Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor To Close After 2025.

[johnjniehaus]

6 hours ago, ReedObsessor said:

As a person who grew up with Cedar Point, I feel like the Nebulaz should go there.  There haven't been a lot of new flat rides added since 2014, and there are at least 3 spots I would consider:

1: the Boardwalk area, replacing the 3 Point Challenge.  Also the former site of Chaos and Schwabinchen.

2 or 3:  Near Corkscrew, where Matterhorn and Scrambler were before being relocated to the Boardwalk.

As for Kings Island, I would aim for Ragin Cajun, though I am not sure where it would be located.

CP could definitely use it although the age old argument is they get investments constantly it seems so maybe someone else needs it more. Can they give a nebulaZ to a smaller park and then funnel more coaster money at CP? 

[DoomPlague]

2 hours ago, johnjniehaus said:

CP could definitely use it although the age old argument is they get investments constantly it seems so maybe someone else needs it more. Can they give a nebulaZ to a smaller park and then funnel more coaster money at CP? 

Not just the investment that they get but the fact that CP has no shortage of flat rides. Does anyone in the chain even come close in that regard?

[johnjniehaus]

6 hours ago, DoomPlague said:

Not just the investment that they get but the fact that CP has no shortage of flat rides. Does anyone in the chain even come close in that regard?

That's actually true... I mean CP probably has more flats and coasters than valleyfair and Dorney Park combined 

[Losantiville Mining Co.]

Has anyone looked at what all SFA's Hurricane Harbor has? If anything were to be relocated I'd think some slides could at least move. 

Rajun Cajun would probably go best in the Skyflyer plot if it came to Kings Island, if anything, to bring in another attraction while potentially saving some moolah for The Vortex replacement.

[disco2000]

Who believes this is the only park closing....

https://attractionsmagazine.com/six-flags-2025-reorg/

 

[WoodVengeance]

15 minutes ago, disco2000 said:

Who believes this is the only park closing....

https://attractionsmagazine.com/six-flags-2025-reorg/

 

Well we already know of another park that's also closing, so already that's false.

[Losantiville Mining Co.]

I think I read that the City of Santa Clara would like to keep California's Great America running even if they have to find a buyer or run it themselves. The land is owned and leased by the tech company (Prologis?), but the city has no intention to rezone the land. Six Flags could probably take a good number of rides out while they still own them. It may not be a great economic decision for the city to have the park, but I do hope it survives the purge.

The possibility of selling the parks to other management also exists. I don't know how it'd work out, but I could even imagine a spin-off company taking on some of the smaller/worse parks. At least that way Six Flags can say that they didn't close them. The former Six Flags/Premier Parks got themselves into a lot of trouble when they went on their spending spree from around 1995-2004, and I think they've been dealing with the consequences ever since. 

[DiamondbackFan]

7 hours ago, Losantiville Mining Co. said:

I think I read that the City of Santa Clara would like to keep California's Great America running even if they have to find a buyer or run it themselves. The land is owned and leased by the tech company (Prologis?), but the city has no intention to rezone the land. Six Flags could probably take a good number of rides out while they still own them. It may not be a great economic decision for the city to have the park, but I do hope it survives the purge.

Six Flags is required to remove everything from the land as part of their deal with Prologis.      Santa Clara rezoned the land in the fall last year and will most likely rezone it again when Prologis presents a development plan.

 

[Losantiville Mining Co.]

Thank you! I must've read an outdated article.

[ReedObsessor]

A Screamscape post indicated that Six Flags Darien Lake is getting a second train for their Ride of Steel coaster (the original source is behind a paywall).  They suggest that that second train was originally intended for SFA's Ride of Steel, but diverted it due to SFA shutting down for good at the end of the season.  The Darien Lake and SFA coasters are identical.

This, to me, may also be a sign that the SFA Ride of Steel is going to end up as scrap.  I don't see this as coming to Michigan's Adventure or any other spot with the potential space available for it.

[Tr0y]

Just visited Six Flags America for the first time today. Its reputation precedes itself and I was not impressed. Only 4 of the coasters operating in the 5 hours I was there.

The staff were friendly but seemed poorly trained. Some of the rides had standing water in the station or in the exit paths that were so deep you had to jump over it.

I was advised not to get any food during my visit and I settled on eating a heavy breakfast and a snack while at the park. They had no custard available at Rita’s so I got a milkshake at Johnny Rockets. The milkshake I ordered didn’t even fill the cup.

Honestly I view this park being closed and sold for redevelopment as an act of mercy from Zimmerman by putting this place out of its misery. A park that in its heyday had potential but was ran so poorly that it cannot be saved.

[johnjniehaus]

I was at SFA this past Friday before driving down to the ACE Spring Conference. I thought the park was actually better than my previous visit in 2023 however, there's definitely a reason this place is getting shut down. I will post more thoughts in the trip reports topic

[DiamondbackFan]

Here is a link to the property listing:

https://www.cbredealflow.com/handler/modern.aspx?pv=Z-I9J549zUFsSziezRAUlDpkNDIIt7xMO5qE_h7gISzRPnQ5IPCRP7U1-PRJGopf#_top

[Losantiville Mining Co.]

I'll say, the entrance to the Six Flags America parking lot does look quite beautiful on Google StreetView. It by far blows Kings Island's entry driveway out of the water between the amount of foliage and landscaping. The gates and fences also look much better than the ones at KI. I can imagine that Kings Island's driveway looks like that because of the view of Great Wolf Lodge, I just wish it wasn't just a planter surrounded by tons of grass. It'd also be nice to have some acknowledgement of the Dog Street Cemetery with a sign and a small path leading to it from that intersection, although that is probably more of a pain than the park might think it is worth. 

The SFA property listing shows a large clearing to the west (left) of the left-most parking lot. Does anyone know what that is? It looks like a bunch of footers, shipping containers, and piles of aggregate, but I can't tell and am super curious.