News Six Flags America & Hurricane Harbor to Close Following 2025 Season

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Mushroom said:
Something I thought was cool was the park president, the East Region GM (who oversees KD, Carowinds, SFoG, and Dorney), and Six Flags’ SVP of Operations were all present on Main Street and talking to guests well after the park closed. It’s nice that they showed up and took yesterday seriously, and didn’t just unceremoniously close the park like it was business as usual.

Yesterday was a special day, but three moments towards the end of the day — the last ever “dance party” show in the saloon where the performers were dancing their hearts out, the final stunt show and the performers’ impassioned speeches of gratitude at the end, and seeing the enormous crowd lingering on Main Street with staff not putting any pressure on anyone to leave well after closing — are going to stay in my memory for a long time.
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Park President, head of maintenance, and head of park ops actually took over loading restraint check and ride controls on for the employee train on Wild One as it went out for the last time to allow the station crew to ride it out for the last time. That is what you call top down leadership.
 
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Against my better judgment I opened the comments on a Facebook post about the park’s closure. I’ve seen:

- People call it Six Flags New Jersey
- Say “I remember when that was Great Adventure”
- X2 catching strays
- Assumptions that SFOT is closing next(???)
- People begging Travis Kelce to save the park
- “All Six Flags parks are closing”
- And my favorite, “THIS USED TO BE CALLED ACTION PARK AND WAS UNSAFE”

Sometimes people concern me.
 
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Yep it's gone already

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Also the end of the stunt show.

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horsesboy said:
Yep it's gone already

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Also the end of the stunt show.

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Saw this with yall. Never imagined I’d cry at the fucking six flags knock-off scooby doo ass stunt show
 
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My very unprofessional recording of the final Steam Heist show:

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I recorded the final Half Dead High show too; here it is:

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God, I love how they handled the final Half Dead High. Having a special live DJ/narrator for the whole show with tweaked lines and then having the whole cast graduate at the end... 😭

Does anyone know if they did anything special at the end of the final Lost Souls? I stayed through Raise Your Glass as I REALLY wanted to experience that chills-inducing vibe change again, but I felt like I had to get out of there early to make sure I had a spot at the final nighttime stunt show. 😕
 
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So for what it's worth in two different SFA Facebook groups member have been polled on where they plan to take there theme park visits/money in 2026 now that the park has closed in both cases by a WIDE margin Hershey was the response. Wonder if there might be some degrading of the customer base and sellers remorse from this decision.
 
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horsesboy said:
So for what it's worth in two different SFA Facebook groups member have been polled on where they plan to take there theme park visits/money in 2026 now that the park has closed in both cases by a WIDE margin Hershey was the response. Wonder if there might be some degrading of the customer base and sellers remorse from this decision.
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Easy to say that, but when Hershey passes cost about twice as much and only give you one park, when they could buy the SF pass and go to KD, Dorney, Great Adventure, etc as many times as they want for a reasonable price, I think they'll end up changing their minds. Hershey's once impeccable reputation for service, cleanliness, etc. has also been tarnished over the past few years. It's no longer head and shoulders above a "Six Flags" experience.
 
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Realistically, most SFA regulars just almost certainly won't be regulars at any park anymore. Six Flags has talked on shareholder calls about how their main competition is other forms of entertainment and, in SFA's case, I think that's likely really true. I'd like to think Six Flags has numbers to rebutt this, but from where I'm sitting, I really don't believe SFA and KD have much day-visitor-type market overlap. Kings Dominion is a massive pain in the ass to get to from the DC/Baltimore area thanks to the dreaded 95 traffic extravaganza. Hershey is even further away distance-wise, costs way more, and feels perpetually packed these days.

Maybe some group sales/field trip/church group-type traffic will be successfully redirected, but broadly, I bet most of the park spend that was happening at SFA will just evaporate.

I was talking to a mother at SFA two weekends back about the park, why it's closing, etc. She told me how she was from DC and came to SFA all the time growing up. She read about the park closing and wanted to bring her toddler for the first time before it did. Anyway, I asked her about Kings Dominion and she had absolutely no idea the park existed. I explained that it was owned by the same company now and how it's a really nice park with a great children's area, and encouraged her to visit once her kid got a little older. She was completely uninterested. I don't know if she is from one of the 36% of DC households without a car (DC has the second highest number of car-free households in the country), but, for one reason or another, it was clear she had absolutely no intention of ever finding a way to get well down into Virginia to go to an amusement park.
 
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