Cedar Point opens with Frontier Festival By Kate Snyder - The (Toledo) Blade The Maverick runs for guests as Cedar Point prepared Thursday for the 2021 season grand opening. Media toured Frontiertown to see some of the new offerings to visitors this season. Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com One of Cedar Point’s partners is Prayers From Maria, a foundation dedicated to raising money for research and treatment for childhood brain tumors known as gliomas. Megan McNamara, co-founder of the organization, started the foundation in memory of her daughter, Maria, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in kindergarten and died a year later.