In June 2022, Cedar Fair announced Great America theme park was closing forever. But it’s been an odd sort of death.
When I told friends I was going to Great America, everyone had the same reaction: “Great America! I haven’t been there since I was 13!” Neither had I. It seems most Bay Area kids’ memories of Great America are permanently locked in at adolescence. It was the first “cool” place where you were allowed to run wild, the first tummy ache from slurping frozen lemonades and getting rattled by a roller coaster, the worst headache you’d ever had when you were dehydrated in the blazing South Bay sun.
No 12-year-old was dousing me with a cup of Sprite today. We alighted on the other side of the park, agreeing that the ride had earned its 2 out of 5 “thrill level” designation on the sign. Confusingly, the adjacent bumper car ride got a 4, but presumably that’s due to the whiplash from your least-favorite cousin repeatedly slamming into your inevitably stalled-out car. From bumper cars, the thrill level abruptly tops out at 5 — which is the designation most roller coasters have.
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