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/ August 4, 2026
Skull Mountain is an indoor family roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. Built by Intamin at a cost of about $5 million, it opened to riders on June 3, 1996, and has remained a park staple ever since, easily
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/ July 29, 2026
Six Flags Great Adventure revealed the official name and details of its long-teased “Project Purple” coaster on July 28, 2026: Bakunawa, a 382-foot giga coaster the park says will claim six world records when it opens in 2027. Named for a sea serpent from Philippine
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/ July 29, 2026
Six Flags Wild Safari is a 350-acre drive-through animal park located adjacent to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. Opened on July 4, 1974, it has grown into one of the largest safari-style parks outside of Africa, home to roughly 1,200 animals
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/ July 27, 2026
The Boss is a wooden roller coaster in the Britannia section of Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri. It opened on April 29, 2000, built by Custom Coasters International and designed by Dennis McNulty and Larry Bill, and quickly earned a reputation as one
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/ July 25, 2026
UPDATE (July 28, 2026): The reveal is out — Project Purple is Bakunawa, a 382-foot spinning launch coaster claiming six world records, including the world’s first upside-down launch. Full details, teaser and official POV at the link. Six Flags Great Adventure released a second teaser
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/ July 22, 2026
X-Flight is a Bolliger & Mabillard Wing Coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, that opened to the public on May 16, 2012. It was only the fourth wing coaster built anywhere in the world and the second in the United States, following
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/ July 22, 2026
Maxx Force is a launched steel roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, that opened on July 4, 2019. Built by S&S – Sansei Technologies and designed by Joe Draves, it replaced the Pictorium, the park’s longtime IMAX theater, and introduced a
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/ July 21, 2026
Goliath opened at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois on June 19, 2014, rising from the site of the former Iron Wolf coaster. Built by Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) and designed by Alan Schilke, it paired RMC’s steel-topped Topper Track with a traditional wood
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/ July 19, 2026
Scream! is a steel floorless roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and designed by Werner Stengel. It opened to the public on April 12, 2003, becoming the sixteenth coaster added to the park and
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/ July 19, 2026
Riddler’s Revenge opened on April 4, 1998, at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, as the park’s eleventh roller coaster and its single biggest investment to date at a cost of roughly $14 million. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it was designed
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/ July 17, 2026
Cedar Point shut its gates at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2026 — roughly three hours ahead of its typical peak-summer closing time — after smoke from hundreds of active Canadian wildfires pushed regional air quality to hazardous levels. The Sandusky, Ohio park, known
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/ July 13, 2026
Six Flags Over Texas opened Tormenta Rampaging Run this week, a Bolliger & Mabillard dive coaster that claims six world records and the distinction of being the first-ever “giga dive coaster” — a dive coaster standing between 300 and 399 feet tall. The ride officially
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/ July 12, 2026
Kingda Ka was a hydraulic-launch steel coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel. It opened on May 21, 2005, and instantly became the tallest and fastest roller coaster on Earth, a title it held
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/ July 11, 2026
For nearly four decades, Astroworld was the beating heart of summer in Houston — a 110-acre amusement park south of the Astrodome where generations of Texans rode the Texas Cyclone, splashed through Thunder River, and spent long, sweaty afternoons under the shadow of NRG Park.
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/ July 11, 2026
Darien Lake is a large amusement park and resort in Darien Center, New York, roughly midway between Buffalo and Rochester and about 45 minutes from Niagara Falls. The park opened in May 1981 as Darien Lake Fun Country on a sprawling property that today covers
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/ July 11, 2026
Frontier City is a Wild West-themed amusement park on the north side of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, operated by Six Flags and owned by EPR Properties. The park traces its roots to Boomtown, a replica pioneer town built for Oklahoma’s 1957 semicentennial celebration, which former Hollywood
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/ July 7, 2026
Dorney Park traces its roots to 1860, when Solomon Dorney built a trout hatchery and picnic resort on his estate outside Allentown, Pennsylvania. The grounds grew into a full amusement park by 1884, making it the fifth-oldest continuously operating amusement park in the United States
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/ July 7, 2026
California’s Great America opened on March 20, 1976, as Marriott’s Great America, one of two nearly identical Americana-themed parks Marriott built that year (the other became Six Flags Great America in Illinois). Sitting on 112 acres in Santa Clara, right in the heart of Silicon
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/ July 6, 2026
White Water Bay was a water park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that first opened its gates on May 23, 1981 under the name White Water. The park changed hands in 1991 when Premier Parks acquired it and rebranded it as White Water Bay, the name
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/ July 6, 2026
Kings Dominion opened on May 3, 1975, in Doswell, Virginia, about 20 miles north of Richmond, quickly establishing itself as one of the mid-Atlantic’s premier amusement destinations. The 280-acre park is anchored by a 1/3-scale, 315-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower, a landmark visible for
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