Great photos! thanks for sharing. Makes me miss it even more. It looks very busy back then. Everytime we ever camped there, I dont remember it ever being packed. in the last 10 years it was open

I dont remember it ever being packed. in the last 10 years it was open

I remember it being very busy the last few years open. There were several non-holiday weekends I tried to go and there was only overflow primitive sites back by Flight Deck open. Maybe I pick the wrong weekends?

Well now that I think about it, we went during the week most the times we camped there.

Lots of campers brought their pets with them and they kept our Pet Care Center very busy. I had campers bring all kinds of pets, from pot belly pigs, goat and dog together (they were the best of pals), ferrets, fish, and of course dogs and cats. We provided a great service to the campers where they could rest easy that their pets are well cared for and they will not find any surprises if they let their pets in the camper.

Thanks for that.

My sister and her kids would run away from home and invariably would always end up there.

Campground rules and regulations at all park campgrounds I been to stated that you could not leave your pets in the camper.

^We ran into that at Disney World Fort Wilderness and just a mere couple weeks after we left they changed it to "you are allowed to keep your pets at your RV as long as they're leashed and/or kept inside". A attendant offered to take our cats himself and my cat Bandit scared him till he drained of color and said "nevermind you guys did say they don't leave the trailer? ok they can stay in the camper" Bandit from what I always remembered didn't like strangers and only allowed my father and grandfather to handle him without being bitten.

We always went to Cedar Point, practically living there in some ways, (since there was hardly any campgrounds in that region that can handle my parents camper) and their campgrounds were always full, even on non holidays. I doubt its like that anymore though :/

Last time I camped at Cedar Points camper village is was during the week and it was packed. That was back in 2005.

^thats good to hear. So many memories. We just kept all the RVs there and go around the Sandusky/Port Clinton/ Lake Erie islands considering it burns more fuel to haul them then it would without them and definatly hard with a camper the size of my dad's taking it to a campground and finding out it had nothing large enough which is what happened at KI. I mean...that Franklin was sinking a ferry and another time its weight smashed a water line at another campground flooding a bunch of campsites We probably outdo Long Long Trailer with what that Franklin been involved with.

Wow!! Thanks for the pictures and map guys! I never got a chance to visit the Campgrounds! In the future I wonder if a campground would come back or a resort would be put in, or both?

During the recent investor conference, Mr. Ouimet made clear not to expect new company owned hotels.

Hey thanks for that The Interpreter, I do remember seeing that. I just wonder in the future 20-30 years from now not within the next 10-15 years.

We probably outdo Long Long Trailer..

Nice reference.

(Trailer brake first, trailer brake first!))

During the recent investor conference, Mr. Ouimet made clear not to expect new company owned hotels.

That's an interesting point. To be honest, with his past work, I had suspected something along the line of hotels, etc. Other people must have thought the same thing.

When I would ride my bike home from working at Kings Island, you can see all the towels hanging to dry on the wood length fences and the smell of all the charcoal from the grills. Nothing like the good smell of food cooking on the grills! How sweet it would be for Cedar Fair or another group to open a new camp ground near the park.

Was this always listed on KI's website? And what an ironic name...

http://www.visitkingsisland.com/places-to-stay/area-campgrounds

I dont think they had any campgrounds listed on the old website. Nice they put one on there. I never heard of it before though

Nice that they put it on there? It was almost certainly done in exchange for a "promotional consideration."

During the recent investor conference, Mr. Ouimet made clear not to expect new company owned hotels.

Which really makes you wonder what the plan is for the land purchase at Carowinds, since there was a large rumor that it was to build a resort type area.

Was this always listed on KI's website? And what an ironic name...

http://www.visitking...rea-campgrounds

I don't get how Cedarbrook Campground's name is ironic.

Cedarbrook.

Cedar Fair.

FUN, no?

Terp, tryin' to help in at least SIX ways.

could a campground come back to Kings Island?

Possibly?

Cedarbrook.

Cedar Fair.

FUN, no?

Terp, tryin' to help in at least SIX ways.

Thanks, Terpy! It's still not ironic though. Coincidental, yes. Ironic, no.

Cedarbrook was in existence before Kings Island. It is ironic that Cedar Fair would end up owning Kings Island. But, irony is in the eye of the beholder.

See 3a(1) here:

http://i.word.com/idictionary/Irony

^That link only works on an iPhone or iPod touch. On a computer, it just gives you a screen telling you to load it on their iPhone app.

Then see the third type of irony discussed in this essay:

http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/a/ironyobserve.htm

Or look up irony at http://www.m-w.com. The 3(a)1 there should be the same. An unintended pun is indeed considered ironic by many linguists.

I would rather camp, even sleeping in my escape, than to get a room for 100 or more a night. Plus, I'm with KI-orig-emp, the smell of grills is heavenly and there is more socializing than being behind a locked door in a hotel.

I let curiosity get the best of me so I looked up on bing the land where the campground used to be. http://binged.it/xqoCrP If you look at the link I put CF could easily put another campground there. I'm not sure how expensive it is to build a campground, but I assume it's not terrible.

As for a historical fact the "One Team Village" is being built on the old overflow area of the campground. which can bee seen in a old aerial image here https://www.historicaerials.com/location/39.349440251806776/-84.26085591316223/2004/17

For facts on the campground itself. It used to include the area that Animal safari was installed. as seen in the topo map here https://www.historicaerials.com/location/39.349232838051336/-84.26118850708008/T1976/16 The remainder of the campground "Area north of columbia road" was the only section sold to Great Wolf Resorts.

On 1/24/2012 at 12:33 PM, westcoaster said:

could a campground come back to Kings Island?

Possibly?

Not at the park but just down the road..  https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/334-site-outdoor-resort-camping-planned-near-kings-island/uCdTz7ruJRgQEnEAbp5XYK/