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/ July 8, 2026
Worlds of Fun is a theme park in Kansas City, Missouri, that opened on May 26, 1973, on land developed by Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt and Jack Steadman. The park originally drew its theming from Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days,
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/ July 8, 2026
Valleyfair has been the Twin Cities’ go-to theme park for 50 years, growing from a 26-acre park with 20 rides in 1976 into Minnesota’s largest amusement park — headlined today by the 207-foot hypercoaster Wild Thing and the newly expanded Superior Shores waterpark. Ownership changed
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/ July 7, 2026
Zoombezi Bay is a 22.7-acre water park owned and operated by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, Ohio, just north of Columbus. It opened to the public on May 26, 2008, on the site of the former Wyandot Lake Adventure Park, which the zoo
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/ July 7, 2026
Water Country USA is a water park located in York County, Virginia, just outside Williamsburg. Opened on June 20, 1984, it bills itself as “Virginia’s Largest Family Water Park” and is owned by United Parks & Resorts, the same company behind neighboring Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
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/ July 7, 2026
Dorney Park traces its roots to 1860, when Solomon Dorney built a trout hatchery and picnic resort on his estate outside Allentown, Pennsylvania. The grounds grew into a full amusement park by 1884, making it the fifth-oldest continuously operating amusement park in the United States
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/ July 7, 2026
California’s Great America sits on 112 acres in Santa Clara, right in the heart of Silicon Valley, and has entertained Bay Area families since 1976. Nine roller coasters, a full water park included with admission, and dozens of other rides make it one of Northern
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/ July 7, 2026
Rate Field has been the home of the Chicago White Sox since the spring of 1991, making it one of the older active ballparks in Major League Baseball even though most fans still know it by a more recent corporate name. Because the stadium has
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/ July 7, 2026
Golden 1 Center opened on September 30, 2016, in the heart of downtown Sacramento, California, replacing the aging ARCO Arena as the home of the Sacramento Kings. Built on the site of the former Downtown Plaza shopping center, the $558.2 million arena anchors the larger
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/ July 6, 2026
Splish Splash is a 96-acre water park in Calverton, New York, on Long Island. Founded by Tony Gentile and Chip Cleary, it opened to the public in May 1991 and has grown into the largest water park in the New York tri-state area, drawing crowds
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/ July 6, 2026
White Water Bay was a water park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that first opened its gates on May 23, 1981 under the name White Water. The park changed hands in 1991 when Premier Parks acquired it and rebranded it as White Water Bay, the name
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/ July 6, 2026
Kings Dominion opened on May 3, 1975, in Doswell, Virginia, about 20 miles north of Richmond, quickly establishing itself as one of the mid-Atlantic’s premier amusement destinations. The 280-acre park is anchored by a 1/3-scale, 315-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower, a landmark visible for
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/ July 6, 2026
Canada’s Wonderland has been the country’s biggest theme park for more than four decades, but two questions come up more than any other: exactly when did it open, and who owns it today? Both have simple, well-documented answers. The park opened in May 1981 north
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/ July 6, 2026
Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida is unlike anywhere else in Major League Baseball: a fixed, non-retractable dome where four suspended catwalks hang directly over the field of play and can decide the outcome of a fly ball. It’s been the home of the Tampa
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/ July 6, 2026
The Big One is Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s signature roller coaster – a towering, seafront-hugging Arrow Dynamics hypercoaster that’s been delivering a stomach-dropping first plunge since 1994. If you’re trying to pin down exactly how fast it goes, how tall it really is, who can ride
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/ July 6, 2026
Superman: Ultimate Flight is the flying roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, that locks riders face-down and sends them soaring through a 78-foot pretzel loop, where the train hits its top speed of 51 mph. It’s one of only a
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/ July 5, 2026
Balder opened at Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden, on April 12, 2003, and quickly became one of the most celebrated wooden roller coasters in the world. Named after the Norse god of light and justice, the ride was manufactured by Intamin and designed by
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/ July 5, 2026
Sports venue fans witnessed a historic week as the Buffalo Bills’ $2.1 billion Highmark Stadium held its official ribbon-cutting, sports venues across North America hosted the most dramatic knockout stage the World Cup has ever seen, England squared off against Mexico under Azteca’s punishing altitude,
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/ July 5, 2026
Live music lit up the Fourth of July holiday weekend with outdoor spectacles, first-ever arena launches, and milestone industry developments that make the first weekend of July 2026 one of the most eventful weeks of the touring year so far. Tours & Festival Announcements One
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/ July 5, 2026
Theme park news this week was as packed as a holiday weekend queue — a brand-new universal resort for young kids opened in Texas, a record-shattering giga dive coaster entered passholder previews in Arlington, Disney flipped a beloved flying-theater film into a patriotic Fourth of
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/ July 5, 2026
Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark just landed at No. 2 in USA Today’s 2026 10Best Readers’ Choice ranking of the nation’s indoor water parks, its third straight year in the top three. A retractable roof lets the Grand Prairie, Texas attraction run wide open on hot
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