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Six Flags Great Adventure
Score7.6
🇺🇸United StatesTheme parkNorth America (USA)
Jackson, United States
A New Jersey thrill park with record-breaking coasters and a safari.
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Best for
Best for Thrill SeekersOpened
1974
Size
160 acres (65 ha)
Rides
47 attractions
Avg. visit
8 hours
Ticket range
$45–$90 USD
Six Flags Great Adventure overview
Six Flags Great Adventure at a glance
A New Jersey thrill park with record-breaking coasters and a safari.
Six Flags Great Adventure sits at the centre of a 510-acre resort that also holds a drive-through safari and a water park. The theme park itself is a thrill-seeker's stack: El Toro, Nitro, Batman The Ride, Jersey Devil Coaster and more than a dozen other coasters within an hour of two major cities.
Our editor's recommendation
Yes, if you already have a reason to be in the region. It ranks #17 of the 50 parks we score, at 7.6/10 with 47 rides and attractions and a typical visit of about 8 hours. Tickets run $45–$90 a day. The strongest reasons to go are its big-ticket thrill rides. The honest catch: tickets are expensive for what you get, and queues average around 17 minutes. Best time to visit: Summer.
Six Flags Great Adventure highlights
Rides & attractions at Six Flags Great Adventure
These are the top attractions at Six Flags Great Adventure — 15 rides and experiences hand-picked and verified by our editorial team, including 7 signature rides you shouldn't miss. Use the filter bar below to narrow the line-up by rider height, zone, category or thrill level.
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Plan your visit to Six Flags Great Adventure
- Operating hours
- Typically 10:30am-8pm in summer, shorter 11am-6pm days in spring and autumn; Safari Off Road Adventure closes earlier than the park
- Operating calendar
- Seasonal operation: largely closed March to early May, then daily through summer and the autumn event season; daily hours on the official calendar.
- Seasonal closures
- Seasonal: weekends only in spring and autumn, closed roughly January to March apart from Holiday in the Park dates
- Queue-skip pass
- THE FLASH Pass in Gold and Platinum tiers, roughly $50-$180 per person depending on date and tier. From about $85 USD.
- How long to stay
- Full day, plus a half day for the safari and water park
- Multi-day tickets
- Season passes are often priced close to two single-day tickets and include Hurricane Harbor and parking at higher tiers.
- Season pass
- Annual or season pass from about $105 USD.
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Plan your visitSix Flags Great Adventure events & shows
Fright Fest
Halloween season event with haunted mazes, scare zones and after-dark coaster rides.
Holiday in the Park
Winter light event with themed areas, seasonal food and holiday entertainment.
Six Flags Great Adventure reviews & ratings
Amusement Park Ranker overall score
7.6
An aggregate of 3 public review platforms, each normalized to a 0–10 scale and weighted by review volume.
Six Flags Great Adventure wait times
- Typical day
17
- Crowd & wait score
5.4
Six Flags Great Adventure records & achievements
Largest drive-through safari outside Africa
1974The park's 350-acre Safari Off Road Adventure is the largest drive-through animal safari outside of Africa.
World's tallest drop tower
2014Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom opened in 2014 at 415 feet, the tallest drop tower in the world. It was removed alongside Kingda Ka in 2024.
World's steepest wooden coaster drop at opening
2006El Toro opened in 2006 with a 76-degree first drop, then the steepest drop on any wooden roller coaster.
World's tallest roller coaster
2005Kingda Ka stood 456 feet tall from 2005, the tallest roller coaster ever built. It was demolished in 2024.
Attractions near Six Flags Great Adventure
Jenkinson's Aquarium
Boardwalk aquarium at Point Pleasant Beach with penguins, sharks and seals.
Point Pleasant Beach
Classic Jersey Shore beach and boardwalk, the closest coastline to the park.
Asbury Park Boardwalk
Revived shore boardwalk with the Stone Pony music venue, arcades and food halls.
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