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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (formerly known as Six Flags Marine World, Marine World, The New Marine World Theme Park, and Marine World Africa USA) is a 135-acre (55 ha) [1] animal theme park located in Vallejo, California, off of Interstate 80 between San Francisco and Sacramento.
The forested area is Discovery Park, with the brown area being the Fort Lawton Military Reserve. Discovery Park was created in the early 1970s from land surplus to the U.S. Army's Fort Lawton. The site for the 1,100-acre (4.5 km 2) fort had been given to the Army by the city in 1898, and the fort opened in 1900. The Army offered to sell it back ...
United Parks & Resorts Inc. (formerly SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. [3] or SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment) is an American theme park and entertainment company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. [4] The company owns and operates twelve recreational destinations in the United States, including eight theme parks and four water parks .
Although separately gated, it is often promoted with neighboring parks Discovery Cove and Aquatica as well as Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, all of which are owned and operated by United Parks & Resorts. In 2022, SeaWorld Orlando hosted an estimated 4.45 million guests, ranking it the 10th most visited amusement park in the United States. [3]
Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc. was later bought out by Premier Parks – an Oklahoma-based real estate firm and theme park chain – on April 1, 1998, for $1.86 billion. [1] Premier began to apply the Six Flags name to several of their existing properties in North America and Europe, eventually fully assuming the brand name in 2000.
A number of waterfront parks are administered by the Port of Seattle, a municipal corporation. Seattle's oldest park is Denny Park and its largest is Discovery Park. This list has only the notable parks.
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On October 25, 1996, Premier Parks announced that they would purchase both parks from FRE, Inc. for an undisclosed amount. [2] Following the purchase of Marine World Africa USA (now Six Flags Discovery Kingdom), which was located between both parks, this made for deals so that season passes to Marine World also worked at the Waterworld USA parks.