Six Flags Great Adventure is a theme park in Jackson Township, New Jersey, located 67 miles (108 km) from New York City, 60 miles (97 km) from Newark and 50 miles (80 km) from Philadelphia. It is located next to Six Flags Wild Safari animal park and Hurricane Harbor water park. It serves as the amusement park for one of the biggest and most well-known metropolitan areas in the world. Owned by the Six Flags brand of amusement parks, Great Adventur...
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Six Flags Great Adventure is a theme park in Jackson Township, New Jersey, located 67 miles (108 km) from New York City, 60 miles (97 km) from Newark and 50 miles (80 km) from Philadelphia. It is located next to Six Flags Wild Safari animal park and Hurricane Harbor water park. It serves as the amusement park for one of the biggest and most well-known metropolitan areas in the world. Owned by the Six Flags brand of amusement parks, Great Adventure is known for roller coasters such as Nitro, Superman: Ultimate Flight, Bizarro (Medusa), Batman: The Ride, Great American Scream Machine and Rolling Thunder. The park is home to the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster Kingda Ka (as of 2009), and has the one of tallest, fastest and steepest prefabricated coasters, El Toro. The theme park celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2009.
Restaurateur Warner LeRoy planned an entertainment complex in 1972 capitalizing on the back-to-nature movement of the era. He proposed seven parks that would...
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