See photos of the abandoned amusement park!

(Lafayette Township) - Developers are planning to give new life to the site of an amusement park that has been abandoned since 1978.

Chippewa Lake Park in Lafayette Township - Medina County - closed and then deteriorated. Nothing was ever done with the old rides and buildings on the 90-plus acre site. Many are still there.

Gary Sills with Chippewa Partners LLC says the group plans a 193 room Hilton Hotel with a conference and meeting center, with an Akron General Health and Wellness Center. Workers have started clearing the land of the trees that have overgrown the rides through the years.

Sills say it is kind of eerie to walk the site and see a Ferris wheel overcome by trees or a roller coaster with branches growing thru it. In fact, he says a horror movie was filmed on the site last summer. It’s called ‘Closed For The Season’ and has yet to be released.



The first phase of the project is expected to cost about $55 million.

They hope to open for business in the first quarter of 2011.

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