Riptide Raceway

Riptide Raceway is a water slide in Erie, Ohio. Riptide Raceway is situated nearby to the water slide Perch Plunge, as well as near Wild Walleye.

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 1,900 feet south of Riptide Raceway.

Magnum XL-200

Roller coaster

Photo: a d y a, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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 940 feet south of Riptide Raceway.

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.

Riptide Raceway

Type: Water slide
Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Erie, Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.4879° or 41° 29′ 16″ north

Longitude

-82.68511° or 82° 41′ 6″ west

Open location code

86HVF8Q7+5X

OpenStreetMap ID

way 846849676

OpenStreetMap feature

attraction=water_slide

OpenStreetMap feature

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OpenStreetMap feature

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Perch Plunge and Wild Walleye.

Nearby Places

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