Six Flags Great Adventure
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| Location | Jackson, New Jersey, USA |
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| Coordinates | 40°8′15.71″N 74°26′25.65″W / 40.1376972°N 74.4404583°WCoordinates: 40°8′15.71″N 74°26′25.65″W / 40.1376972°N 74.4404583°W |
| Owner | Six Flags |
| Opened | July 1, 1974 |
| Previous names | Great Adventure |
| Operating season | late March/early April – early January |
| Visitors per annum | 3,050,000 in 2015 |
| Rides | |
| Total | 50 |
| Roller coasters | 13 |
| Water rides | 2 |
| Website | Six Flags Great Adventure |
Six Flags Great Adventure is an amusement park located in Jackson, New Jersey, owned by Six Flags Entertainment Corp. Situated between New York City and Philadelphia, the park complex also contains the Hurricane Harbor water park.
The park opened in 1974 under restaurateur Warner LeRoy. Six Flags took over ownership of the park in 1977. Today, the park contains eleven themed areas.
On August 30, 2012, Six Flags combined its 160-acre (65 ha) Great Adventure Park with its 350-acre (140 ha) Wild Safari animal park to form the 510-acre (210 ha) Great Adventure & Safari park, making it the largest theme park in the world.
Numerous artists have performed concerts at the park, including The Ramones, The Beach Boys, Heart, Kansas, Cheap Trick, Joan Jett, Falling In Reverse, Alice Cooper, and Justin Bieber.
In 1972, inventor Warner LeRoy developed concept plans for the Great Adventure entertainment complex, proposing seven parks be built within the complex: An amusement park, a safari park, a show park, a floral park, a sports complex, a shopping district, and a campground with beach/waterpark and stables. His proposal also included plans for hotels, which were connected to the parks and could be reached by boats, buses, a sky ride and/or a monorail. LeRoy wanted his parks to flow naturally through the forest and lakes, capitalizing on the back-to-nature movement of the era. He chose a property then owned by the Switlik family, in an area centrally located between the New York City and Philadelphia regions. The property on CR 537 had easy access to the newly-constructed Interstate 195, which connected central New Jersey to the New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95) and would eventually (in 1981) connect to the Garden State Parkway.
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