Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Great Escape (amusement park), La Ronde (amusement park), Six Flags America, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Great America, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Mexico, Six Flags New England, Six Flags Over Georgia, Six Flags Over Texas, Six Flags St. Louis, Six Flags Wild Safari. Excerpt: Six Flags Great Adventure is a theme park in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, owned by Six Flags Entertainment Corp.. Situated between New York City and Philadelphia, the park complex also contains the Six Flags Wild Safari animal park and 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, four of which are designed for small children. Including the animal safari, Six Flags Great Adventure covers the most land of all Six Flags properties. On August 30, 2012, Six Flags announced that the Great Adventure entertainment complex will become the world's largest theme park for the 2013 season when the current 160-acre theme park and 350-acre Wild Safari animal park unite as one 510 acre property. View of Great Adventure from the top of the Ferris wheel, looking southeast In 1972, restaurateur 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 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...