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/ July 19, 2026
Great Stage Park is the farm in Manchester, Tennessee, that turns into one of Bonnaroo’s biggest draws every June: a self-contained festival city built from scratch on empty farmland. Locals and festival regulars just call it “The Farm,” and for most of the year it…
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/ July 19, 2026
Zilker Park is a sprawling public park in south-central Austin, Texas, spanning more than 350 acres at the meeting point of Barton Creek and the Colorado River (Lady Bird Lake). Named for Andrew Jackson Zilker, who sold the land to the City of Austin between…
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/ July 19, 2026
Grant Park is a 319-acre lakefront park in the heart of downtown Chicago, stretching along Lake Michigan in the Loop community area. Officially designated parkland in 1844 and renamed for Ulysses S. Grant in 1901, it has long been called “Chicago’s front yard” for its…
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/ July 19, 2026
Oakland Zoo has welcomed visitors to the hills above Knowland Park since June 6, 1922, when naturalist Henry A. Snow established the collection. Today the nonprofit Conservation Society of California operates the zoo, which is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and draws…
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/ July 19, 2026
The Sacramento Zoo opened on June 2, 1927, inside William Land Park in Sacramento, California, making it one of the older zoological institutions on the West Coast. What began as a small municipal animal collection has grown into an AZA-accredited zoo known for its compact…
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/ July 19, 2026
The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens opened on November 28, 1966, in Griffith Park, replacing the smaller Griffith Park Zoo that had operated on a nearby site since 1912. Owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles, the 133-acre facility sits near the…
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/ July 19, 2026
Scream! is the floorless coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain where your legs dangle free through seven inversions, and it’s one of the park’s most-searched rides for a reason: riders want to know the height cutoff, what the seats actually feel like, and how it…
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/ July 19, 2026
Riddler’s Revenge opened on April 4, 1998, at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, as the park’s eleventh roller coaster and its single biggest investment to date at a cost of roughly $14 million. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it was designed…
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/ July 18, 2026
The Phoenix Zoo opened on November 21, 1962, in Papago Park after Robert Maytag of the Maytag family founded the Arizona Zoological Society and led the drive to build it, with the City of Phoenix leasing the Society the former state fish-hatchery grounds that became…
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/ July 18, 2026
Bruno Mars opens a six-night residency at Wembley Stadium in London on July 18, 2026, the largest concert stand of his career and one of the biggest live-music commitments the 90,000-capacity venue has hosted this summer. The shows are part of his Romantic Tour, his…
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/ July 18, 2026
La Bombonera, officially Estadio Alberto José Armando, has been the home of Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires’ La Boca neighborhood since it opened on May 25, 1940. Its nickname, meaning “The Chocolate Box” in Spanish, came from architect Viktor Sulčič, who reportedly used an actual…
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/ July 18, 2026
The Cotton Bowl is an outdoor stadium in Dallas, Texas, located within the historic Fair Park complex. Opened in 1930 as Fair Park Stadium, it was renamed in 1936 for the Cotton Bowl Classic, the annual college football bowl game that called it home for…
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/ July 18, 2026
Silverstone Circuit began life as a wartime bomber base, its concrete runways and perimeter roads repurposed for racing almost by accident once the war ended. Within two years it was hosting the very first round of the Formula 1 World Championship, and more than seven…
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/ July 18, 2026
Chastain Park Amphitheatre is an outdoor concert venue tucked inside Chastain Park in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood, and it holds roughly 6,900 concertgoers across a mix of reserved table seating, standard reserved seats, and general admission lawn. Opened on June 20, 1944 as the North Fulton…
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/ July 18, 2026
Pine Knob Music Theatre is an outdoor amphitheater in Independence Township, Michigan, about 40 miles northwest of Detroit with a Clarkston mailing address. It opened on June 25, 1972 with a matinee by David Cassidy. At the time it was the largest amphitheater in the…
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/ July 18, 2026
San Antonio Zoo has occupied a corner of Brackenridge Park since 1914, growing from an early collection of a few hundred specimens into one of the more species-dense zoos in the country. Built partly into a former limestone quarry, the zoo used the site’s natural…
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/ July 18, 2026
The Minnesota Zoo opened on May 22, 1978, in Apple Valley, as one of only two state-supported zoos in the country (the other is the North Carolina Zoo). Spread across 485 acres, it was among the first American zoos to organize exhibits by habitat rather…
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/ July 18, 2026
Xcelerator is the hydraulic launch roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, and it’s the ride that started an entire category: when it opened on June 22, 2002, it was Intamin’s very first hydraulically launched coaster, a technology later scaled up for…
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/ July 17, 2026
Cedar Point shut its gates at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2026 — roughly three hours ahead of its typical peak-summer closing time — after smoke from hundreds of active Canadian wildfires pushed regional air quality to hazardous levels. The Sandusky, Ohio park, known…
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/ July 17, 2026
Silver Bullet is a Bolliger & Mabillard inverted steel roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Themed to the park’s Ghost Town section, the $16 million ride opened to the public on December 7, 2004, giving riders a western-flavored spin on the…
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