Theme Parks

Six Flags over Texas

Welcome to the Lone Star State! Home of the original Six Flags Amusement Park. Located less than 20 miles from downtown Dallas, nestled between Fort Worth and Dallas. This Park opened on August 1, 1961 after only one year of construction and an initial investment of $10 million.

Since its inception, Six Flags Over Texas has consistently performed well in terms of attendance and revenue, despite its volatile history of ever-changing owners and expansions. The park currently has several amusement rides and attractions, bringing in thousands of visitors daily.

Fast Facts:

Special Events at the Park
Six Flags over Texas hosts several seasonal events throughout the year including:

Spring Break Out - Taking place in the month of March, the Spring Break Out event welcomes the warm Texas weather with plenty of outdoor attractions, events, games, and concert performances. The event usually takes place over a couple of weeks, allowing various local schools' differing spring break holidays to coincide with one of the event's weeks.

Texas Heritage Festival - Texas heritage is celebrated during this event in September. The park is decorated with pumpkins, hay bales, and scarecrows and filled with skilled artisans and Texas souvenirs such as woodcarvings, homemade soaps, and hand-crafted leather boots. Several authentic Texas foods are also popular at the event, including homemade breads, kettle corn, skillet potatoes, and fried green tomatoes.

Fright Fest - The annual Halloween festival at Six Flags Over Texas, Fright Fest, takes place throughout the month of October and features several specialized additions to the park. Haunted houses, decorated pathways, patrolling ghouls, and spooky music all contribute to the park's transformation into a giant "haunted" attraction.

Holiday in the Park - A tradition started in 1985, Holiday in the Park is now one of the park's most popular seasonal events as the park's season winds down towards the end of November and throughout December. Hundreds of thousands of Christmas lights are strung around the park buildings and rides, and an authentic snow hill is available for visitors to sled down (made possible in the usually mild Texas winter by a specialized refrigeration machine under the attraction).

Major attractions

Superman Tower of Power - The Superman Tower of Power ride was introduced to the park in 2003 as a combination free fall/launch tower created by S&S Power with a Superman theme.

Titan - Titan is a massive, orange, 245-foot tall steel roller coaster which combines tall, swooping drops with tight helixes, and a 120 ft. tunnel. The ride was designed and built by Giovanola.

Texas Giant - The world-renowned Texas Giant wooden roller coaster has consistently ranked at the top of wooden coaster ranking lists such as Amusement Today's Golden Ticket Awards.

Mr. Freeze - Themed to Batman's foe, Mr. Freeze launches riders at 70 mph into a top hat inversion and overbanked turn before rising up a 242-foot tall vertical tower, subsequently repelling the train back down and through the course in reverse. There is a sister Mr. Freeze in Six Flags St. Louis. It's dubbed "the Coolest Coaster on Earth"

Batman the Ride - One of the cloned (same layout) Batman the Ride inverted roller coasters, the Bolliger & Mabillard-designed roller coaster sends riders through 5 inversions with nothing but air beneath the train and riders' legs.

Shockwave - Shockwave is a Schwarzkopf-designed steel roller coaster, often considered to be one of the few rides in the world to successfully combine inversions (with its two vertical loops) and airtime (the sensation caused by negative G's), with only a lap bar used as a restraining device.

Runaway Mountain - Billed as "the coaster that dares the darkness", Runaway Mountain sends passengers on a ride course filled with tight turns, helixes, drops, and hills within an enclosed "mountain", in complete darkness.

Judge Roy Scream - A smaller wooden roller coaster catering mostly to the family, Judge Roy Scream is offset from the rest of the park and resides next to the park's large entry lake.