Kind of sad to hear.

It could've been a lot more. I think before people said that previous management wouldn't invest a lot of money into it because of the low attendance numbers, with potential visitors being taken by the other bigger and nicer parks that are only two or three hours away. I remember being there some holiday weekends and being surprised at how empty it was.

But that Six Flags was one of the happy places that I used to take the family to and we would spend every weekend at during the summer.

Things really went downhill during the pandemic, where the facilities were disgusting and not maintained.

I think that was one of the reasons we eventually stopped going. Then when I saw they had that semi riot in the parking lot, kind of reinforced my thoughts about not going back there.

Some people say that a lot of families used it as free childcare. Where you'd see them drop off their kids with season passes and the food plan on that main street that goes into there and leave them there for the day. We personally never ran into major issues but we usually went there and left there early along with the other younger families.

Some of the things about Six Flags were the value and proximity for us. But I think they eventually got new management/ownership that changed a lot of plans taking the value of it out. So it kind of sealed the deal for us on not going back. It did look like the new management was trying to implement new policies in requiring underage visitors to be chaperoned by people over 18. But guess they were never able to turn it around.

Anonymous wrote:Wait…..!!….
ALL the U.S. locations will be shutting down….??

No just Maryland.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a shame it's such a crap park because the proximity to DC would make it such a fantastic destination. Like if it were as nice as King's Dominion or Hershey's, it would be absolutely packed every weekend and most weekdays in the summer. Between locals looking for things to do and the enormous number of tourists in the area who would happily tack a day at an amusement park onto a DC visit, especially if it was 30 minutes from downtown, it's a golden opportunity.

They had to TRY to make it that bad. It took work, active neglect. I feel this way about a lot of things in this area.

+1 it’s hard to imagine how you fumble the bag that badly on a big amusement park a short drive from DC. But here we are.

I think this is indicative of a larger economic downturn too. Entertainment and travel spending is the first thing to be cut when the economy goes south. If we had stronger economic indicators, they’d probably keep it going a few more summers. Instead they’re just cutting bait now.

You are way, way, way overthinking it bro.

White people weren't safe there. So we didn't go. That's ~40% of the marketplace opting out.

Good riddance. More Dan Snyder junk.

Anonymous wrote:It's a shame it's such a crap park because the proximity to DC would make it such a fantastic destination. Like if it were as nice as King's Dominion or Hershey's, it would be absolutely packed every weekend and most weekdays in the summer. Between locals looking for things to do and the enormous number of tourists in the area who would happily tack a day at an amusement park onto a DC visit, especially if it was 30 minutes from downtown, it's a golden opportunity.

They had to TRY to make it that bad. It took work, active neglect. I feel this way about a lot of things in this area.

They hired from the community so....

I hope they tear it down and rebuild something else. I watched a really sad documentary of a theme park in Louisiana that closed in anticipation of Katrina and literally never reopened. But it’s still sitting there - it’s a visual blight, an attractive nuisance for mischief and the locals just want it torn down and no one will. It’s really sad.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a shame it's such a crap park because the proximity to DC would make it such a fantastic destination. Like if it were as nice as King's Dominion or Hershey's, it would be absolutely packed every weekend and most weekdays in the summer. Between locals looking for things to do and the enormous number of tourists in the area who would happily tack a day at an amusement park onto a DC visit, especially if it was 30 minutes from downtown, it's a golden opportunity.

They had to TRY to make it that bad. It took work, active neglect. I feel this way about a lot of things in this area.

+1

Kings Dominion is flooded with people all the way from Stafford and the entire central and southern Virginia area every single weekend it is open. Growing up in Fredericksburg almost every family had a season pass. It’s the go to park for people in Eastern NC too, their reach is FAR. Six flags should have been sucking in the entire DC and Baltimore metropolitan areas as well as day trippers from Delaware. What a fumble.

I agree. But it’s not a recent issue. It’s been a huge step down from Busch Gardens, Hershey, KD as long as I can remember.

Ugh. I hope all the other "amusement parks" follow suit.

That place is disgustng.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait…..!!….
ALL the U.S. locations will be shutting down….??

Good. 6 flags is super racist.

How is it racist?

Um, hello? Six Flags??

You do know one of those six flags is the CONFEDERATE flag, don’t you?

I’m curious if those of you slamming it ever actually went?
I went twice last summer with my kid and had a great time. It was clean , not long lines, felt safe.
It was daytime so maybe it’s different but no issuer except the prices.

Anonymous wrote:Another business that Dan Snyder drove into the ground!!!

At this rate, he will probably be president in about 10 years.

Another business that Dan Snyder drove into the ground!!!

I live in PG and had season tickets for several years when my kids were younger. The tickets were affordable and it was great to spend a few hours there anytime we wanted to in the summers, especially with little kids when a whole day at the amusement park would be too tiring.

We don’t have season tickets anymore, but we would still go once or twice a year.

I am an Md. native and went as a child back when it was wild world. Lots of good memories, will definitely miss it.

An

Thank goodness. Nothing good came out of their in the last few years.