Indiana Beach

Indiana Beach
Founded	1926 (Ideal Beach)
Headquarters	Monticello, Indiana; United States
Industry	Amusement Park
Owner(s)	Morgan RV Resorts
Website	indianabeach.com

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Indiana Beach's skyline

Indiana Beach is an amusement park located in Monticello, Indiana, USA on Lake Shafer, a manmade lake on the Tippecanoe River. The park, originally named Ideal Beach, opened in 1926 with only a sand beach swimming area, bath house, and refreshment stand.

Today it is home to one of the state’s largest coasters, the Hoosier Hurricane, and dozens of other amusement rides. Some of its other coasters include two older steel coasters, the Galaxi and the Tig'rr, and two other wooden ones, the Cornball Express, and the Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain. The park's 6th and newest coaster, the Steel Hawg was officially opened July 4, 2008.

There is a hotel and there are cottages for rent on the Indiana Beach property. Adjacent to the amusement park is the Indiana Beach campground with over 1,400 camping sites.

Indiana Beach is also home of The Shafer Queen, Indiana's largest regularly scheduled paddle wheel driven sightseeing vessel. The boat is 26 feet (7.9 m) wide, 82 feet (25 m) long, weighs 76 tons, and has a capacity of 250 passengers. Between 50,000 to 60,000 passengers per year cruise on the Shafer Queen.

One of Indiana Beach's slogans is "There's more than corn in Indiana." and this is frequently repeated on television advertisements alongside the park's mascot, IB Crow.

Indiana Beach was bought in February of 2008 by Morgan RV Resorts of Queensbury, New York.

[edit] Lodging

Indiana Beach host its own cottages, hotels and campgrounds on site of the resort with free shuttle to the amusement resort.

[edit] Boardwalk

Indiana Beach host the boardwalk which is free now for the first time since 1972. Before that visitors would have to pay $2.50 to walk around the park and not ride any rides. This is the interesting thing about Indiana Beach. It is one of the few amusement parks that does not require tourists to pay admission for entry into the park.