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/ July 11, 2026
Castles N’ Coasters is a family amusement park on North Metro Parkway East in Phoenix, Arizona, built around a Middle-Eastern-themed castle motif with several other design eras woven into its four miniature golf courses. The park traces back to 1976, when it opened as a
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/ July 11, 2026
Lake Compounce is the oldest continuously operating amusement park in the United States, tracing its roots to a lakeside picnic ground that opened to the public in 1846 on the Bristol-Southington line in Connecticut. Today it’s a 332-acre amusement and water park that pairs a
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/ July 11, 2026
Knoebels Amusement Resort has welcomed guests to Elysburg, Pennsylvania, since it first opened on July 4, 1926, and the Knoebel family still owns and operates the park a century later. Spread across roughly 150 acres of wooded grounds, Knoebels combines an old-fashioned picnic grove, a
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/ July 9, 2026
Michigan’s Adventure sits just outside Muskegon and holds the title of the largest amusement park in the state, spreading across roughly 250 acres alongside its adjoining water park, WildWater Adventure. What began in 1956 as a small petting zoo called Deer Park has grown into
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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 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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/ June 28, 2026
This week’s theme park news delivered a genuine rollercoaster of surprises — a record-shattering coaster postponed just days before its debut, a beloved 36-year-old Georgia park announcing its final season, Universal’s newest resort entering preview mode in Texas, and spectacular drone shows lighting up summer
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/ June 21, 2026
Theme park news this week was dominated by a world-record-shattering giga dive coaster inching toward its June 26 debut, a legendary wooden coaster rising from an extended closure, and Universal’s newest resort unveiling its first permanent nighttime spectacular. From Disney policy shifts to Halloween event
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/ June 14, 2026
Theme park news this week delivered a packed slate of ride updates, sweeping expansion reveals, and milestone celebrations from coast to coast, cementing June 14, 2026 as one of the most story-rich Sundays of the summer season. From Disneyland’s Space Ranger reactivation and a landmark
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/ May 31, 2026
Theme park news exploded this week as Disney’s Cool KIDS’ SUMMER launched with a record number of simultaneous attraction openings, Six Flags unveiled a world-record family coaster project, and Universal set a hard opening date for its brand-new Texas resort — making late May 2026
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/ April 14, 2026
Amusement park, theme park, water park, carnival, and fair get thrown around like they’re interchangeable, but each one describes a genuinely different kind of day out. Get the amusement park vs theme park question wrong and you’ll show up expecting the wrong thing entirely —
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/ March 21, 2026
Types of theme parks vary far more than most people realize. Some are built around movie franchises and storytelling, others around record-breaking coasters, and some are entirely indoors, open year-round regardless of weather. Understanding the different types of theme parks helps you plan better trips
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/ September 30, 2025
What Is Siren’s Curse? Siren’s Curse is the groundbreaking dive coaster at Cedar Point that opened in 2025, becoming the park’s 18th roller coaster and one of the most anticipated additions in years. Standing at 160 feet tall with a vertical 90-degree tilt drop, this
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/ September 16, 2025
Theme Parks Bring People Together In a world increasingly dominated by screens and solo entertainment, theme parks remain one of the few places where shared experiences happen organically. Whether you are screaming through a coaster’s first drop with a group of strangers or laughing with
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/ September 7, 2025
Some moments hit differently. The split-second drop on a steel coaster. The surge of 70,000 voices when your team scores. The exact instant a headliner walks on stage and the crowd erupts. These are the experiences people replay in their minds for years — and
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