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/ July 3, 2026
Mid America Adventure (formerly Six Flags St. Louis) has entertained Midwest thrill-seekers from its home in Eureka, Missouri, since June 5, 1971, when it opened as Six Flags Over Mid-America. Spread across roughly 323 acres in the Ozark foothills southwest of downtown St. Louis, the…
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/ July 3, 2026
Kauffman Stadium has been the home of the Kansas City Royals since it opened on April 10, 1973, as Royals Stadium. Part of the Truman Sports Complex alongside Arrowhead Stadium, it was designed by Kivett and Myers specifically for baseball at a time when most…
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/ July 3, 2026
Intuit Dome is the official name of the Los Angeles Clippers’ home arena, a $2 billion venue in Inglewood, California that opened in August 2024. If you’ve ever wondered what the Clippers’ stadium is actually called, how many fans it holds, or exactly where to…
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/ July 3, 2026
Formula Rossa is the hydraulic-launch roller coaster at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi that made history in 2010 by catapulting riders to 149.1 mph (240 km/h) in under five seconds, instantly becoming the fastest roller coaster on the planet. More than a decade later it’s still…
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/ July 3, 2026
Wildfire is one of the most extreme wooden coasters on the planet, and the numbers back it up: an 83-degree first drop, a top speed of 115 km/h, and a height that ties it for a world record. If you’re looking for the exact figures…
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/ July 2, 2026
For about 35 summers, Breakers Water Park was where Tucson-area families went to beat the desert heat. There was a big wave pool, a growing set of slides and a lot of sunburned kids. Then in March 2018, with the season a couple of months…
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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 tucked into the back of Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, and it’s one of the most overlooked reasons to visit the park — admission is included with a regular Kings Dominion ticket, so there’s no separate water park…
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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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