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/ July 7, 2026
California’s Great America sits on 112 acres in Santa Clara, right in the heart of Silicon Valley, and has entertained Bay Area families since 1976. Nine roller coasters, a full water park included with admission, and dozens of other rides make it one of Northern
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/ July 7, 2026
Rate Field has been the home of the Chicago White Sox since the spring of 1991, making it one of the older active ballparks in Major League Baseball even though most fans still know it by a more recent corporate name. Because the stadium has
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/ July 7, 2026
Golden 1 Center opened on September 30, 2016, in the heart of downtown Sacramento, California, replacing the aging ARCO Arena as the home of the Sacramento Kings. Built on the site of the former Downtown Plaza shopping center, the $558.2 million arena anchors the larger
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/ July 6, 2026
Canada’s Wonderland has been the country’s biggest theme park for more than four decades, but two questions come up more than any other: exactly when did it open, and who owns it today? Both have simple, well-documented answers. The park opened in May 1981 north
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/ July 6, 2026
Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida is unlike anywhere else in Major League Baseball: a fixed, non-retractable dome where four suspended catwalks hang directly over the field of play and can decide the outcome of a fly ball. It’s been the home of the Tampa
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/ July 6, 2026
The Big One is Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s signature roller coaster – a towering, seafront-hugging Arrow Dynamics hypercoaster that’s been delivering a stomach-dropping first plunge since 1994. If you’re trying to pin down exactly how fast it goes, how tall it really is, who can ride
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/ July 6, 2026
Superman: Ultimate Flight is the flying roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, that locks riders face-down and sends them soaring through a 78-foot pretzel loop, where the train hits its top speed of 51 mph. It’s one of only a
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/ July 5, 2026
Sports venue fans witnessed a historic week as the Buffalo Bills’ $2.1 billion Highmark Stadium held its official ribbon-cutting, sports venues across North America hosted the most dramatic knockout stage the World Cup has ever seen, England squared off against Mexico under Azteca’s punishing altitude,
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/ July 5, 2026
Carowinds is the rare theme park where you can stand with one foot in North Carolina and the other in South Carolina — and where getting the logistics right matters almost as much as the rides themselves. This guide covers what’s needed to plan an
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/ July 5, 2026
Katun is the Mayan-ruins-themed inverted roller coaster at Mirabilandia amusement park near Ravenna, Italy — a Bolliger & Mabillard machine designed by Werner Stengel that has been sending riders through two ‘Stargate’ tunnels since April 1, 2000. It’s sometimes typed or misheard as ‘Katoon’ or
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/ July 4, 2026
Huntington Bank Field is the Cleveland Browns’ home on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, a lakefront NFL stadium known for the Dawg Pound, brutal lake-effect winters, and open views of the water beyond the stands. It sits right next to the Rock
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/ July 4, 2026
Abyssus is the twin-launch centerpiece of Energylandia’s Aqualantis area in Zator, Poland, a steel Vekoma coaster that fires riders through four inversions and a twisted top hat at nearly 62 mph. Since opening in July 2021, it has become one of the park’s three most
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/ July 3, 2026
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom is the only Six Flags park in the country built around a working marine-life and wildlife collection, a legacy of its origins as Marine World in 1968. That means a day here mixes looping steel coasters with dolphin encounters, tiger habitats,
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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 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
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
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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