From NY Post: Six Flags plans to shut down one of its West Coast parks before its lease ends in three years, the latest site of the entertainment group to meet an ultimate demise.
Six Flags California’s Great America is expected to close its doors for the last time at the end of the 2027 season.
The park’s fate was revealed after a recent investors’ meeting.
“Unless we decide to extend the lease, which would allow us to exercise one of our options, the park’s last year without an extension would be after the 2027 season,” CFO Brian Witherow stated, PEOPLE reported.
Witherow further described the Santa Clara park as having “very low margins,” according to the outlet.
The nearly 50-year-old amusement park, originally named Marriott’s Great Adventure in 1976, has undergone several ownership changes, including under Paramount and Cedar Fair, which merged with Six Flags in 2024.
Prior to Cedar Fair’s purchase, the Santa Clara attraction was situated on public land. In 2019, Cedar Fair acquired the 112-acre estate.
Six Flags is also closing down one of its East Coast parks, Maryland’s Six Flags America and its water park, Hurricane Harbor, this year as the company undergoes significant reshaping of the company’s “park portfolio.”
The Maryland Parks will close me in 2025, “As part of our comprehensive review of our park portfolio, we have determined that Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor are not a strategic fit with the company’s long-term growth plan,” Six Flags CEO Richard A. Zimmerman said.
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