Theme Park Report
California’s Great America will remain open for the 2027 season, but Six Flags has not confirmed when the Santa Clara theme park will permanently close.
In a September 2026 statement to KTVU, Six Flags said it was “excited to confirm” the park’s 2027 season. The company did not announce an operating decision for 2028 or beyond, saying it is “working with stakeholders to chart the future of the park.”
The park’s current lease is scheduled to expire in June 2028 and includes an option for a five-year extension. Six Flags has previously said it had not decided whether to extend the agreement through 2032.
During Six Flags’ 2025 Investor Day, Chief Financial Officer Brian Witherow said that, without an extension, 2027 would be the park’s final operating season. However, that statement did not establish a specific closing date, and the company’s latest confirmation only addresses operation during 2027.
Six Flags’ 2024 annual report also identified December 31, 2027, as the approximate end of the estimated useful lives assigned to the park’s remaining property and equipment for accounting purposes. That date supports 2027 as the company’s current operating horizon but is not an official announcement that the park will close then.
The uncertainty began before Cedar Fair merged with Six Flags in 2024. In June 2022, Cedar Fair sold the land beneath California’s Great America to Prologis for $310 million and entered into a lease allowing the park to continue operating. The agreement includes a potential five-year renewal and can be terminated early by the landowner with at least two years’ notice.
Under the arrangement described in Six Flags’ annual report, the existing park operations would close and the rides and attractions would be removed from the property when the lease ends. Prologis owns the land on which the park sits.
Attractions Magazine reports that California’s Great America opened in 1976 and includes more than 50 rides and attractions, nine roller coasters, the South Bay Shores water park and a Planet Snoopy children’s area. For now, Six Flags has confirmed another season of operation, while the park’s longer-term future remains under consideration.
