Balloon Race

Balloon Race is a carousel in City of Sandusky, Erie, Ohio. Balloon Race is situated nearby to Charlie Brown’s Wind Up, as well as near the drop tower Woodstock’s Airmail.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cedar Point and Top Thrill 2.

Cedar Point

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Cedar Point is a 364-acre amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio on one of the North Coast Beaches overlooking Lake Erie. It is often billed as the "World's Largest Amusement Park", and draws visitors from throughout Ohio and surrounding states.

Top Thrill 2

Roller coaster

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Top Thrill 2 is a launched roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. The ride originally opened as Top Thrill Dragster in 2003, becoming the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world, as well as the first ever strata coaster. Top Thrill 2 is situated 1,100 feet southeast of Balloon Race.

Magnum XL-200

Roller coaster

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Magnum XL-200, colloquially known as simply Magnum, is a steel roller coaster built by Arrow Dynamics at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. When it opened in 1989, it was the tallest, fastest, and steepest complete-circuit roller coaster in the world as well as the first hypercoaster – a roller coaster that exceeds 200 feet in height. Magnum XL-200 is situated 480 feet east of Balloon Race.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Camp Snoopy and Sandusky.

Camp Snoopy

Locality

Photo: Varnent, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Camp Snoopy is a Peanuts-themed area for children at several Six Flags and Enchanted Parks amusement parks. All of them originally opened while the parks were under the ownership of Cedar Fair prior to its merger with Six Flags in 2024.

Sandusky

Photo: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sandusky is a city in Ohio Erie shore west and county seat of Erie County, on Ohio's north coast along Lake Erie between Cleveland and Toledo. It is perhaps best known for Cedar Point, home to some of the world's tallest and fastest roller coasters.

Marblehead

Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

Marblehead is a village in Ohio Erie shore west. It is on the Marblehead Peninsula, which divides Lake Erie from the Sandusky Bay.

Balloon Race

Type: Carousel
Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: City of Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.48509° or 41° 29′ 6″ north

Longitude

-82.68778° or 82° 41′ 16″ west

Open location code

86HVF8P6+2V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 843727055

OpenStreetMap feature

attraction=carousel

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

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