California’s Great America
California's Great America is a 112-acre amusement park located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags, it originally opened in 1976 as one of two Americana-themed parks built by the Marriott Corporation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Theme park
- Description: theme park in Santa Clara, California
- Also known as: “Great America”, “Marriott’s Great America”, and “Paramount’s Great America”
- Address: 4701 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mass Effect: New Earth and Patriot.
Mass Effect: New Earth
Mass Effect: New Earth is a theatrical motion simulator amusement park ride at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. It is an adaptation of the Mass Effect video game series and features recurring characters from the franchise.Patriot
Roller coaster
Photo: Sarion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Patriot is a floorless roller coaster located in Hometown Square at the California's Great America amusement park in Santa Clara, California, United States. Patriot is situated 650 feet northwest of California’s Great America.
RailBlazer
Roller coaster
Photo: Martin Lewison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
RailBlazer is a steel roller coaster at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. Manufactured by Rocky Mountain Construction, the single-rail roller coaster opened in June 2018. RailBlazer is situated 500 feet southwest of California’s Great America.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Agnew and Alviso.
Agnew
Hamlet
Photo: EugeneZelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Agnew's Village was a small unincorporated village in what is now Santa Clara, California. It was named for Abram Agnew, a Santa Clara Valley pioneer from Ohio who settled there around 1873.
Alviso
Suburb
Photo: Vlad Butsky, CC BY 2.0.
Alviso is a district of San Jose, California, located in North San Jose on the southern shores of San Francisco Bay. Originally an independent town, founded in 1852, today Alviso is San Jose's only waterfront district, primarily residential in nature, with several Silicon Valley tech companies and recreation-oriented businesses. Alviso is situated 2 miles north of California’s Great America.
Santa Clara
Photo: Fastily, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Santa Clara is a city in Santa Clara County, California. The city's population was 127,647 at the 2020 census, making it the eighth-most populous city in the Bay Area.
California’s Great America
- Categories: amusement park, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.39559° or 37° 23′ 44″ northLongitude
-121.97204° or 121° 58′ 19″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Brand
Six FlagsOperator
Six Flags Entertainment CorporationOpen location code
849W92WH+65OpenStreetMap ID
way 300606963OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=theme_park
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Norwegian Bokmål—“California’s Great America” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “大美洲主題公園”
- Chinese: “大美洲主题公园”
- Chinese: “派拉蒙大美洲主題公園”
- Dutch: “California’s Great America”
- Dutch: “Paramount’s Great America”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاليفورنياس جريت اميريكا”
- French: “California’s Great America”
- French: “Marriott’s Great America”
- French: “Paramount’s Great America”
- German: “California’s Great America”
- Hebrew: “גרנד אמריקה בקליפורניה”
- Japanese: “カリフォルニア・グレート・アメリカ”
- Japanese: “カリフォルニアズ・グレート・アメリカ”
- Japanese: “パラマウント・グレート・アメリカ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “California’s Great America”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great America”
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