Editing Cedar Point (section)

==Awards/rankings==

===Awards===
Cedar Point won the [[Golden Ticket Award]] from ''[[Amusement Today]]'' for "Best Amusement Park in the World" for 16 consecutive years from 1997 to 2013.<ref name="Cedar Fair Parks Take Top Honors in Annual Poll" /> The park has also placed in categories for "Friendliest Park Staff" (2002, 2004 – 2006), "Cleanest Park" (2004, 2005), "Best Capacity" (1998–2002), "Best Kid's Area" (2004, 2013), "Best Outdoor Night Production" (2004–2007), "Best Shows" (2004, 2005), "Best Games Area" (2002), "Best Souvenirs" (2002), and "Best [[HalloWeekends|Halloween Event]]" (2005 – 2008, 2013, 2014). The park also won the Golden Ticket Award for "[[Golden Ticket Award for Best New Ride|Best New Ride of 2007]]" with the roller coaster [[Maverick (roller coaster)|Maverick]].<ref name="nguyen">{{cite news|last=Nguyen |first=Janet |title=For 10th Year, Top Rating Gets to the Point |newspaper=[[Sandusky Register]] |date=September 6, 2007 |url=http://www.thepointol.com/news/2007/91.html |access-date=October 15, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020184342/http://thepointol.com/news/2007/91.html |archive-date=October 20, 2007 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> Cedar Point has also won several [[IAAPA]] awards, including the [[Applause Award]] in 1996.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cedar Point wins Applause Award|url=http://business.highbeam.com/53/article-1G1-18904648/cedar-pt-big-winner-iaapa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224113028/http://business.highbeam.com/53/article-1G1-18904648/cedar-pt-big-winner-iaapa|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 24, 2013|publisher=Amusement Business|date=December 2, 1996 |access-date=June 26, 2012}}</ref>

===Rankings===
[[File:Maverick train in canyon.jpg|thumb|right|Maverick, new in 2007, was awarded "Best New Ride of 2007".]]
Cedar Point's roller coasters have consistently ranked high in the Golden Ticket Awards. In the 2013 rankings, GateKeeper debuted at 28th, marking the first time that the park had six steel roller coasters in the top 50. Later, the number changed to five, which are all in the top 25. The following steel and wooden coasters were ranked by ''[[Amusement Today]]'' in 2019:<ref name="GTA 2019">{{cite journal|title=Golden Ticket Awards 2019|journal=[[Amusement Today]]|date=September 2019|volume=23|issue=6.2|url=http://www.amusementtoday.com/issues/2019/2019gta/assets/downloads/AT-GoldenTickets-2019-LR.pdf}}</ref>

====Steel====
* [[Millennium Force]]: 2nd
* [[Steel Vengeance]]: 3rd
* [[Maverick (roller coaster)|Maverick]]: 13th
* [[Magnum XL-200]]: 18th
* [[Top Thrill Dragster]]: 21st

====Wooden====
* [[Blue Streak (Cedar Point)|Blue Streak]]: 38th

===Attendance===
In 1960, the park's attendance reached 1 million for the first time. Five years later, the attendance reached 2 million.<ref name="PB Timeline" /><ref name="Funding Universe CF History">{{cite web|title=Cedar Fair L.P. History|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/cedar-fair-l-p-history/|publisher=Funding Universe|access-date=November 20, 2012}}</ref> In 1975, attendance reached 3 million for the first time.<ref name="Funding Universe CF History" /> In 2017, the park was ranked fourteenth overall in North America for attendance and first in the United States among seasonal amusement parks, with an estimated 3.6 million visitors.<ref name="2017 attendance" /> Cedar Point's attendance peaked in 1994 with 3.6 million visitors,<ref name="New Kinzel bio reveals how famous roller coasters were created">{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Tom |date=November 25, 2015 |title=New Kinzel bio reveals how famous roller coasters were created |url=http://www.sanduskyregister.com/blog/2015/11/25/new-kinzel-bio-reveals-how-famous-roller-coasters-were-created |access-date=May 29, 2016 |website=sanduskyregister.com |publisher=[[Sandusky Register]] |archive-date=June 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630022237/http://www.sanduskyregister.com/blog/2015/11/25/new-kinzel-bio-reveals-how-famous-roller-coasters-were-created |url-status=dead }}</ref> a feat not matched again until 2016, and beaten in 2018/2019.<ref name="2017 attendance" /><ref name="2018 attendance">{{Cite web |year=2018 |title=TEA/AECOM 2018 Theme Index and Museum Index: The Global Attractions Attendance Report |url=https://aecom.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Theme-Index-2018-5-1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425021342/https://aecom.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Theme-Index-2018-5-1.pdf |archive-date=2023-04-25 |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=AECOM |page=33}}</ref><ref name="2019 attendance">{{Cite web |year=2019 |title=TEA/AECOM 2019 Theme Index and Museum Index: The Global Attractions Attendance Report |url=https://aecom.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/reports/AECOM-Theme-Index-2019.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425021451/https://aecom.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/reports/AECOM-Theme-Index-2019.pdf |archive-date=2023-04-25 |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=AECOM |page=35}}</ref> In 2020, due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], there was a greatly reduced number of visitors at the park, from 3.73 million in 2019, down to only 1.02 million in 2020. However, regular attendance numbers would reappear in 2021.

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|3.30<ref name="Theme Park Attendance">{{cite web |title=Theme Park Attendance |url=http://www.coastergrotto.com/theme-park-attendance.jsp |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011045900/http://www.coastergrotto.com/theme-park-attendance.jsp |archive-date=2008-10-11 |access-date=November 20, 2012 |publisher=CoasterGrotto}}</ref>|| 3.20<ref name="Theme Park Attendance" /> || 3.10<ref name="Theme Park Attendance" /> || 3.07<ref name="Theme Park Attendance" /> || 3.12<ref name="Theme Park Attendance" /> || 3.20<ref name="2008 attendance">{{cite web|title=TEA/AECOM 2008 Global Attractions Report|url=http://www.org.id.tue.nl/ifip-tc14/documents/TEAreportThemeparks-2008.pdf|publisher=Themed Entertainment Association|access-date=November 20, 2012|year=2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302183514/http://www.org.id.tue.nl/ifip-tc14/documents/TEAreportThemeparks-2008.pdf|archive-date=March 2, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> || 2.94<ref name="2009 attendance">{{cite web|title=TEA/AECOM 2009 Global Attractions Report |url=http://www.themeit.com/etea/2009report.pdf |publisher=Themed Entertainment Association |access-date=November 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602032710/http://www.themeit.com/etea/2009report.pdf |archive-date=June 2, 2010 |year=2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> || 3.05<ref name="2010 attendance">{{cite web|title=TEA/AECOM 2010 Global Attractions Report |url=http://www.themeit.com/etea/2010Report.pdf |publisher=Themed Entertainment Association |access-date=November 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719072840/http://www.themeit.com/etea/2010Report.pdf |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |year=2010 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> || 3.14<ref name="2011 attendance">{{cite web|url=http://www.aecom.com/deployedfiles/Internet/Capabilities/Economics/_documents/Theme%20Index%202011.pdf |access-date=November 20, 2012 |year=2011 |title=TEA/AECOM 2011 Global Attractions Report |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018203544/http://www.aecom.com/deployedfiles/Internet/Capabilities/Economics/_documents/Theme%20Index%202011.pdf |archive-date=October 18, 2015 |df=mdy }}</ref> || 3.22<ref name="2012 attendance">{{cite web|title=TEA/AECOM 2012 Global Attractions Report |url=http://www.aecom.com/deployedfiles/Internet/Capabilities/Economics/_documents/2012%20Theme%20Index%20Combined_1-1_online.pdf |publisher=Themed Entertainment Association |access-date=July 23, 2013 |year=2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408022049/http://www.aecom.com/deployedfiles/Internet/Capabilities/Economics/_documents/2012%20Theme%20Index%20Combined_1-1_online.pdf |archive-date=April 8, 2014 }}</ref> || 3.38<ref name="2013 attendance">{{cite web|url=http://www.teaconnect.org/pdf/TEAAECOM2013.pdf |access-date=June 10, 2014 |year=2013 |title=TEA/AECOM 2013 Global Attractions Report |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606220440/http://www.teaconnect.org/pdf/TEAAECOM2013.pdf |archive-date=June 6, 2014 |df=mdy }}</ref> || 3.25<ref name="2014 attendance">{{cite web|title=TEA/AECOM 2014 Global Attractions Attendance Report Report|url=http://www.teaconnect.org/images/files/TEA_103_49736_150603.pdf|publisher=[[Themed Entertainment Association]]|access-date=June 4, 2015|year=2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626102318/http://www.teaconnect.org/images/files/TEA_103_49736_150603.pdf|archive-date=June 26, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> || 3.51<ref name="2015 attendance">{{cite web|title=TEA/AECOM 2015 Global Attractions Attendance Report Report|url=http://www.teaconnect.org/images/files/TEA_160_611852_160525.pdf|publisher=[[Themed Entertainment Association]]|access-date=May 29, 2016|year=2016|archive-date=June 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160618050155/http://www.teaconnect.org/images/files/TEA_160_611852_160525.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> || 3.60<ref name="2017 attendance">{{Cite web |year=2016 |title=TEA/AECOM 2016 Theme Index and Museum Index: The Global Attractions Attendance Report |url=https://aecom.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2016-ThemeMuseum-Index.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425021007/https://aecom.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2016-ThemeMuseum-Index.pdf |archive-date=2023-04-25 |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=AECOM |publisher=[[Themed Entertainment Association|TEA]]/[[AECOM]] |page=31}}</ref>
|3.60<ref>{{Cite web |year=2017 |title=TEA/AECOM 2017 Theme Index and Museum Index: The Global Attractions Attendance Report |url=https://aecom.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2017-Theme-Museum-Index.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425021151/https://aecom.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2017-Theme-Museum-Index.pdf |archive-date=2023-04-25 |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=AECOM |page=31}}</ref>
|3.68<ref name="2018 attendance" />
|3.73<ref name="2019 attendance" />
|1.02<ref>{{Cite web |year=2020 |title=TEA/AECOM 2020 Theme Index and Museum Index: The Global Attractions Attendance Report |url=https://aecom.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/reports/AECOM-Theme-Index-2020.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425021609/https://aecom.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/reports/AECOM-Theme-Index-2020.pdf |archive-date=2023-04-25 |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=AECOM |page=27}}</ref>
|3.33<ref>{{Cite web |year=2021 |title=TEA/AECOM 2021 Theme Index and Museum Index: The Global Attractions Attendance Report |url=https://aecom.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/reports/AECOM-Theme-Index-2021.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425021750/https://aecom.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/reports/AECOM-Theme-Index-2021.pdf |archive-date=2023-04-25 |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=AECOM |page=29}}</ref>
|3.44<ref name="2022 Attendance">{{Cite web |date=2023-06-13 |title=TEA/AECOM 2022 Theme Index and Museum Index: The Global Attractions Attendance Report |url=https://aecom.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/reports/AECOM-Theme-Index-2022.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712020236/https://aecom.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/reports/AECOM-Theme-Index-2022.pdf |archive-date=2023-07-12 |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=AECOM |page=29}}</ref>
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