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/ September 18, 2026
Kolmården Wildlife Park, known locally as Kolmårdens Djurpark, opened on May 27, 1965, on the shores of Bråviken bay near Norrköping, Sweden. Conceived in 1962 by Ulf Svensson to revitalize the local municipality, the park grew from an initial collection of 210 animals into Scandinavia’s
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/ September 18, 2026
Six Flags México sits in the Tlalpan forest on the southern edge of Mexico City, making it the southernmost Six Flags park in North America. It first opened on March 3, 1982, as Reino Aventura, a park perhaps best remembered for once being home to
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/ September 18, 2026
Six Flags Darien Lake is a sprawling 1,200-acre amusement park, water park, and campground resort in Darien Center, New York, roughly halfway between Buffalo and Rochester. It opened in May 1981 as Darien Lake Fun Country and has passed through several owners and names over
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/ September 18, 2026
Parque Warner Madrid opened on April 6, 2002, as Warner Bros. Movie World Madrid, built on a 700,000 m² (70-hectare, about 173-acre) site in San Martín de la Vega, 23 km southeast of the Spanish capital. Six Flags initially operated the park under a management
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/ September 18, 2026
Flamingo Land Resort sits on 375 acres near Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire, blending a theme park, zoo, and holiday resort into a single day out. It began in 1959 when cinema entrepreneur Edwin Pentland Hick sold his cinema chain and used the proceeds to
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/ September 18, 2026
Legendia is an amusement park in Chorzów, Poland, set within the sprawling grounds of Silesian Park. Construction began in 1956 and the park opened to the public in 1959 under the name Śląskie Wesołe Miasteczko (Silesian Amusement Park), making it the oldest operating amusement park
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/ September 18, 2026
Toverland is a themed amusement park in Sevenum, in the Dutch province of Limburg, operated by the Gelissen Group. It opened on May 19, 2001, as an indoor family entertainment venue before expanding over the following two decades into a full-scale park spread across six
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/ September 18, 2026
Walibi Holland sits on the Flevoland polder in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, where it has drawn thrill-seekers since opening in 1971 as part of the broader Flevohof recreation area. Now owned by French leisure group Compagnie des Alpes, the park has grown into one of the Benelux
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/ September 18, 2026
Warner Bros. Movie World opened on 3 June 1991 in Oxenford, Queensland, about 20 kilometres from Surfers Paradise on Australia’s Gold Coast. Operated by Village Roadshow Theme Parks under license from Warner Bros., it holds the distinction of being Australia’s only film-related theme park and
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/ September 18, 2026
Hansa-Park is a family-owned amusement park in Sierksdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, perched directly on the Baltic Sea coast in northern Germany. Opened on May 15, 1977, as Hansaland before being renamed Hansa-Park in 1987, the park has grown into one of Germany’s most-visited attractions, drawing over a
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/ September 18, 2026
Heide Park Resort opened on August 19, 1978, near the town of Soltau in Lower Saxony, Germany, on land once occupied by the Heidenhof wildlife park. Over the decades it grew into the largest amusement park in Northern Germany and one of the largest in
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/ September 18, 2026
Alton Towers is a theme park and resort built around a ruined stately home in Alton, Staffordshire, England. Once the seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury, the estate’s gardens opened to day-trippers in the early 1900s, but it wasn’t until 1980 that the grounds were
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/ August 21, 2026
Happy Valley Beijing opened on July 29, 2006, in the Chaoyang District of eastern Beijing, becoming the flagship park in the Happy Valley chain built and operated by Beijing OCT (Overseas Chinese Town). Spread across roughly 56 hectares (about 138 acres), the park groups its
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/ August 19, 2026
Tokyo DisneySea opened on September 4, 2001, next to Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, and remains the only Disney park in the world built around an ocean-exploration theme rather than a fairy-tale castle. Operated by the Oriental Land Company under license from The Walt
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/ August 10, 2026
Ocean Park Hong Kong opened on January 10, 1977, on the southern coast of Hong Kong Island in Wong Chuk Hang, making it the territory’s second-oldest theme park. Spread across roughly 226 acres (91.5 hectares) of hillside and waterfront, the park splits into a Waterfront
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/ July 12, 2026
Chessington World of Adventures Resort sits about 12 miles southwest of central London on land that has hosted a zoo since 1931. The Tussauds Group built a theme park around the existing animal collection, opening it to the public on 7 July 1987 and creating
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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 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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/ June 26, 2026
Universal Studios Florida opened on June 7, 1990, as the flagship park of what would become Universal Orlando Resort. Set on roughly 107 acres in Orlando, Florida, it was originally envisioned as both an active movie production facility and a themed entertainment destination — a
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