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/ October 15, 2026
CEFCU Stadium sits in the Spartan Keyes neighborhood of San Jose, California, where it has served as the home field for San Jose State Spartans football since the stadium first opened in 1933. For more than eight decades it was known simply as Spartan Stadium…
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/ October 15, 2026
Dignity Health Sports Park is a 27,000-seat soccer-specific stadium in Carson, California, sitting on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills about 14 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. Opened in 2003 as the Home Depot Center, the venue has carried three different naming-rights…
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/ October 14, 2026
Valley Children’s Stadium sits on the campus of California State University, Fresno, and has served as the home field of the Fresno State Bulldogs football team since it opened on November 15, 1980. For more than four decades, fans have known the venue by its…
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/ October 13, 2026
CuriOdyssey is a combined science museum and wildlife rescue center perched on Coyote Point in San Mateo, California, overlooking the San Francisco Bay. What began in 1954 as the San Mateo County Junior Museum has grown into a hands-on destination where kids experiment with scientific…
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/ October 9, 2026
The Golden Coast Run links five California parks from the 1924 wooden Giant Dipper on the Santa Cruz pier down to the launch coasters at SeaWorld San Diego, covering about 9 hr 30 min and 466 miles of driving over 6 days. It suits coaster…
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/ October 8, 2026
California’s coaster scene is anchored by two heavyweight parks, Six Flags Magic Mountain and Knott’s Berry Farm, with strong standalone rides scattered across Disney California Adventure, SeaWorld San Diego, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, and California’s Great America. The top pick here is Twisted Colossus at…
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/ October 7, 2026
Happy Hollow Park & Zoo is a compact zoo and amusement park tucked inside Kelley Park in San Jose, California. What started in 1956 as a Jaycees civic project led by Alden Campen and Ernie Renzel became a beloved local institution when it opened in…
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/ October 6, 2026
The Santa Barbara Bowl is an outdoor amphitheater carved into a hillside canyon in Santa Barbara, California, built in 1936 as a Depression-era WPA project. It was originally constructed to host the city’s annual Old Spanish Days Fiesta pageant, giving the venue deep roots in…
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/ September 28, 2026
All 28 roller coasters in Six Flags Magic Mountain history on one timeline, from Gold Rusher in 1971 to Wonder Woman Flight of Courage, including Colossus, Superman: The Escape, Psyclone and Déjà Vu.
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney California Adventure opened on February 8, 2001, next door to the original Disneyland as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Operated by the Walt Disney Company, the 72-acre park was built as a tribute to California itself, organizing its lands around the…
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/ September 3, 2026
The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is California’s oldest surviving amusement park, stretching along the sand of Monterey Bay since 1907 — a genuine seaside boardwalk that never stopped being one. Its heart is the Giant Dipper, the red-and-white wooden coaster that has been diving toward…
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/ August 22, 2026
SAP Center at San Jose opened its doors on September 7, 1993, as the San Jose Arena, giving the young San Jose Sharks franchise a permanent home just a few years after the team’s 1991 debut. Built at a cost of about $162.5 million and…
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/ August 15, 2026
The Aquarium of the Pacific opened on June 20, 1998, on a 6-acre site along Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach, California. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, it was built to showcase the biodiversity of the Pacific Ocean, from…
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/ August 13, 2026
Frost Amphitheater is a grassy, tree-lined outdoor concert bowl on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California. Opened in 1937, it was built as a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Howard Frost in memory of their son, John Laurence Frost, who died of polio…
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/ August 3, 2026
RailBlazer is a steel single-rail roller coaster at California’s Great America in Santa Clara, California. Built by Rocky Mountain Construction and opened in June 2018, it was one of the first two prototype single-rail coasters in the world, debuting alongside its mirror-image twin, the Wonder…
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/ July 29, 2026
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park opened on May 10, 1972, in the San Pasqual Valley near Escondido, California, as an extension of the San Diego Zoo focused on breeding and displaying animals in expansive, naturalistic habitats rather than traditional enclosures. Operated by the nonprofit…
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/ July 20, 2026
San Francisco Zoo & Gardens sits in the city’s southwestern corner, tucked between Lake Merced and the Pacific Ocean along the Great Highway. Founded by philanthropist Herbert Fleishhacker in 1929 and built out through the 1930s as a Works Progress Administration project, the zoo was…
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/ July 20, 2026
Fresno Chaffee Zoo sits inside historic Roeding Park in Fresno, California, tracing its roots back to a small 1908 menagerie of two bears and about fifty birds. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums recognizes 1929 as the park’s official opening, and the zoo grew steadily…
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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 17, 2026
HangTime is a steel dive coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, built by Germany’s Gerstlauer Amusement Rides. It opened to the public on May 18, 2018, replacing the site once occupied by the Boomerang shuttle coaster and the RipTide Top Spin ride…
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