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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 16, 2026
Apocalypse: The Ride is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, built by Great Coasters International and designed by Jeff Pike. It opened on May 23, 2009, originally themed to the film Terminator Salvation before Six Flags rebranded it Apocalypse
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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 11, 2026
Medusa opened at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California on March 18, 2000, making history as the first floorless roller coaster on the West Coast. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, the $15 million steel coaster gave riders the sensation of having their
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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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/ July 17, 2026
GhostRider is a wooden roller coaster in the Ghost Town section of Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Designed by Robin Hall and built by Custom Coasters International at a cost of about $24 million, it opened to the public on December 8, 1998,
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/ July 11, 2026
Wild Water Adventure Park sits on 52 acres in Clovis, California, just outside Fresno, where the Siggers family has run a summer water playground since the property first opened for recreation in 1974 as Serena Vista Lakes, a tranquil fishing and camping spot. Greg Siggers
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/ June 29, 2026
Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, traces its roots to 1920 when Walter Knott began selling berries from a roadside stand. By 1934 his wife Cordelia had opened a fried chicken restaurant that drew crowds from across Southern California, and Walter soon began building
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/ June 26, 2026
Perched on California’s Cannery Row, the Monterey Bay Aquarium is widely considered the finest aquarium in the country — a place that turned ocean conservation into a world-class visitor experience. A living window on Monterey Bay Its towering three-story Kelp Forest exhibit sways with real
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/ June 23, 2026
Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955 in Anaheim, California, making it the first theme park ever built by The Walt Disney Company and the only one designed and constructed under the direct supervision of Walt Disney himself. Built at a cost of $17 million on
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/ June 22, 2026
Six Flags Magic Mountain is a 209-acre amusement park in Valencia, California, roughly 35 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. It originally opened on May 29, 1971, developed by the Newhall Land and Farming Company, and was acquired by Six Flags in 1979. The park
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/ June 15, 2026
The Hollywood Palladium — at 6215 Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Los Angeles — is one of the most storied concert venues on the West Coast. With a capacity of up to 4,000 standing concertgoers on its sweeping 11,200-square-foot dance floor, it occupies a
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