{"id":452463,"date":"2026-09-03T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452463\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:30:08","slug":"facing-a-2027-closure-great-america-gives-fans-more-time-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452463\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing a 2027 closure, Great America gives fans more time this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixflags.com\/cagreatamerica\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California\u2019s Great America<\/a> will keep on rolling past Labor Day this year. The Santa Clara amusement park is extending its season on weekends until Nov. 1 in honor of its 50th anniversary. This is especially significant given that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/03\/26\/californias-great-america-celebrating-50th-anniversary-this-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">park faces closure after the 2027 season<\/a> unless its lease is renewed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the land beneath the park was sold to Prologis, a real estate development company, which is considering other options for the 112-acre prime property.<\/p>\n<p>Until the park\u2019s future is settled, you\u2019ll have a few more weekends to enjoy the Demon roller coaster or Carousel Columbia this year:<\/p>\n<p>September 12\u201313<br \/>\n\u00a0September 19<br \/>\n\u00a0September 26<br \/>\n\u00a0October 3<br \/>\n\u00a0October 10\u201311<br \/>\n\u00a0October 17\u201318<br \/>\nOctober 31\u2013November 1<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Great America will keep on rolling past Labor Day this year. The Santa Clara amusement park is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7862,18113,88,90,89,197],"class_list":["post-452463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-closure","tag-great-america","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}