Cedar Point: New Area, Restaurants, and Festival

Greetings readers!!!!

So today I bring news out of Cedar Point with updates on dining and a festival plan.  I have made a nice little outline for everyone to read; it was actually how I wrote it up and it just makes sense to write it up that way.

So I'll start with the new area:

I grabbed this from Cedar Point's website

Forbidden Frontier on Adventure Island

• Replacing Dinosaurs Alive
• Entrance is through former Shoot the Rapids station
• Unlock puzzles and physical challenges
• Interact with characters
• Multiple different endings depending on what secrets are discovered

Honestly it sounds like an outdoor escape room to me with the puzzles and challenges and secrets.  Usually things like this don't interest me, but I might give this shot considering there are multiple endings and ways to figure things out.

Next up is the two new restaurants:

Cropped from Cedar Point website

BackBeatQue

• Located at the previous site of the Witches Wheel; near the Magnum XL-200 park entrance.
• Smokehouse Barbecue
• Live Music
• Outdoor Dining Space
• All food is made from scratch
• Will have 2 or 3 smokers for meat

Carrie is excited for this since she LOVES barbecue while I'm okay with it.  Not a huge fan, but that's mostly because I don't like messy food (I'm weird like that).  Although if majority wins we'll absolutely try it out.

Cropped from Cedar Point website

Hugo's Italian Kitchen

• Replacing Midway Market
• Traditional Italian fare and desserts
• Located next to Raptor
• Gas-grilled and Open flamed brick pizza oven
• Hand made pasta

Since Carrie and I are both Italian this one sounds pretty awesome although I was a fan of the Midway Market and am sad to see it go, but it's nice that CP is updating it's dining options.  Also, both of these restaurants will be on Cedar Point's Dining Plan.

Finally the festival:

Cropped from Cedar Point website

Frontier Festival

• Brew & BBQ will be incorporated into this new festival
• Old west type street festival
• Featuring local artisans
• Will have kid's crafts and games
• Continuous live entertainment
• Food and drink outside of the Brew & BBQ food
• Extra fee for food and drink cards
• Open daily on June 7th to 30th from 4pm to 10pm

We are SUPER excited about this because Carrie and I killed the food and different drinks last year and greatly enjoyed the Brew & BBQ fest that we're both excited to see how Cedar Point is going to update this.

 

I'm honestly glad to see Cedar Point updating and trying new things because I feel like for the last couple of years they seem to have been riding on their name and being the "Roller Coast" blah blah blah.  Since we are a whole 3 hours away from Sandusky everyone can rest assured that ISI will be checking it again this year.

Best wishes ISI readers!!  

Steel Curtain Update 2/26/19

Hello my peeps!!!

Scratch that, I should never say that again.

I hope that this month has been kind to every single one of you because it's been pretty nice to us here at ISI.  I've got an update for everyone on Kennywood's Steel Curtain; it looks like construction is going at a nice rate over in Homestead/West Mifflin area.  I've pulled some photos from Kennywood's facebook page for everyone to view.

As you can see the building is coming along nicely; especially considering the weird ass weather we've been having here in Pittsburgh these last couple of weeks.  There are just about 10 weeks until Kennywood's opening day on May 4, 2019 for the general public and based on statements made on their Facebook page Steel Curtain is still expected to be under construction.  As much as all those twists and turns are going to screw with my stomach I am still excited to ride this. 

My favorite picture is the long one which was taken from the top of the Racer, but I am bias since the Racer is my favorite coaster in Kennywood.  Hopefully one or two of these pictures is a favorite for you lovely readers out there.

That's my small update for today folks and as more pictures come around I'll be sure to make up another update.

Have a wonderful night readers!!