find all the same pictures and more.
@assblood this coming from someone who calls their Channel ass blood. I'm sorry if I made fun of your little Hobby that's remind you of your childhood when you used to hide something and then make a treasure map for your friends to find LOL.. you're telling me to get a life when you're interested and put somebody down who is simply giving their opinion. Yeah it's just so exciting to waste a bunch of gas money driving to certain coordinates. Get out of the car walk not more then at the most a mile. Most of them are not very even far off the road. Then go find these spots where you really see nothing more then a ledger or something and maybe some bottles of water and some snacks. You sign your name saying that you've been there and what time. Maybe leave some snacks of your own or a little something and then off to the next. This is just so f****** fun if you were a little kid. Cuz my son got interested in this until we went on a road trip to find these. After about finding three pretty close together in Washington State. In western Washington. My son was completely bored with it and we turn the road trip into something completely different. In the 90s my band used to tour all around the United States and other countries. One of my bandmates used to subscribe to this magazine. In this magazine it told us of many spots throughout the u.s. that had these Geo casting coordinates. Same thing happened. We stopped at two or three of them saw how f****** lame they were and discontinued going to any more. I tried to tell my son when he has asked to do this later. That it was completely stupid and basically a waste of time. That my seven-year-old son likes finding things. So of course being the cool father that I am and knowing this was completely a waste of time. We took off to go find these only for him who is 7 years old. To realize himself that this was completely boring and a waste of time. By this time we were near the ocean in Westport in Washington State. So we just chartered a fishing boat and went fishing instead and had so much more fun. What it cost to go on that fishing boat I would have paid twice as much going to all the spots that my son wanted to go to in Washington and Oregon to find these stupid Geo casting sites. So I'm sorry that I put down your stupid little Hobby. It probably is fun and interesting for the brain dead like you. It must be so exciting for you to go to these spots & your name to The Ledger. Oh but you're saying my life is shity. I do things like hang glide and skydive. We ride motorcycles and jet skis and snowmobiles in the winter time. I dive for the local sheriff's department and now have taught my son. like this summer me and my son went to the Caribbean and we Scuba dived looking at ships that sunk hundreds of years ago. so you have fun with your life driving to these stupid places barely off the road. only to find this Geo casting spot simply to basically sign your name saying you've been there. wow that sounds so much more funner and so much more of a life then hang gliding or skydiving or scuba diving to a sunken pirate ship that's hundreds of years old. so you continue with your awesome Adventures Geo casting. and I will stick with my shity boring life LOL
@assblood you know you read every word. Also I'm really sorry you have such a small mind that you don't realize that there's something like talk-to-text feature. And also maybe someone like you who is as slow as you are using one finger it might take you 30 minutes to type all that. But someone like me on a computer that would take no more than a few minutes maybe 5 minutes tops using my phone. But I hate to disappoint you. But just like when I wrote this comment and just like I wrote the last comment I was simply using a talk-to-text feature that most Samsung or Apple phones have. And again you know you read every damn word just like you're going to read every word of this. If you didn't bother to read everything you wouldn't have bothered to reply. That's because you know my comment got to you. And I'm sure this won't be the end of it I bet you'll come back with some other moronic statement
@assblood and also you said that I'm beneath you intellectually, socially, and economically.. then you don't even use punctuation correctly and you run on your sentences. But you're such an intellect aren't you. Then why you just saying that really everybody else who reads this how much a moron you really are.
Love your videos. Your pace, your mic style, the sounds and sights you capture. Lots of tubers try to fill every second with information or talking. You seem to know how to let the nature or scene have its say. Look forward to every adventure you take us on. Thank you.
Admin Visser No offense to some people.. but some people act as if it’s a privilege to hear them speak lol. They don’t come up for air and take way too long to get to the purpose of the video. They also tend to post way too many videos. I think it comes from overall compulsion... Anyhow, that’s not the case with this awesome channel.
I was lucky enough to explore this place with my dad, mother and cousin back in 2001. The swinging cages were still there and they were my dad’s favorite ride back in the 60’s and he was actually able to get them to function as much as the overgrowth would allow. It’s too bad you didn’t make it there prior to that idiot kid setting that beautiful ballroom on fire. It was treacherous walking around in there but it was beautiful nonetheless. They tore the wooden coaster down in 2009 but I have videos taken by my mother of me climbing the lift hill. I went back numerous times over the years, the most recent with my stepson. The only selfie I have ever taken was me and him standing below the Ferris wheel. Interesting fact about that Ferris Wheel, it was the fastest in the state in it’s day. That tumble bug is one of only THREE left in existence and the damn thing has been rotting away for 41 years.
Chippewa Lake was acquired by Continental Business Enterprises in 1969, and the company developed plans to transform the park into more of a summer resort; these plans, however, drew very little public interest and funding and most of the plans were scrapped. The park would later close in 1978 - which was the park's centennial season - under the company's ownership, owing to factors like competition from nearby Cedar Point and the now defunct Geauga Lake amusement parks, as well as the decline of steel and rubber production in the surrounding areas. It was largely unknown to the public that the park's 100th season would be its last; the park closed rather secretly without any big media coverage or massive public outcry. When the park shut down, former owner Parker Beach made a request to his family that he be buried there when he died, to which his family agreed.[citation needed] The site where Beach's body is buried in the park is unknown. In the 2007 documentary, "Welcome Back Riders", at the very end, it said Be respectful if you try to find Parker Beach's Grave. Let him enjoy his park in peace. ...It's by the roller coaster.
Random fact: there actually used to be a railway that ran from Cleveland to this park that is also defunct. And also the son of the second owner Parker Beach was rumored to be buried somewhere on the site at his request to his family. Interesting place. Been on the lake many times and it's creepy as hell to see the rusty ferris wheel over the tree tops. Edit: the random fact is the railway. It was called the inter-urban. The part about Parker is a rumor. Does anyone remember reading???!
I grew up in Chippewa Lake, what a great place to have a childhood. The ferris wheel was advertised as the fastest in Ohio. The view of the lake was spectacular from the top. Too many memories to post here. Such a sad ending for a truly wonderful park. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
We used to go there too but why was it abandoned like that and blighted? When Geauga Lake closed they sold practically everything but did not leave the rest to rust away. I heard Chippewa Lake was sold to a developer & new homes were built there but obviously that was wrong information. Too bad they didn't make it a wildlife preserve or park.
I love the urinals just in the middle of the woods exposed. The aesthetics of abandoned places is so interesting to me. Between your channel and the Proper People I've learned and seen so many things and I appreciate you for that. I have started seeking out abandoned places for photography in large part due to your channel and I thank you for turning me on to this hobby!
Very well done. The viewer can feel the respect the person making this has. As others have said, no overblown narration, just enough words to convey what he was thinking. When he didn't know what something was, he said so rather than make something up. THIS is the way a TH-cam video should be put together. Well done sir.
Yes Chippewa Lake that’s the I was down there very very small like about five or 10 years old but I remember it and I’m 55 years old now so yes I do remember that Chippewa Lake amusement park.
As a youngster, growing up in the Cleveland area, we'd go to Chippewa Lake Amusement Park every summer. Good times! AND that was the single scariest (meaning REALLY FAST) Ferris Wheel of any amusement park of it's day. BUT still we'd go on it every single summer! This is a bittersweet video. Time, as they say, marches on. But those fun memories from over 50 years come back vividly! And they remain for us old-timers, a comfort!
This gentleman who puts these videos together is absolutely fantastic in my eyes! He has incredible knowledge about what he shows video of and takes you there as if you are there! Some of these things I wasn't even aware of in history until I started watching this gentleman's videos and I'm grateful for it! I'm not saying I'm smarter for it but I am a little more well informed now! 😀😁
I love the thorough presentation of your locations enhanced by the archival footage. No dramatic music and especially no staging. I have unsubbed from other exploration channels for shameless staging. Keep up the good work.
I love when you find old pictures or video to show what it used to look like. Really gives you a sense of age. I would be afraid to walk through all that brush. Not sure what poison sumac or ivy looks like.
We used to go their every year. It's pronounced mi-dine-a and you're at Chippewa lake 🙂 My first roller coaster is there. The house in the front had some awesome celebrities way back when. Dean Martin - all sorts of people. They stayed there and preformed all weekend. Miss it
We use to drive out there with our small children 20yrs ago just to look. I'm from Brady Lake Ohio, we had a Amusement Park at the lake as well. My grandparents built a summer home when it was 1st developed and my parents live there to this day. My father you to visit Chippewa as a child. In fact his band he's had since high school use to play at Chippewa lake. Many memories at that park. I grew up and worked at Geagua Lake Park. My kids grew up going as well. Are you familiar with Brady Lake Amusement Park or the Amusement park that was in Stow Ohio. Think it was called Silver Lake Park. Ohio had MANY Amusement parks in the Late 1800's, early 1900's I'm a 70's baby, my father and grandparents use to take us to the older parks when we were little. Conneaut Lake park on OH/PA border is probably the oldest park remaining that we still visit annually. I love ther history of the old parks!
The Discovery Channel did a series called “Life After Humans” about what happens to civilization after it is abandoned. 40 years of abandonment and this amusement park is covered by woods, nature reclaiming what man had built. Bottom line of every episode of “Life After Humans”: After 10,000 years there will be virtually no trace that man was ever here. Even concrete and steel will disintegrate and everything will be covered by dirt and overgrown with vegetation.
4/10/20 And after a few weeks of being told to stay at home... The air is clearer. The animals are alive and well. Humans ARE the problem on Mother Earth.
So interesting to see how nature takes over these long forgotten places you find. Thanks for sharing this and the Observatory last week..fun to google these places you take us to and find out what they were like in their prime. Enjoy your holiday weekend!
Now, that was a great explore! Loved the fact that it was really old and had many of the old rides I had ridden on in my youth. Thanks for the memories and for keeping places like this alive!
Your videos take me to a relaxing fun filled world of exploration. You are the Apex of all abandoned world videos. Your voice and narrations are a God given talent... Your video work as well. I like your face too.. so pleasant. Thank you for your great work.
When you pushed that part and it began swinging, in my head I thought in terms of a sci-fi film. Where the carnival music and voices of days gone by begin to be heard in the breeze, and then you go back in time. In a blink of the eye, the rusty beams and overgrown forest, is now back to it's original condition full of vibrant color and sweet smells. Children running past in joyous squeals with cotton candy, while parents follow after. You look around in amazement and then just moments into it, it all begins to be disappear, the voices fade away, leaving you bewildered as to what just happened. I should make a movie lol.
A long gone amusement park (West View Park) in Pittsburgh had that ride with the cages at 9:55. At one time they called it the "Alley Oop" (like the old song). Two people would stand in the cage facing each other and there was a bar between them. They would push and pull the bar and the goal was to swing the cage high enough to make the cage do a complete up and over circle and back down again. Your arms got a work out, lol.
I remember going there as a child for my dad's shop picnic.my favorite ride was the space ships near the waters edge. Explored it back in the early 2000s. Looking at Google maps most of it is housing development. I hope they didn't disturb the grave.
So sad to see that tumble bug rotted away. Here in Pennsylvania we have the last two still in operation one at kennywood park called the turtle and one at conneaut lake park still called the tumble bug. They are great rides!
I grew up 20 minutes from here. There used be a ballroom there. My mom graduated from Valley City and her high school prom was was in the ballroom. She graduated in 1977. She was sad when it burnt down and has described the building as beautiful. She also used to go there all the time as a kid. One of my friends from high school had a horse farm just outside of chippewa lake and we used to walk over to town all the time. Chippewa lake also has some kind of boating or rowing competition around the 4th of July, can't exactly remember. And we always wanted to sneak into the abandoned park during the 4th of July fireworks.
Yes, those objects that still moved looked like the counter weights for a ride that was like a caged swing that you stood inside and moved by swaying. You included some old film from days gone by! Great video, great adventure! Thanks for taking us along!
I grew up in Ohio but can't recall ever hearing of this place. As a kid my amusement park was LeSourdsville, located just north of Hamilton on Route 4. It opened in 1922 and closed down forever in 2002. Went there many times with family and friends. It was great fun. Enjoyed your video.
Because you realize that this place REALLY MEANT SOMETHING NICE FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE for a very long time...and that it just...slowly vanished...like all of us will one day
That Ferris wheel is so well hidden. It reminds me of when you went to the old drive in movie site, how the screen was hard to pick out at first, but it became clear as you approached it.
This reminds me very much of an amusement park that I recall my family and I driving past when I was very young. I vauguely remember it being operational as I wanted to go on the rides seeing it from the highway. Then at some point after within a few years at least it was closed and abandoned, stayed that way for years. Its condition reminded me of this place in your video thought it was a bit more held up as it was a very small park and is near a busy highway so vandalism was minimal. It was eventually torn down and now that area has hotels, restaurants, etc, ended up working at the theater there for about 5 years. There's something fascinating about exploring abandoned places that once were busy.
I visited Chippewa Lake and Idora back in the day. I took photos, but didn't have a video camera back then. The wooden coaster was still up at Chippewa Lake when I visited and that was pretty awesome! Idora still had 2 wooden coasters (the WildCat & Jack Rabbit), as well as the ball room. Unfortunately, nothing is left at Idora, now. Thanks for sharing.
Cool video. There's something captivating about many abandoned structures, but amusement parks, especially when nature is so determined to reclaim the land they sit on, offer some of the most interesting themes for a video.
Fascinating. At one time Ohio had several small amusement parks here and there. I vaguely remember Buckeye Lake as a child. Closed in the 1960s I think. Never knew there was a park in Medina. Probably couldn't compete with Cedar Point. Hope you didn't get poison ivy, dude. Thanks for sharing.
I wish communities still had little amusement parks. They were everywhere back in the day. Even if they only had one good woody coaster & a few rides, they still would be fun & close by to nearly everyone.
I might be mistaken, but that ferris wheel looks like a very early Eli Bridge model. It would be worth restoring considering Eli Bridge is still in business and parts are still available. 7:15 you are correct, that's an Allan Herschell little dipper/ kiddie coaster. Would be awesome to save some of these!
I just recently found your channel and subscribed. I enjoy seeing old abandoned places/ points of interest - especially amusement parks. You do amazing narrations in your videos! Great video!!!
Hi, kind of an eerie place without the amusements all operating and the sound of children's laughter. Still a very cool place to see how things were back in the day and how they are now. Great research, thanks for sharing. x
I especially liked the research you did and the pictures and footage from back when the amusement park was in operation, and showing us what everything looks like now.
Love everything about your videos. You can tell you put a lot of work into them. Some people just show the ruins but you go a step further and show what it looked like before it fell into disrepair and I love the history.
This is a wonderful video. Something about abandoned amusement parks that is quite magical. You find such amazing locations, BUT then you have states that are bigger than my entire country - you have enough space in the US for about 50 times more abandoned sites than here, and still plenty of room for expanding cities without knocking anything down.
Chris, How do you find out about stuff like this? Amazing, loved it. Thanks for including the old footage of the park. It's a shame that it was allowed to go to ruin. I guess the Earth reclaims everything eventually. I worry about you exploring some of these spaces on your own. Be Safe. I worked at Conneaut Lake Amusement Park, in PA, the summer of 1980. So have a fondness for them.
I like watching your vids more than other urban explorers vids because you explain more and give me more info about the places you're checking out. Thank you.
Chipewa lake was a awesome amusement park back in the day used have my grandfather's general motors picnics there then it moved to cedar point. The ballroom back in the day used to hold some prety amazing artists back in the day. I remember Cleveland punk band the dead boys playing there in the early 70s. On a flatbed trailer haha good times
I operated a Ferris wheel like that while I was in High School from 1964 to 68. Made by Eli Bridge Co, Now Eli Big Wheel co. Still in business. That gadget with the color specks was a cable guide. There was a long endless loop cable (wire rope) that wrapped around the 2 big wheels you saw,then wrapped around the circumference of the wheel in those guides. Daily, as the wheel turned I had to apply a gob of some special sticky tar like stuff ro the cable, so it would not slip. Those guides had a layer of big hemp rope in the bottom to help grip the cable. Also had to climb the towers and oil the big axel where it rode the towers. Ours was built in 1923, and was originally powered by a Star automobile engine, mounted on an iron wheeled carraige and connected to the wheel by a big flat belt. That engine had died at some point, and my boss had retro fitted it with a Model A engine. We had a throttle wire we could pull for extra power to get fat riders up the hill if needed. Best teen ager job ever! Somehow, I don't see todays' youth being capable of that much responsibility. I was 14 when I started operating the wheel.
I love that you were able to find photos and footage of many of the things you found, presenting a wonderful “then and now” picture. Thanks for the video.
There was quite a few videos on this place on TH-cam. I looked them up. My father use to work there as a teenager. I was there once myself, don't remember much. It was still open. But not a lot left to it by then. That would have been sometime in the 70's.
Wow it's just so hard to do a Google search I am fighting the footage online. Give me a f****** break probably took the guy less than 5 minutes. Go and do a Google search for this for this area and you will find all the same pictures and more.
@assblood this coming from someone who calls their Channel ass blood. I'm sorry if I made fun of your little Hobby that's remind you of your childhood when you used to hide something and then make a treasure map for your friends to find LOL.. you're telling me to get a life when you're interested and put somebody down who is simply giving their opinion. Yeah it's just so exciting to waste a bunch of gas money driving to certain coordinates. Get out of the car walk not more then at the most a mile. Most of them are not very even far off the road. Then go find these spots where you really see nothing more then a ledger or something and maybe some bottles of water and some snacks. You sign your name saying that you've been there and what time. Maybe leave some snacks of your own or a little something and then off to the next. This is just so f****** fun if you were a little kid. Cuz my son got interested in this until we went on a road trip to find these. After about finding three pretty close together in Washington State. In western Washington. My son was completely bored with it and we turn the road trip into something completely different. In the 90s my band used to tour all around the United States and other countries. One of my bandmates used to subscribe to this magazine. In this magazine it told us of many spots throughout the u.s. that had these Geo casting coordinates. Same thing happened. We stopped at two or three of them saw how f****** lame they were and discontinued going to any more. I tried to tell my son when he has asked to do this later. That it was completely stupid and basically a waste of time. That my seven-year-old son likes finding things. So of course being the cool father that I am and knowing this was completely a waste of time. We took off to go find these only for him who is 7 years old. To realize himself that this was completely boring and a waste of time. By this time we were near the ocean in Westport in Washington State. So we just chartered a fishing boat and went fishing instead and had so much more fun. What it cost to go on that fishing boat I would have paid twice as much going to all the spots that my son wanted to go to in Washington and Oregon to find these stupid Geo casting sites. So I'm sorry that I put down your stupid little Hobby. It probably is fun and interesting for the brain dead like you. It must be so exciting for you to go to these spots & your name to The Ledger. Oh but you're saying my life is shity. I do things like hang glide and skydive. We ride motorcycles and jet skis and snowmobiles in the winter time. I dive for the local sheriff's department and now have taught my son. like this summer me and my son went to the Caribbean and we Scuba dived looking at ships that sunk hundreds of years ago. so you have fun with your life driving to these stupid places barely off the road. only to find this Geo casting spot simply to basically sign your name saying you've been there. wow that sounds so much more funner and so much more of a life then hang gliding or skydiving or scuba diving to a sunken pirate ship that's hundreds of years old. so you continue with your awesome Adventures Geo casting. and I will stick with my shity boring life LOL
@assblood you know you read every word. Also I'm really sorry you have such a small mind that you don't realize that there's something like talk-to-text feature. And also maybe someone like you who is as slow as you are using one finger it might take you 30 minutes to type all that. But someone like me on a computer that would take no more than a few minutes maybe 5 minutes tops using my phone. But I hate to disappoint you. But just like when I wrote this comment and just like I wrote the last comment I was simply using a talk-to-text feature that most Samsung or Apple phones have. And again you know you read every damn word just like you're going to read every word of this. If you didn't bother to read everything you wouldn't have bothered to reply. That's because you know my comment got to you. And I'm sure this won't be the end of it I bet you'll come back with some other moronic statement
@assblood and also you said that I'm beneath you intellectually, socially, and economically.. then you don't even use punctuation correctly and you run on your sentences. But you're such an intellect aren't you. Then why you just saying that really everybody else who reads this how much a moron you really are.
Love your videos. Your pace, your mic style, the sounds and sights you capture. Lots of tubers try to fill every second with information or talking. You seem to know how to let the nature or scene have its say. Look forward to every adventure you take us on. Thank you.
Admin Visser hear, hear
Admin Visser - Well said 👏
I agree
I agree! Great video... not overly narrated. There is beauty in “space”
Admin Visser No offense to some people.. but some people act as if it’s a privilege to hear them speak lol. They don’t come up for air and take way too long to get to the purpose of the video. They also tend to post way too many videos. I think it comes from overall compulsion... Anyhow, that’s not the case with this awesome channel.
A friend of mine visited this place with his family in 1965, when he was 12. He’s very nostalgic about this and all the fun he had.
It was a great place. The dance hall building was a beautiful old building that should still be standing and used today. It was a great place.
Went there many times in the 1950's. Lived in Olmsted Falls and was allways excited when our family went there.
When I was a kid I lived in Berea and my Aunt and Uncle lived in Chippewa. I've had thoughts of buying a place there.
I was lucky enough to explore this place with my dad, mother and cousin back in 2001. The swinging cages were still there and they were my dad’s favorite ride back in the 60’s and he was actually able to get them to function as much as the overgrowth would allow. It’s too bad you didn’t make it there prior to that idiot kid setting that beautiful ballroom on fire. It was treacherous walking around in there but it was beautiful nonetheless. They tore the wooden coaster down in 2009 but I have videos taken by my mother of me climbing the lift hill. I went back numerous times over the years, the most recent with my stepson. The only selfie I have ever taken was me and him standing below the Ferris wheel. Interesting fact about that Ferris Wheel, it was the fastest in the state in it’s day. That tumble bug is one of only THREE left in existence and the damn thing has been rotting away for 41 years.
The best thing in this comment is that you’ve only taken one selfie, bless you!!
It was fun to explore as a kid, it was really fun before the ballroom fire, did you explore the old Beach house?
Love the footage of it in operation to compare to how it sits now!
Amazing how fast nature takes over if left alone
Nature will overtake anything man has built if not not maintained.
It’s been 40 years, but looks like it’s been untouched for 100. Nature is amazing
But what’s more amazing is he said parts of it had been cleared 20 years ago when the property was bought.
@@99ramairgt they actually cleared all the trees in this property back in 2013 this is only 6 years of growth.
@@jeremyrouth557 not 20 more like 6 years.
Chippewa Lake was acquired by Continental Business Enterprises in 1969, and the company developed plans to transform the park into more of a summer resort; these plans, however, drew very little public interest and funding and most of the plans were scrapped. The park would later close in 1978 - which was the park's centennial season - under the company's ownership, owing to factors like competition from nearby Cedar Point and the now defunct Geauga Lake amusement parks, as well as the decline of steel and rubber production in the surrounding areas. It was largely unknown to the public that the park's 100th season would be its last; the park closed rather secretly without any big media coverage or massive public outcry. When the park shut down, former owner Parker Beach made a request to his family that he be buried there when he died, to which his family agreed.[citation needed] The site where Beach's body is buried in the park is unknown. In the 2007 documentary, "Welcome Back Riders", at the very end, it said Be respectful if you try to find Parker Beach's Grave. Let him enjoy his park in peace. ...It's by the roller coaster.
RayinPa U.S.A. Thank you for citing the documentary, I was unaware. Tremendously enjoyed watching it.
I'm taking a shovel, will let you know what is by the rollercoaster...just kidding
@Fuzzy Butkus this is Chippewa lake get a grip
@@NoirAngel921 he's there
@Fuzzy Butkus its been closed since the late 80's /early 90's
"Urine luck!"
Wrong! Just wrong Chris! 🤣
The vintage films you show really add to the experience too, keep up the great work!!
Random fact: there actually used to be a railway that ran from Cleveland to this park that is also defunct. And also the son of the second owner Parker Beach was rumored to be buried somewhere on the site at his request to his family. Interesting place. Been on the lake many times and it's creepy as hell to see the rusty ferris wheel over the tree tops.
Edit: the random fact is the railway. It was called the inter-urban. The part about Parker is a rumor.
Does anyone remember reading???!
Wow. So, he is supposedly still buried out there ?
@@shaunclifton5281 no he got up and left a couple weeks ago. Needed a new scene.
@@bradenmyers151 Familes DO change grave locations if there are any descendants left.
@@shaunclifton5281 I know man, I was just messing around with you. If I upset you, I apologize.
@@bradenmyers151 Dude, you just made me laugh so hard. 😂👏👏👏
I grew up in Chippewa Lake, what a great place to have a childhood. The ferris wheel was advertised as the fastest in Ohio. The view of the lake was spectacular from the top. Too many memories to post here. Such a sad ending for a truly wonderful park. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
We used to go there too but why was it abandoned like that and blighted? When Geauga Lake closed they sold practically everything but did not leave the rest to rust away. I heard Chippewa Lake was sold to a developer & new homes were built there but obviously that was wrong information. Too bad they didn't make it a wildlife preserve or park.
Cbus here. What was this place called??
@@Julzy20032000 The park in the video was Chippewa Lake Park
@@halapino5473 was it close to the old Geaga Lake Waterpark?
Chippewa Lake was probably 40 or 50 miles southwest of Geauga Lake
I SUBSCRIBED because of your way of describing the findings. You are down to earth and very likable, thank you.
Memories of happiness,haunted by time. Love the vintage footage editing. Great video.
As always, you have done a fantastic job locating the unusual! Thanks for sharing!!!
I love the urinals just in the middle of the woods exposed. The aesthetics of abandoned places is so interesting to me. Between your channel and the Proper People I've learned and seen so many things and I appreciate you for that. I have started seeking out abandoned places for photography in large part due to your channel and I thank you for turning me on to this hobby!
All the metal looks like art especially with nature growing on it! Beautiful thank you!
Very well done. The viewer can feel the respect the person making this has. As others have said, no overblown narration, just enough words to convey what he was thinking. When he didn't know what something was, he said so rather than make something up. THIS is the way a TH-cam video should be put together. Well done sir.
Yes Chippewa Lake that’s the I was down there very very small like about five or 10 years old but I remember it and I’m 55 years old now so yes I do remember that Chippewa Lake amusement park.
Absolutely AWESOME video. I love how you incorporated some original footage of the place when it was open.
AND, I love that you find the old photos of the place you're exploring back in its heyday.
As a youngster, growing up in the Cleveland area, we'd go to Chippewa Lake Amusement Park every summer. Good times! AND that was the single scariest (meaning REALLY FAST) Ferris Wheel of any amusement park of it's day. BUT still we'd go on it every single summer! This is a bittersweet video. Time, as they say, marches on. But those fun memories from over 50 years come back vividly! And they remain for us old-timers, a comfort!
This gentleman who puts these videos together is absolutely fantastic in my eyes! He has incredible knowledge about what he shows video of and takes you there as if you are there! Some of these things I wasn't even aware of in history until I started watching this gentleman's videos and I'm grateful for it! I'm not saying I'm smarter for it but I am a little more well informed now! 😀😁
Makes a huge plus with your cuts to actual park footage film. Thanks the the exploration 👍🏻
Love the sound of the bird in the background. Excellent cinematography.
The flash back to the old footage really paints a complete story. Thank you for sharing!
I love the thorough presentation of your locations enhanced by the archival footage. No dramatic music and especially no staging. I have unsubbed from other exploration channels for shameless staging. Keep up the good work.
I love when you find old pictures or video to show what it used to look like. Really gives you a sense of age. I would be afraid to walk through all that brush. Not sure what poison sumac or ivy looks like.
We used to go their every year. It's pronounced mi-dine-a and you're at Chippewa lake 🙂
My first roller coaster is there.
The house in the front had some awesome celebrities way back when. Dean Martin - all sorts of people. They stayed there and preformed all weekend. Miss it
Not too long ago a horror movie was filmed there. Honestly don't remember the name though
It was called closed for the season
Echoes of a simpler time still resounding through the years...
It was great to be a kid wasn't it?
The birds calling really added to the loneliness, great segment. Looks like plenty of poison ivy around. You have really good videos.
We use to drive out there with our small children 20yrs ago just to look. I'm from Brady Lake Ohio, we had a Amusement Park at the lake as well. My grandparents built a summer home when it was 1st developed and my parents live there to this day. My father you to visit Chippewa as a child. In fact his band he's had since high school use to play at Chippewa lake. Many memories at that park. I grew up and worked at Geagua Lake Park. My kids grew up going as well. Are you familiar with Brady Lake Amusement Park or the Amusement park that was in Stow Ohio. Think it was called Silver Lake Park. Ohio had MANY Amusement parks in the Late 1800's, early 1900's
I'm a 70's baby, my father and grandparents use to take us to the older parks when we were little. Conneaut Lake park on OH/PA border is probably the oldest park remaining that we still visit annually. I love ther history of the old parks!
I went to conneaut lake Park in the late 60s.still in operation.
The Discovery Channel did a series called “Life After Humans” about what happens to civilization after it is abandoned.
40 years of abandonment and this amusement park is covered by woods, nature reclaiming what man had built.
Bottom line of every episode of “Life After Humans”: After 10,000 years there will be virtually no trace that man was ever here. Even concrete and steel will disintegrate and everything will be covered by dirt and overgrown with vegetation.
Yes....and the earth will be healed!
SUE BENNETT Well, except for the near permanent pollution. But eventually that will go away too.
4/10/20
And after a few weeks of being told to stay at home...
The air is clearer. The animals are alive and well.
Humans ARE the problem on Mother Earth.
well guess what WE AINT FUCKING LEAVIN
@@supercoolyguy And you perhaps learn what personal responsibility is! 😂😂
So interesting to see how nature takes over these long forgotten places you find. Thanks for sharing this and the Observatory last week..fun to google these places you take us to and find out what they were like in their prime. Enjoy your holiday weekend!
Great job editing, love the old footage inserts. Thank you
Now, that was a great explore! Loved the fact that it was really old and had many of the old rides I had ridden on in my youth. Thanks for the memories and for keeping places like this alive!
Your videos take me to a relaxing fun filled world of exploration. You are the Apex of all abandoned world videos. Your voice and narrations are a God given talent... Your video work as well. I like your face too.. so pleasant. Thank you for your great work.
Thanks Susan, much appreciated
I'm so happy to tell ya!
When you pushed that part and it began swinging, in my head I thought in terms of a sci-fi film. Where the carnival music and voices of days gone by begin to be heard in the breeze, and then you go back in time. In a blink of the eye, the rusty beams and overgrown forest, is now back to it's original condition full of vibrant color and sweet smells. Children running past in joyous squeals with cotton candy, while parents follow after. You look around in amazement and then just moments into it, it all begins to be disappear, the voices fade away, leaving you bewildered as to what just happened. I should make a movie lol.
That's good, you should be a writer.
I just landed on your channel by accident, but I am loving it. I want to stay up all night watching your videos! 👍
My gosh how fast nature reclaims. These great videos keep me inspired to do more yard work. At least I don't have to worry about the graffiti 😆
A long gone amusement park (West View Park) in Pittsburgh had that ride with the cages at 9:55. At one time they called it the "Alley Oop" (like the old song). Two people would stand in the cage facing each other and there was a bar between them. They would push and pull the bar and the goal was to swing the cage high enough to make the cage do a complete up and over circle and back down again. Your arms got a work out, lol.
I remember going there as a child for my dad's shop picnic.my favorite ride was the space ships near the waters edge. Explored it back in the early 2000s. Looking at Google maps most of it is housing development. I hope they didn't disturb the grave.
I love to see abandoned amusement parks Taken over by nature I think it's beautiful
I would like to see them back the way they were. They were beautiful places.
Seeing the old footage of the park when it was open is like seeing a ghost. Very cool touch to this video.
I just love your work. The before and after makes it more meaningful. Thank you for what you do.
😮 you are in my side yard! I would never have known about these amazing finds!
Did you go and visit? I wish there was more abandoned stuff near my town, I'd be all over it lol
So sad to see that tumble bug rotted away. Here in Pennsylvania we have the last two still in operation one at kennywood park called the turtle and one at conneaut lake park still called the tumble bug. They are great rides!
I was thinking the same thing about the turtle. Have ridden many times. Grandparents grew up across the river in Braddock and Rankin.
I grew up 20 minutes from here. There used be a ballroom there. My mom graduated from Valley City and her high school prom was was in the ballroom. She graduated in 1977. She was sad when it burnt down and has described the building as beautiful. She also used to go there all the time as a kid. One of my friends from high school had a horse farm just outside of chippewa lake and we used to walk over to town all the time. Chippewa lake also has some kind of boating or rowing competition around the 4th of July, can't exactly remember. And we always wanted to sneak into the abandoned park during the 4th of July fireworks.
NATURE IS AMAZING..TAKING LAND BACK!
What a good video so many good memories probably made there by family's. I found it heart breaking that its like that now
The overgrowth looks much older than the early 2000s. I agree with the OP who said it closed it 1978.
Chippewa lake yes I went to the park when I was wee. It was big fun I still remember those days❤
I love all the old places and how it looks now!!!😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉Thanks!!!
3:57 - "Leaves of three, let it be."
I was thinking the same thing. Absolutely horrible amount of poison ivy in there. "Hairy rope, don't be a dope".
Yes, those objects that still moved looked like the counter weights for a ride that was like a caged swing that you stood inside and moved by swaying. You included some old film from days gone by! Great video, great adventure! Thanks for taking us along!
I grew up in Ohio but can't recall ever hearing of this place. As a kid my amusement park was LeSourdsville, located just north of Hamilton on Route 4. It opened in 1922 and closed down forever in 2002. Went there many times with family and friends. It was great fun. Enjoyed your video.
Why is it so sad to see abandoned amusement parks? 😢
For me its something that was a big part of my childhood and all the smaller ones are going away .
Because you realize that this place REALLY MEANT SOMETHING NICE FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE for a very long time...and that it just...slowly vanished...like all of us will one day
I think they're beautiful
Memories of happiness.
Because your childhood is gone forevermore, and slowly, the places you had some of the best times of your life will disappear, too.
neat seeing those old ruins
Very cool. My mom worked there during the summer when she was in high school and college. She told me lots of stories from that time.
My Aunt, Uncle and cousins used to live in Chippewa. When we would visit them we would walk to the park and have a very good time.
That Ferris wheel is so well hidden. It reminds me of when you went to the old drive in movie site, how the screen was hard to pick out at first, but it became clear as you approached it.
This reminds me very much of an amusement park that I recall my family and I driving past when I was very young. I vauguely remember it being operational as I wanted to go on the rides seeing it from the highway. Then at some point after within a few years at least it was closed and abandoned, stayed that way for years. Its condition reminded me of this place in your video thought it was a bit more held up as it was a very small park and is near a busy highway so vandalism was minimal. It was eventually torn down and now that area has hotels, restaurants, etc, ended up working at the theater there for about 5 years. There's something fascinating about exploring abandoned places that once were busy.
My wife went there as a child during the Summer. They would rent a cabin and stay for a week. This was in the 1960’s. She loved it.
Nice tour. I love old amusement parks and it is great that you add the archived footage as well. I’d give that 👍👍
I always wanted to go there when I lived in Akron, glad to see you covered it. Awesome video thanks for the history.
I visited Chippewa Lake and Idora back in the day. I took photos, but didn't have a video camera back then. The wooden coaster was still up at Chippewa Lake when I visited and that was pretty awesome! Idora still had 2 wooden coasters (the WildCat & Jack Rabbit), as well as the ball room. Unfortunately, nothing is left at Idora, now.
Thanks for sharing.
Cool video. There's something captivating about many abandoned structures, but amusement parks, especially when nature is so determined to reclaim the land they sit on, offer some of the most interesting themes for a video.
Fascinating. At one time Ohio had several small amusement parks here and there. I vaguely remember Buckeye Lake as a child. Closed in the 1960s I think. Never knew there was a park in Medina. Probably couldn't compete with Cedar Point. Hope you didn't get poison ivy, dude. Thanks for sharing.
That ferris wheel covered in vine looks so cool and ominous at the same time.
1:01
"In case you are looking for a bathroom.......
*URINE* luck!!"
That track is amazing and looks so cool going through the trees!
it's cool the way nature reclaims everything.
I wish communities still had little amusement parks. They were everywhere back in the day. Even if they only had one good woody coaster & a few rides, they still would be fun & close by to nearly everyone.
I might be mistaken, but that ferris wheel looks like a very early Eli Bridge model. It would be worth restoring considering Eli Bridge is still in business and parts are still available. 7:15 you are correct, that's an Allan Herschell little dipper/ kiddie coaster. Would be awesome to save some of these!
I just recently found your channel and subscribed. I enjoy seeing old abandoned places/ points of interest - especially amusement parks. You do amazing narrations in your videos! Great video!!!
Hi, kind of an eerie place without the amusements all operating and the sound of children's laughter. Still a very cool place to see how things were back in the day and how they are now. Great research, thanks for sharing. x
I especially liked the research you did and the pictures and footage from back when the amusement park was in operation, and showing us what everything looks like now.
Love everything about your videos. You can tell you put a lot of work into them. Some people just show the ruins but you go a step further and show what it looked like before it fell into disrepair and I love the history.
Love that you find these places of yesteryear. You’re a modern day Huell Howser👍
This is a wonderful video. Something about abandoned amusement parks that is quite magical. You find such amazing locations, BUT then you have states that are bigger than my entire country - you have enough space in the US for about 50 times more abandoned sites than here, and still plenty of room for expanding cities without knocking anything down.
Wow it is so cool you can look at that old ferris wheel and see cool furniture. I think the same way when I look at old junk.
Great Vid Man! What a feeling it must of been filming this up close....I loved how U matched up the old footage with each ride found! Amazing
I love your videos, but they're kind of sad in a way too.(: Look forward to where you'll take us next. Thank You, Teresa
I promise the next one will be a happy place!
That was awesome to see Americana and as it is being reabsorbed by Earth!
Chris, How do you find out about stuff like this? Amazing, loved it. Thanks for including the old footage of the park. It's a shame that it was allowed to go to ruin. I guess the Earth reclaims everything eventually. I worry about you exploring some of these spaces on your own. Be Safe. I worked at Conneaut Lake Amusement Park, in PA, the summer of 1980. So have a fondness for them.
My dad use to go to that amusement park and he is 76!! There is a pair of bald eagles that calls that lake home!
What joy people had in this park? Awesome!
I am amazed at how the trees would actually grow into, and overlap the metal. As if to say this is my area now. What a find.
Mother Nature always wins, fortunately.
Your videos are brilliant, but most of all it’s the respect you show to the places you go too, good work keep it up.
That was really cool. So beautiful to see. Thanks for sharing. The sound of nature you caught in the backround was so very clear.
I can't help but notice how cute you are. thanks for these great videos .
I like watching your vids more than other urban explorers vids because you explain more and give me more info about the places you're checking out. Thank you.
Amazing, I love how nature made it beautiful again. I'm not sure if beautiful is the right word . But truly architecture and nature beautiful.
Chipewa lake was a awesome amusement park back in the day used have my grandfather's general motors picnics there then it moved to cedar point. The ballroom back in the day used to hold some prety amazing artists back in the day. I remember Cleveland punk band the dead boys playing there in the early 70s. On a flatbed trailer haha good times
Nature always takes back what is hers. Great video.
I operated a Ferris wheel like that while I was in High School from 1964 to 68. Made by Eli Bridge Co, Now Eli Big Wheel co. Still in business. That gadget with the color specks was a cable guide. There was a long endless loop cable (wire rope) that wrapped around the 2 big wheels you saw,then wrapped around the circumference of the wheel in those guides. Daily, as the wheel turned I had to apply a gob of some special sticky tar like stuff ro the cable, so it would not slip. Those guides had a layer of big hemp rope in the bottom to help grip the cable. Also had to climb the towers and oil the big axel where it rode the towers. Ours was built in 1923, and was originally powered by a Star automobile engine, mounted on an iron wheeled carraige and connected to the wheel by a big flat belt. That engine had died at some point, and my boss had retro fitted it with a Model A engine. We had a throttle wire we could pull for extra power to get fat riders up the hill if needed. Best teen ager job ever! Somehow, I don't see todays' youth being capable of that much responsibility. I was 14 when I started operating the wheel.
Cool video. I looked this park up on Wikipedia. A former owner of the park, Parker Beach, is buried in an unknown location within the park.
Excellent.. the old footage mixed in is unexpected and fascinating. You really spoil us man ! Time travel !
A shame. Creepy and sad. But interesting to see.
It’s awesome how with time nature will reclaim everything! This video is a lot like the Discovery series “Life after People”!