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/ October 2, 2026
Theme park news today is topped by Mattel’s reveal of Barbie- and Hot Wheels-themed indoor water parks, with the first confirmed to open in Bellevue, Nebraska, alongside Metallica becoming the first metal band to headline a residency at the Las Vegas Sphere. This roundup for…
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/ October 1, 2026
Virgin Hotels Las Vegas sits at 4455 Paradise Road in Paradise, Nevada, a short drive east of the Las Vegas Strip on the former site of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, which operated there from 1995 until its 2020 conversion. The 1,504-room resort reopened…
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/ October 1, 2026
Rio Hotel & Casino sits at 3700 West Flamingo Road, just west of Interstate 15 and about a mile off the Las Vegas Strip. Opened January 15, 1990, it was the valley’s first all-suite hotel-casino, and every one of its rooms is still a suite…
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/ October 1, 2026
Holiday in the Park returns to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, on select nights from November 21, 2026 through January 3, 2027, after sitting out the 2025 season. Six Flags describes this as a full reimagining of the event rather than a…
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/ October 1, 2026
Theme park news today is led by Six Flags Magic Mountain’s decision to permanently retire its X2 roller coaster following lawsuits from riders who allege the ride caused brain injuries, according to blooloop. The closure comes the same week Walt Disney World marks its 55th…
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/ October 1, 2026
The Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens sits just north of Orlando in Sanford, Florida, tucked along the shores of Lake Monroe. What began in 1923 as the small Sanford Municipal Zoo, stocked with animals donated by the local fire department, grew into a full-fledged…
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/ October 1, 2026
Capron Park Zoo is a compact, AZA-accredited zoo in Attleboro, Massachusetts, that proves big wildlife experiences don’t need big acreage. Spread across just 8 acres of land donated by the Capron family, the zoo opened in 1937 after a fundraising campaign started by local schoolchildren…
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/ October 1, 2026
Carolina Goldrusher is a steel mine train roller coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina, and it holds the distinction of being the park’s very first coaster. Designed by Ron Toomer and built by Arrow Dynamics, it opened on March 31, 1973, the same year…
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/ October 1, 2026
Woodstock’s Air Rail is a suspended family coaster tucked into the Camp Snoopy section of Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma as a Suspended Family Coaster model and designed by Peter Clerx, the ride opened to guests on April 7, 2001…
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/ September 30, 2026
Terror Behind the Walls was the annual Halloween haunted house staged inside Eastern State Penitentiary, the crumbling 19th-century prison in Philadelphia that once held Al Capone. What began in 1991 as a single-night fundraiser to help preserve the decaying site grew into a sprawling, multi-attraction…
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/ September 30, 2026
Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium has anchored Memphis college football since it opened as Memphis Memorial Stadium on September 16, 1965. Built on the grounds of the former Mid-South Fairgrounds in the city’s Midtown neighborhood, the venue has carried three names over its history, becoming Liberty…
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/ September 30, 2026
Huntington Bank Stadium rises on the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus as the on-campus home of Golden Gophers football. Opened on September 12, 2009, it was the first new stadium built in the Big Ten Conference since 1960, ending the Gophers’ long run inside the…
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/ September 30, 2026
Sun Bowl Stadium sits on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso, carved into a natural desert bowl at the base of the Franklin Mountains. Opened on September 21, 1963, it has served as the home field for UTEP Miners football ever…
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/ September 30, 2026
Williamsburg Music Center is a nonprofit jazz club tucked into the corner of Bedford Avenue and South 5th Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1981 by bassist, composer, and bandleader Gerry Eastman, it holds the distinction of being Brooklyn’s only…
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/ September 30, 2026
The Ville Amphitheater is a compact, community-scale outdoor music venue tucked into the historic Main Street District of downtown Fayetteville, Georgia, about 15 minutes south of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The city-owned facility seats roughly 1,500 people on natural-grass, tiered lawn seating in front of…
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/ September 30, 2026
The Andrew J. Brady Music Center sits on the banks of the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati, giving concertgoers a skyline backdrop unlike almost any other venue in the Midwest. Opened on July 22, 2021 in The Banks neighborhood, it pairs an 8,000-capacity outdoor stage…
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/ September 30, 2026
Cape May County Park & Zoo sits inside Cape May Court House’s 200-acre Park Central in Middle Township, New Jersey, and has offered free year-round admission since it opened in 1978. What began as a 40-acre plantation tract donated to the county in 1942 has…
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/ September 30, 2026
Cameron Park Zoo sits along the Brazos River in Waco, Texas, where naturalistic habitats replace traditional cages and walkways wind past waterfalls, ponds, and dense native vegetation. The zoo opened to the public on July 18, 1993, the result of a 1989 countywide bond that…
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/ September 30, 2026
Caldwell Zoo began humbly in 1937 as a Child Development Laboratory in Tyler, Texas, where DK Caldwell and his wife Lottie gathered small animals like Easter bunnies and ducklings to delight local children. What started as a modest backyard menagerie grew steadily, and in 1953…
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/ September 30, 2026
Theme park news today is led by Shanghai Disneyland, where Imagineers have begun testing the track for the upcoming Spider-Man roller coaster, and by Disney’s BoardWalk, which is opening its new Hurly-Burly jazz club. Also in today’s roundup: Futuroscope details its new sci-fi hotel, Sphere…
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