Almost No One Rembers That Cedar Point Once Considered Building an Amusement Park in Michigan

Those who ether grew up in Michigan or ever ate a bowl of cereal is likely familiar with Battle Creek. The city proclaims itself as Cereal City USA and even once had an attraction with that name. Hometown Kellogg's once offered factory tours. But few could imagine what the city would have been like if it were home to an amusement park like Cedar Point.

The Sandusky, Ohio based Cedar Point was once deeply involved in discussion with the city of Battle Creek to build an amusement park in Michigan.

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Don't believe it? A newspaper article from an Ohio newspaper dated 1977 tells the story of Cedar Point backing out on plans to build at amusement park in Battle Creek.

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The article, from the Toledo Blade was shared recently in the You Know You're From Battle Creek Facebook page. The article states that the city and Cedar Point entered into an agreement in August of 1976 to develop 760 acres in the city as an amusement park, however Cedar Point backed out of the agreement.

Comments on the Facebook post indicate the land at the former Fort Custer, now the industrial park was the land targeted for the theme park.

To the disappointment of those living in Battle Creek at the time, the paper reported:

Officials of Cedar Point, Inc Thursday unexpectedly withdrew from a conditional agreement with the City of Battle Creek to purchase 760 acres of land for the construction of an amusement park.

Those who remember the news of that day shared a few different recollections or perhaps speculations or urban legends of why the agreement fell through. One was that Kellogg's blocked the plan due to not wanting heavy tourist traffic in the region. Another theory was that it was featured that was too much unexploded ordinance at the former military facility that would have made it unsafe for the amusement park.

Whatever the reason, there is, as we all know, no large amusement park in Battle Creek today with Michigan residents needing to make the trip around Lake Erie to Cedar Point.

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