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/ June 16, 2026
Outlaw Run opened at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri on March 15, 2013, and immediately shattered every assumption about what a wooden roller coaster could do. Built by Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) and designed by Alan Schilke, it was the first wooden roller coaster
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/ June 16, 2026
Thunderbird is the steel Wing Coaster at Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana, and it was the first launched Wing Coaster built in the United States. Designed and built by Bolliger & Mabillard, it opened on April 25, 2015, replacing a traditional
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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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/ June 15, 2026
Oracle Park has been the home of the San Francisco Giants since March 31, 2000, sitting at 24 Willie Mays Plaza on the edge of San Francisco Bay in the South Beach neighborhood. Built entirely with private funds at a cost of $357 million —
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/ June 15, 2026
New Texas Giant is the steel-and-wood hybrid coaster at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington that put Rocky Mountain Construction on the map. It reuses the timber structure of the original 1990 Texas Giant but rides nothing like it, thanks to a brand-new steel I-Box
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/ June 15, 2026
Rice Stadium, on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas, opened on September 30, 1950 with 70,000 seats — making it the South’s most architecturally forward-thinking football venue of its era. Its current seating capacity is approximately 47,000, and a $120 million Gateway Project
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/ June 15, 2026
Riverbend Music Center — officially the J. Ralph Corbett Pavilion — opened on July 4, 1984, along the banks of the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio. Designed by celebrated postmodern architect Michael Graves at a construction cost of roughly $9 million, the venue was built
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/ June 15, 2026
If you’re trying to keep track of what Toronto’s famous waterfront amphitheater is actually called, you’re not alone — this single venue at Ontario Place has carried four different official names since 1995, and older concert tickets, playlists, and reviews can reference any one of
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/ June 15, 2026
Nestled along Exit 116 of the Garden State Parkway in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, the PNC Bank Arts Center is one of the most celebrated outdoor amphitheaters in the United States. With a total capacity of about 17,500 — split between 7,000 covered fixed seats
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/ June 15, 2026
Nestled in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, Tanglewood spans the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge and has served as the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937. The estate takes its name from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales — the author once lived
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/ June 15, 2026
Ravinia Festival is a primarily outdoor music venue set on 36 acres in Highland Park, Illinois, about 25 miles north of Chicago. Founded in 1904 as an amusement park by the A.C. Frost Company to boost ridership on the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad, it
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/ June 15, 2026
Nestled on 130 acres of rolling Virginia parkland about 15 miles from Washington, DC, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts holds a distinction no other venue in the country can claim: it is the first and only national park in the United States
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/ June 15, 2026
Merriweather Post Pavilion almost wasn’t a Frank Gehry building at all. The Rouse Company’s original plan for its new Columbia, Maryland amphitheater was a freeform nylon tent, and it was scrapped as unbuildable only months before the venue was supposed to open in the summer
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/ June 15, 2026
Shoreline Amphitheatre is the 22,500-capacity outdoor concert venue in Mountain View, California, that has anchored Bay Area live music since 1986. Built on reclaimed parkland just steps from Google’s headquarters, it’s instantly recognizable to anyone who has stood on its lawn watching the sun set
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/ June 15, 2026
Ball Arena sits at 1000 Chopper Circle in Denver’s Central Platte Valley and is Colorado’s largest indoor venue, hosting everyone from the Nuggets and Avalanche to touring acts like Taylor Swift and Billy Strings. If you’re heading to a show, the venue runs on a
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/ June 15, 2026
Accor Arena’s official concert capacity is 20,300 — the number confirmed on the venue’s own site and used for every major touring show that fills the Paris landmark. That figure sits at the top of a capacity range that shifts dramatically depending on what’s happening
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/ June 15, 2026
How many people does PPG Paints Arena hold? The answer depends on what’s happening on the floor. Pittsburgh’s downtown arena seats as few as 14,536 for a standard end-stage concert and as many as 19,758 when a show is staged in the round — and
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/ June 15, 2026
American Airlines Center opened on July 17, 2001, in the Victory Park neighborhood of downtown Dallas, Texas, at a total construction cost of $420 million. Designed by David M. Schwarz Architectural Services and HKS, Inc., the 21,000-capacity arena at 2500 Victory Avenue wasted no time
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/ June 15, 2026
Spectrum Center sits at 333 East Trade Street in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, and it’s the arena most touring artists in the Southeast build a stop around. Since opening in 2005, it has hosted everyone from Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi to Kanye West and
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/ June 15, 2026
OVO Arena Wembley — still known to many simply as Wembley Arena — is one of the UK’s most celebrated indoor venues, sitting beside Wembley Stadium in northwest London. With a capacity of 12,500, it is Greater London’s second-largest indoor arena and one of the
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