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California's Great America is an 112-acre (45 ha) amusement park [1] located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, it originally opened in 1976 as one of two parks built by the Marriott Corporation. Great America features over 40 rides and attractions, with Gold Striker among its ...
Flight Deck (formerly Top Gun and briefly as Soaring Chiefs) is a steel inverted roller coaster located at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard and designed by Werner Stengel, the roller coaster made its debut on March 20, 1993, as Top Gun. The roller coaster was built as Paramount, who had ...
Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 28 riders per train. The Grizzly is a wooden roller coaster located at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. [1] The ride was designed by Curtis D. Summers and manufactured by Kings Island Construction. [2] It uses traditional tracks with steel wheels on the cars, and ...
Patriot is a floorless roller coaster located in Hometown Square at the California's Great America amusement park in Santa Clara, California, United States. The roller coaster originally opened as Vortex on March 9, 1991. It was a stand-up roller coaster designed by Werner Stengel and manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard.
Gold Striker is a wooden roller coaster located at California's Great America amusement park. Built by Great Coasters International and designed by Jeff Pike, Gold Striker was the park's eighth roller coaster which opened to the public on May 31, 2013. Its 174-foot-long (53 m) tunnel is the longest in the world to be featured on the first drop ...
Demon (roller coaster) 3 trains with 6 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 24 riders per train. Demon is a multi-looping roller coaster at both Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois and California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. [1][2] Both coasters opened in 1976 as Turn of the Century, when both Great ...
Columbia Carousel or Carousel Columbia[note 1] are a pair of double-decker carousels at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, and California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. Both parks were originally built by the Marriott hotel chain as sister properties but they were later sold off and now are both owned by Six Flags [1] To ...
Stinger when it was at California's Great America as Invertigo. The first installation of an Invertigo roller coaster occurred at Liseberg in 1997. HangOver was originally scheduled to open in 1996 as a launched roller coaster, however, the technology at the time prevented this from occurring and forced the opening back by a year. [2]