Location: Grand Island, New York Years Active: 1961 – Active Fantasy Island was founded by real estate developer Lawrence Grant, and was opened on July 1, 1961. It was designed by co-financier and local jeweler Gerald Birzon and constructed by Milton Milstein and Associates. The ownership group was formed under the name Fantasy Land, Inc. before changing soon…
Location: Gurnee, Illinois Years Active: 1976 – Active Six Flags Great America is an amusement park located in Gurnee, Illinois, within the northern Chicago metropolitan area. Originally opened in 1976 by the Marriott Corporation as Marriott’s Great America, Six Flags has owned and operated the park since 1984. It features four themed areas and fifteen roller…
Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario Years Active: 1961 – Active Marineland (official name Marineland of Canada Inc.), is a themed zoo and amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The park has performing marine animal shows, sea mammal and land animal exhibits, and amusement rides. It keeps dolphins, sea lions, an orca, and beluga whales. The park also keeps bears, deer, and other land animals. It was…
Location: Redwood Shores, California Years Active: 1968 – 1986 The animal theme park now known as Six Flags Discovery Kingdom previously operated as Marine World/Africa USA in Redwood Shores, California. The park was named Marine World when it first opened in 1968 before merging with the failing land-animal park called Africa USA in 1972. In 1986,…
Location: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Years Active: 1972 – 1994 Imagine plunging your hands into a child’s toy box in the late 70s, reaching in deep past the Star Wars figures and the Godzillas and a variety of Bat-people, and pulling out the little bits of molded plastic that didn’t get played with as much as the…
Built around a looping river lagoon with a modest midway spine, Magic Valley Park was a regional park that packed a lot into a tight Idaho footprint. The Magic Valley Park map guided guests through twisting rides, shaded picnic zones, and the small tram that circled its outer edge. It made finding the right snack…
Magic Kingdom was built around that hub-and-spoke layout everyone sketches from memory—the castle in the middle, lands radiating like spokes on a wheel—but the scale still tricks first-timers. That’s why a Magic Kingdom map isn’t just helpful, it’s survival gear. Adventureland narrows fast where the parade route meets the bridge, while Liberty Square’s side paths…
Built along the Intracoastal Waterway, Magic Harbor spread its rides and show tents around a looping lagoon that funneled guests past pirate ships, roller coasters, and a small marina stage. The tight shoreline meant everything overlapped—games beside snack shacks, tram stops wedged between thrill rides—so a Magic Harbor map was essential for tracing a path…
Location: North Dartmouth, Massachusetts Years Active: 1894 – 1987 Lincoln Park was a park opened in 1894 by the Union Street Railway Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts, located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts on the border of Westport, Massachusetts on U.S. Highway 6. Lincoln Park closed in 1987 and remained abandoned and vacant until the Comet roller…
Laid out across gentle Yorkshire countryside, Lightwater Valley fans out around a central lake that once held one of Britain’s longest coasters. Its broad paths and open lawns give it an easy, almost picnic-park rhythm, but families still need a Lightwater Valley Family Adventure Park map to link the scattered rides, soft play zones, and…
