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Californias Great America

Californias Great America is an amusement park owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, located in Santa Clara, California, USA.

Great America is one of four major amusement parks that operate around the San Francisco Bay Area, the other three being Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, and Gilroy Gardens in Gilroy.

California's Great America is the only theme park in northern California that has a water park built in.

For the 2008 season, the park saw the addition of a Huss Rides top spin ride called FireFall, a new ice show in the "Great America Theatre" (formerly The Paramount Theatre), and the addition of the Halloween Haunt event to the park.


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