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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.
Sky Trek Tower is a 285-foot (87 m) [note 1] gyro tower located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, United States.Manufactured by Intamin, the attraction is the tallest free-standing structure in Lake County, Illinois.
Whizzer, originally named Willard's Whizzer, is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, United States.Designed by Werner Stengel and built by Anton Schwarzkopf, the Speedracer model was one of two identical roller coasters built for the Marriott Corporation in time for the debut of their Great America parks in 1976.
Adventureland in Farmingdale, N.Y. - March 25. Adventurer’s Park in New York - March 23. Beech Bend in Bowling Green, Ky. - May 11. California’s Great America in Santa Clara, Calif. - March 23 ...
American Eagle is a wooden racing roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois. It was the first wooden roller coaster designed by Intamin of Switzerland and was built in 1981 by the contracting firm Figley-Wright at a cost of $10 million. While most of the records have since been broken, American Eagle had ...
They feature either four, five or six cars fitting four people on each one. Wonderland and Great America's models fall at a top speed of 62 mph (100 km/h) and are 227 feet (69 m) tall, while Carowinds' model fell at 56 mph (90 km/h) and is 160 ft (49 m) tall. All three were originally painted in rainbow colors with race track decals.
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 America parks were owned by Marriott Corporation. [3]
After Paramount sold off its Great America park to Cedar Fair (now Six Flags), the roller coaster was rebranded as Flight Deck. Flight Deck reaches a maximum height of 100 ft (30 m), with a maximum speed of 50 mph (80 km/h) and a total track length of 2,260 ft (690 m).