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On August 29, 2019, Six Flags Darien Lake announced that Splashtown will be rebranded as Six Flags Hurricane Harbor for the 2020 season, along with an expansion with the water park. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Due to the growing concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic , Six Flags announced a suspension of operations across the company on March 13, 2020.
Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Splashtown was scheduled to open for the 2020 season on May 22, but released a new opening date of June 29. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] On June 26, three days prior to the new opening date, the water park announced that its reopening was delayed indefinitely in order to follow local county government guidelines.
Splashtown is a name used by the following water parks in the United States: Splashtown at Darien Lake, a water park at Six Flags Darien Lake in Darien, New York now operating as Six Flags Hurricane Harbor; SplashTown Houston, a water park in Spring, Texas now operating as Six Flags Hurricane Harbor SplashTown
Hurricane Harbor is a chain of water parks that are part of the Six Flags theme park chain. Although the parks are not identical, common features include a variety of body slides, speed slides, tube slides, wave pools, lazy rivers, and shopping areas.
The water park opened the 2020 season on June 12, the first Six Flags water park to do so with new rules and regulations. [5] [6] By June 29, the state government made an order that water parks that were currently operating in the state, had to close again due to the uprising in COVID-19 cases in the state.
Texas was close behind with 1.8 million, followed by Florida (936,000), New York (672,000). ... That figure does not include those in sanctuary cities and counties in places without a state-wide ...
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The park was sold to private investors and the SplashTown USA water park was built in its place; the water park was sold again to Bryant Morris, then to Six Flags which purchased it in 1999. After initially not wanting to brand and call it "a member of the Six Flags family," Six Flags eventually decided to re-brand it as Six Flags SplashTown.