California’s Great America
San Jose / Santa Clara, CA
Six Flags Entertainment
The 2027 Season Will Likely be The LAST for California's Great America
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 Park News - (2/2/2026) A few notes about the 2026 season for California’s Great America were posted by SFGATE. For the most part, expect things to be similar to how they were in 2025, with the park offering a very limited schedule and no special holiday events. The 2026 season won’t start the weekend of March 28th, and will only be open weekends and the occasional Friday until operations start to expand in late May. From there the park is currently set to shut down at the end of Monday, September 7th, 2026 (aka: Labor Day). This is about 6-7 weeks earlier than when it closed last season on October 26, 2025.
So it sounds like they’ve given up on trying to operate at all during football season, and to make things even worse the park will apparently also have to close down on six dates in prime summer season when Levi Stadium will host FIFA World Cup games (June 13, 16, 19, 22, 25 and July 1st). This pretty much leaves July as the only month where you can count on the park being open every day (minus July 1st), because the early august start of the school season also shuts down daily operations at the park after August 10th, when they go to weekend operations only for the last four weekends.
It is kind of sad to see this park essentially being strangled to the point where the closure will simply be a quiet whimper of submission rather than going out with a bang in celebration of what once was.
(9/13/2025) While Six Flags mentions that the 2027 season will likely be the park’s last, Six Flags is now also giving some notice that things are starting to wind down for the park. In a disclosure to the local government, California’s Great America notified that they would be laying off 184 seasonal workers in November, as the park’s 2025 season will be much shorter than it ever has, coming to an end on October 26th compared to last year where it stayed open for all of 2024 and just past the New Year’s Day holiday into January. With the cancellation of all of the park’s fall and winter events (no more Tricks & Treats or Winterfest in 2025) there apparently is no reason to keep the park open into the colder months.
While nothing has been said yet, I do have to wonder if they might use the extra closed time to begin the process of removing any rides that they intend on saving and relocating to other parks as well. It is far easier to bring in the big hardware needed to carefully take rides down for relocation when the park is entirely closed.
(6/1/2025) Based on comments made by Six Flags during an earnings presentation sent to Screamscape, the company does confirm that the 2027 season will likely be the last one for California’s Great America. The current lease now only runs through to June of 2028, so “unless we decide to extend, and exercise one of our options to extend that lease, that park’s last year without that extension would be after the ‘27 season.”
2026 - Nothing new is expected at this time...
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