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/ July 2, 2026
For 35 summers, Breakers Water Park was the place Tucson-area families went to beat the desert heat, floating in a wave pool the size of a small lake and racing down slides that kept getting taller and faster. Then, almost overnight in early 2018, it
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/ July 2, 2026
Wildwater Kingdom was a water park in Aurora and Bainbridge Township, Ohio, that opened on June 17, 2005, as the aquatic half of the Cedar Fair-owned Geauga Lake resort. It rose on the site once occupied by SeaWorld Ohio and later the marine-life section of
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/ July 2, 2026
Six Flags New England sits in Agawam, Massachusetts, and traces its roots back to 1870 as Gallup’s Grove, making it the oldest park in the entire Six Flags chain. Long known as Riverside Park from 1912 to 1995, the property was purchased by Premier Parks
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/ July 2, 2026
Six Flags Over Texas opened on August 5, 1961, in Arlington, Texas, as the very first park in what would become the worldwide Six Flags chain. Developer Angus G. Wynne Jr. built the 212-acre park in just a year for about $10 million, naming it
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/ July 2, 2026
If you grew up going to shows in central Indiana, you probably still call it Deer Creek. Whether you know it as Deer Creek Amphitheater or by its current name, Ruoff Music Center, it’s the same outdoor venue in Noblesville, Indiana — and it’s routinely
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/ July 2, 2026
Saitama Super Arena is the shape-shifting arena just north of Tokyo that can fold from a roughly 36,500-seat stadium bowl into a 12,500-seat concert hall inside the same shell — a range that makes its capacity one of the most-searched (and most-confused) numbers in Japanese
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/ July 2, 2026
American Family Field is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball’s Milwaukee Brewers, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the junction of Interstate 94 and Brewers Boulevard. The stadium opened on April 6, 2001, replacing the aging Milwaukee County Stadium, and was originally named Miller Park
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/ July 2, 2026
A 72-foot wooden effigy looms over Mutiny Bay, flames bursting from its shoulders as a train full of screaming riders disappears into its base for the third time. That’s Wicker Man, Alton Towers’ wooden roller coaster and the ride that ended a 22-year UK drought
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/ July 1, 2026
Soak City is the 20-acre water park located at the back of Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, and admission is included with a regular park ticket. It first opened in 1992 as Hurricane Reef, was expanded and renamed WaterWorks in 1999, and took on its
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/ July 1, 2026
Six Flags Fiesta Texas opened on March 14, 1992, in the La Cantera area of San Antonio, built into the dramatic rock walls of the former Redland Quarry, which had been mined for limestone until the late 1980s. That quarry setting still defines the park
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/ July 1, 2026
Six Flags Great America is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2026, marking five decades since it opened as Marriott’s Great America on May 29, 1976. Sitting on 275 acres in Gurnee, Illinois, roughly halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, it’s the largest amusement park in Illinois
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/ July 1, 2026
Smoothie King Center is the 17,805-seat arena in downtown New Orleans that has hosted three NBA All-Star Games, hundreds of concerts, and every New Orleans Pelicans home game for more than two decades. Opened in 1999 as New Orleans Arena, it remains one of the
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/ July 1, 2026
T-Mobile Arena opened on April 6, 2016, on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, as a $375 million joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG). Situated steps behind the New York-New York and Park MGM casino hotels, the arena established
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/ July 1, 2026
Municipal Stadium stood at 2123 Brooklyn Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, serving the city’s sports fans for nearly five decades under four different names. Originally built in 1923 as Muehlebach Field for $400,000, the park became the heart of Kansas City athletics, hosting minor league
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/ July 1, 2026
Sicks’ Stadium opened on June 15, 1938, in Seattle’s Rainier Valley as the home of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League. Named after Emil Sick, the Rainier Brewing Company owner who financed its construction, the ballpark originally seated around 11,000 fans and became
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/ July 1, 2026
Twickenham Stadium, situated in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is the world’s largest rugby union stadium and the spiritual home of English rugby. The Rugby Football Union purchased the site in 1907 for £5,572 — land that had previously served as a market
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/ July 1, 2026
The Smiler is a steel Infinity Coaster built by Gerstlauer at Alton Towers Resort in Staffordshire, England, and it opened on 31 May 2013. From its debut, the ride claimed the world record for the most inversions on any roller coaster — a total of
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/ July 1, 2026
Oblivion opened at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England on 14 March 1998 as the world’s first dive coaster and the first roller coaster to feature a near-vertical drop. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard and engineer Werner Stengel, it was marketed as the ‘world’s first vertical
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/ June 30, 2026
Soak City is the 35-acre water park inside Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, and it’s included free with every Kings Island ticket and season pass — no separate water park admission required. With 36 water slides, two wave pools, a lazy river, a dual-racing water
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/ June 30, 2026
If you’ve been searching for “Soak City” at Cedar Point and coming up confused, here’s the short version: it’s still there, it’s just wearing a new name. The water park that opened on Lake Erie’s shoreline in 1988 is now Cedar Point Shores, and it’s
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