Cedar Fair

OMG Valleyfair is for Sale!!

Cedar Fair announced that Valleyfair is for sale!

Valleyfair For Sale

I guess Cedar Fair wants to pay down it’s debts and that means putting Valleyfair up for the highest bidder. Granted, I’d love to own it, but I don’t think $100 would cover it.

However, even more disturbing news is that Cedar Fair is thinking of selling California’s Great America to the 49ers to use a a parking lot. A parking lot! Now that’s sad!

At this time Valleyfair will continue to operate as normal. If it does get sold, I wonder who’d it go to? Cedar Fair seems like such a good parent. To bad their purchase of Paramount Parks Inc. put them in so much debt.

Valleyfair income 4th in Cedar Fair Parks in 2005

Out of the Cedar Fair family of amusement parks, Valleyfair’s income came in 4th in 2005 at $36 million.

The 2005 Income List:

  1. Cedar Point $210 million
  2. Knott’s Berry Farm $186 million
  3. Dorney Park $56 million
  4. Valleyfair $36 million
  5. Worlds of Fun $35 million
  6. Geauga Lake $26 million
  7. Michigan’s Adventure $19 million

Knott’s and Cedar Point brought in about 70% of income which is huge. The other parks need to bring in more visitors somehow to help increase their totals. I know that Valleyfair has been adding an exciting new ride about every other year so their total should continue to increase.