Seven parks were sold in a $331 million deal that closed in April. The new owner’s license to use the Six Flags brand runs out at the end of this season, and one park has already renamed itself.
Six Flags St. Louis is not called that anymore.
As of Aug. 27, the park that opened in 1971 as Six Flags Over Mid-America goes by Mid America Adventure. It is the first of six American parks that will shed the Six Flags name, and the clock on the rest runs out when this season ends.
The parks were sold. Most people who visit them have no idea.
Which Six Flags parks were sold?
Seven, announced March 5 and closed April 6, in a deal valued at $331 million.
Six Flags St. Louis, Missouri, now Mid America Adventure
Worlds of Fun, Kansas City, Missouri
Valleyfair, Shakopee, Minnesota
Michigan’s Adventure, Muskegon, Michigan
Schlitterbahn Waterpark Galveston, Texas
Six Flags Great Escape, Queensbury, New York
Six Flags La Ronde, Montreal
The buyer is EPR Properties, a Kansas City real estate investment trust that owns drive-to attractions including water parks, theaters, eat-and-play venues and ski resorts.
Together the seven drew about 4.5 million guests and roughly $260 million in net revenue in their last year under Six Flags, across 418 attractions in five states and Canada.
Who is Enchanted Parks?
The company nobody had heard of two years ago that now runs six regional amusement parks.
Enchanted Parks operates the six U.S. properties under a 40-year lease from EPR. La Ronde Operations handles the Montreal park separately.
The company started in 2012 as Innovative Attractions Management, founded by James Harhi, and spent a decade developing and managing tourist attractions. It bought Enchanted Forest Water Safari in 2024 and Diggerland USA in 2025, then spun off Enchanted Parks as its own operating company.
It runs eight properties now, and it is headquartered in Windermere, Florida, about fifteen minutes from Walt Disney World.
The industry has noticed. At the Golden Ticket Awards on Sept. 12, Franceen Gonzales of Enchanted Parks took the Leadership Award.
When does the Six Flags name go away?
At the end of the 2026 operating season.
EPR retained the right to use the Six Flags brand through this year, which is why the signage, the names and the look have mostly stayed put all summer. St. Louis moved early. The others have not announced new names.
Great Escape in Queensbury and La Ronde in Montreal both carry Six Flags in their current names and will need something else. Worlds of Fun, Valleyfair, Michigan’s Adventure and Schlitterbahn Galveston already have their own identities and can simply drop the parent branding.
So the visible change for most guests is a logo and a season pass card. The ownership change happened in April.
What happens to your season pass?
2026 passes and active memberships are honored through the end of the season, including multi-park privileges at other Six Flags parks.
Six Flags also said guests who bought 12-month memberships could cancel even if minimum contractual terms had not been met, which is a more generous position than these transitions usually produce.
Pricing at the seven parks did not change for this season. Future pricing is the new owner’s call.
Why did Six Flags sell?
Because the company decided these parks were not carrying their weight.
President and CEO John Reilly described the sale as a disciplined step to concentrate capital and operational focus on properties with the strongest long-term growth potential, and said the company’s earnings power had been under-realized.
That is corporate language for a smaller, tighter portfolio. Six Flags keeps 34 parks across 23 locations after the sale, and it has already closed Six Flags America in Maryland and sold the land under California’s Great America.
Reilly also said decisions like this are never taken lightly, and that the parks are in good hands.
Next spring, a kid in Queensbury or Montreal is going to look up at a sign that says something else.
Article compiled with the help of the Pirates & Princesses newsroom.
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Hat Tips:
Six Flags Entertainment, its 8-K filing and its own guest FAQ blog post, the transaction terms, brand license window and season pass guarantees
Blooloop, reporting by Bea Mitchell (April 7, 2026), the completed sale and the Reilly statement
Fox Business (March 5, 2026), the park list, the $331 million figure and the post-sale park count
STLPR (March 5, 2026), the St. Louis park history and the EPR investment breakdown
Coaster101 (Sept. 13, 2026), the Golden Ticket Leadership Award
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