California's Great America sold, park to close

[[jonrev]]

Cedar Fair has sold the land under California's Great America -- former sister park to Six Flags Great America -- for $310m to Prologis, a warehouse and logistics center developer. Cedar Fair plans to wind-down and close the theme park within an 11-year lease agreement.

https://www.cedarfair.com/blog/2022/ced ... ement-park

[FParker185]

Park is a victim of location and a city that would rather not have an Amusement Park there. The 49ers stadium I think was the nail in the coffin, once the park was told they can't even use their own parking lots on a number of days a year they were looking for a way out. Pretty sad but Ca Great America never did progress far beyond a generic 70's era Amusement Park, partially due to the location and the neighbors issue with noise.

[SFGAM__man]

This park was handicapped from the start due to its location. It's right next to an airport so it has a low height restriction, and its literally surrounded by the corporate headquarters of silicon valley titans so they can't build any big rides due to the noise.

Oddly enough the only other major park that serves Norcal (Six Flags) also has a low height restriction of 150 feet which has led to rumors they are looking at relocating the park to Fresno which looked like a serious possibility up until the pandemic. Only time will tell I guess.

[ruthere89]

This park was handicapped from the start due to its location. It's right next to an airport so it has a low height restriction, and its literally surrounded by the corporate headquarters of silicon valley titans so they can't build any big rides due to the noise.

Oddly enough the only other major park that serves Norcal (Six Flags) also has a low height restriction of 150 feet which has led to rumors they are looking at relocating the park to Fresno which looked like a serious possibility up until the pandemic. Only time will tell I guess.

[HCF]

I'd like to bring an alert to this post to warn everyone that CGA has listed their calendar year on their website and do not list Haunt as an event in October. https://www.cagreatamerica.com/calendar-and-hours

This could be explained off as miscommunications from the park (After all, Lost Islands website listed Fire Runner as 36' requirement) but considering this is Cedar Fair and looking back at their history of closing rides/parks without warning, I think we are looking at a very grim reality for our sister park.

Take what I have said with a grain of salt but I HEAVILY recommend visiting CGA this year if you already haven't or wish to revisit, because I believe this is it. I'll try to update this thread as more information comes along but things aren't looking good

[Coaster Justin]

Everyone should've gone to CoasterCon like me and FParker did.

They pretty much kissed out butts.

[Blue_Toad_Coasters]

Everyone should've gone to CoasterCon like me and FParker did.

They pretty much kissed out butts.

What do you mean? Were they trying to make you visit CGA or something? Also, are you referring to CoasterCon or No CoasterCon, with the latter occurring this year.