Crystal Beach Ontario Cottage Rentals — Accomodations for Romantic Getaways in Ontario

Look­ing for a great week­end get­away or a roman­tic get­away in Ontario, then escape to the beach. Con­sider Crys­tal Beach Ontario, right on Lake Erie! Read on about my mod­ern 3 bed­room cot­tage in Crys­tal Beach, great rates and avail­abily. This is a year round cot­tage for rent in Crys­tal Beach Canada.

This great beach is close to Nia­gara Falls, Fort Erie, and Buf­falo NY, with great shop­ping. Check out www.crystalbeachcottagesforrent.com

Crys­tal Beach is located along the shores of Lake Erie, south of Ridge­way and Fort Erie. Orig­i­nally the town was the site of an Amuse­ment Park. When the park first opened in 1888 it’s patrons arrived by steam­boat from nearby Buf­falo, New York.

The park was famous for a most intense roller­coaster for it’s day – The Crys­tal Beach Cyclone, built in 1927. A full time nurse at the unload­ing plat­form tended to nau­seous and uncon­scious rid­ers. The ride was closed in 1946 but many of the mate­ri­als were used in the con­struc­tion of the Crys­tal Beach Comet, another famous roller coaster with a slightly less intense ride.

Fol­low­ing the park’s clos­ing, the Comet was moved to Six Flags, The Great Escape & Splash­wa­ter King­dom in Lake George, New York where it still oper­ates today. The amuse­ment park at Crys­tal Beach closed in 1989 due to high oper­at­ing costs. The area where the Crys­tal Beach Ten­nis and Yacht Club, a pri­vate res­i­den­tial com­mu­nity stands is where the amuse­ment park once stood.

In the early 1920’s Crys­tal Beach would be the home of a new dance pavil­ion. The Crys­tal Beach Ball­room housed a 3,500 sq metre maple floor that could hold up to 3,000 dancers at once.

The Ball­roomt was so large that the orches­tras and bands of the time per­formed on an octag­o­nal stage dead cen­ter of the dance area.

Above the stage were eight curved-wood reflec­tors that directed the sound out toward the floor in order to have the music reach all areas.

Famous bands of that era to play Crys­tal Beach included Artie Shaw, Dorsey Broth­ers, Gene Krupa, Glen Miller, Guy Lom­bardo and his Royal Cana­di­ans, Les Brown, and Woodie Her­man .……(from Ontario Tourism web­site)