Cedar Point Shores (formerly Soak City) is a

water park A water park (or waterpark, water world) is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for floating, bathing, swimming, and other bare ...

located adjacent to

Cedar Point Cedar Point is a amusement park located on a Lake Erie peninsula in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. Opened in 1870, it is considered the second-oldest operating amusement park in the U.S. behind Lake Compounce. Cedar Point is owned and ope ...

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. It is owned and operated by

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History

The waterpark opened as Soak City in 1988 adjacent to

. The original complex consisted of 10 slides. In 1990, Main Stream and Tadpole Town were added. In 1995, Zoom Flume, Renegade River, and Choo-Choo Lagoon were added. A 6.5-acre addition in 1997 included a 22,500-sq. ft. wave pool, an action slide area with three twisting enclosed inner tube raft slides, an activity pool section with various interactive water elements, and an adult activity area with whirlpools and a swim-up refreshment center. SplasH2O, an interactive water structure was added in 2004. All the water slides in the main complex were repainted for the 2012 season, also a new Mat Racer, ''Dragster H2O'' (Now known as "Riptide Raceway"), was added for the 2012 season. Dragster H2O replaced the speed slides that were original to the park. On August 18, 2016, Cedar Point announced that Soak City would be renamed Cedar Point Shores, and would be expanded to include a slide complex, and a new family Splashground called Lemmy's Lagoon, replacing the old Choo Choo Lagoon that was demolished. The Surf Shop was also demolished. A new building was built for the merchandise. All current slides were renamed according to the Cedar Point Shores website.

Slides and attractions

Cedar Point Shores offers a wide variety of

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s and other attractions including:

Former attractions

Gallery

File: Cedar Point Soak City entrance with slides (1545).jpg, The entrance to Cedar Point Shores, when it was Soak City File: Challenge Park and Soak City.jpg, Aerial view of then-Soak City and

's closed and now-defunct Challenge Park in 2009. File: Cedar Point Zoom Flume (4321).jpg, Storm Surge ride when it was known as Zoom Flume in July 2015 before it received new colors and name for 2017.

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