Six Flags Announces Closure of Another Iconic Park After 50 Years of Operation

Six Flags Announces Closure of Another Iconic Park After 50 Years of Operation primitively appeared connected Parade.

It's ever a bittersweet time whenever a fan-favorite taxable parkland announces that it's closing its doors. Such is particularly the lawsuit for an amusement parkland with arsenic lengthy a past arsenic California's Great America.

Since opening for the nationalist successful 1976, Santa Clara's premiere taxable parkland spot has delighted fans crossed countless generations, acknowledgment successful ample portion to its family-friendly ambiance and fast-paced thrill rides.

Sadly, past seems to beryllium coming to an extremity for the iconic West Coast park, with its genitor institution Six Flags mounting a closing day for the parkland successful the precise adjacent future.

Fortunately, astir travelers and amusement parkland fans inactive person a decent magnitude of clip to sojourn California's Great America 1 past clip earlier its eventual closure. More recently, Six Flags has confirmed that the parkland volition stay unfastened astatine slightest until aft the 2027 season.

While the institution has the enactment of extending its lease connected the onshore holding Great America's property, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Chief Financial Officer Brian Witherow said that specified an hold remains incredibly unlikely.

"Unless we determine to extend, and workout 1 of our options to widen that lease, that park's past twelvemonth without that hold would beryllium aft the '27 season," Witherow said during the astir caller Six Flags Investor Day.

Six Flag's closure of California's Great America comes a abbreviated clip aft the company's spot successful Bowie, Maryland (Six Flags America) likewise announced their closing dates. Unlike Great America, though, Maryland's Six Flags America is expected to shutter aft its 2025 season.

In the past, Great America achieved long-standing for its eclectic assortment of rides and attractions, including the award-winning Gold Striker woody roller coaster, RailBlazer and the inverted Flight Deck roller coaster.

Additionally, the parkland is champion known for providing backdrops for specified films as Beverly Hills Cop III and the Ted Danson-led Getting Even with Dad.

Six Flags Announces Closure of Another Iconic Park After 50 Years of Operation archetypal appeared connected Parade connected Jul 9, 2025

This communicative was primitively reported by Parade connected Jul 9, 2025, wherever it archetypal appeared.