I got the unfortunate opportunity to visit Six Flags America back during my Old Dominion trip on June 26th, 2025, with this park being the last park I visited on my 4 day trip to Virginia/Maryland. I had been told of how terrible this park was, but I simply didn't know it could be so bad.

As we pulled up to the parking booth at Six Flags America, we had to use Taylor's window to "pay" for parking as they had windows on both sides, and with Taylor being on the passenger side, it was awkward. Parking was also confusing, but we managed to make it to the front gate with due time.

Getting into the park was also a joy, as Graham and I had issues with our passes to get in, while Taylor didn't. This is consistent with my visit to Six Flags Over Georgia, so I am not that surprised. What surprised me, however is how the supervisor just...let us in. I have no idea why she did that but I honestly think its because the park was due to close in November 2025 anyway, so she probably was not concerned about her job. The enterance plaza was actually really nice to look at, nice enough that I began to question the hate. I did not see, however, what lie after the end of the street.

As soon as you leave the main plaza, the quality dropped dramatically, and I began to understand. The park seemed to have no significant areas of indoor A/C, and with it being 100f that day, it was misreable. I brought my drink bottle from Six Flags Over Georgia, which was a godsend with the heat. The 3 of us split the drinks, and we had a way to stay hydraited.

We first rode Great Escape, the parks kiddy coaster. This would shockingly be the second best ride in the park, which is something I did NOT expect. Following, we ride Voodoo Drop, and got some nice views of the park, including the abandoned Thomas Town and closed Wild One and Batwing. Yes, dear reader, we missed Wild One and Batwing. We followed up on riding Joker's Jinx, the second FoF clone I rode on this trip, and the 3rd one I ever rode. With it being outdoors, you got to see the supports, and the lack of the MCBR made the ride haul through the second half of the layout. Following the ride on Carnival FoF, we rode Superman, Ride Of Steel. This ride made me go "What is this ride?" in the bad way.

Superman: Ride of Steel, was an Intamin hypercoaster, designed and built in year 2000. The funny thing, however, is that it was originally designed Six Flags Darien Lake, and without heartlining. To recap: the turns are janky, and it was definetly not designed for SFA. So when we rode it and the 5 second long section of straight track in the middle of the layout with no real reason to exist happened, I began to laugh really hard. It is literally just a section of straight track. We rode it twice, because it was on one train and had no line. Actually everything at this park was one train but we figured this was the best coaster at SFA, so we rode it twice. Every ride from this point would be downhill from here.

After a small break we rode Firebird, the oldest B&M known to man. Built as Iron Wolf, it was originally a standup coaster built in 1990 in Chicago, but now its in Maryland as a floorless conversion. The layout shows its age, and is not enjoyable. I had to fight to not get hurt on this B&M, however its the second worst B&M in my opinion because you actually engage with this ride. Patriot does nothing.

Following that, we did a break on the carousel and the antique cars. Both were not as good as Kings Dominions. Skywinder was next up, and it was my first Vekoma SLC since Flight Deck in 2019, and it was...pretty ok. It wasn't very smooth but the restraints were nice. It was at this time Taylor and I realized they had very little AC at SFA, and with it being 100f, it was not enjoyable. The park was largely not in a good state, it looked rather tired. It made me sad, and I wish it was better off, but it is closing 11/2/2025 so I am not surprised.

Roar was next, and all I can say about that ride is OW! I am never riding that again. It was a rough POS that made me want to leave. Yet at this time I had one more ride to take on, Ragin' Cajun. Its based off the Zamperla Wild Mouse model they had, but made by someone else. Cajun was really good, and smooth with lots of spinning. After this ride, Taylor, Graham, and I all decided we needed to go.

Before leaving, We took a look at the merch options at the front of the park. I was rather disappointed in the lack of merch that actually said Six Flags America, it all said Six Flags on it. It made me kinda upset, because I really wanted something that had the park name on it. The park itself was a sad park. I felt so sad walking around the mostly deserted park, that had been neglected for so long and when it finally started getting some investment, it was shutdown by Six Flags. It probably doesn't help that the park was in pretty bad shape, it would have taken awhile to fix everything. I really appreciate the opprotunity to visit the park once before it closed, I just wish it wasn't closing so soon.

To rank the rides from best to worst:

1: Superman - Ride of Steel

2: Joker's Jinx

3: Great Chase

4: Ragin' Cajun

5: Firebird

6: Professor Screamore's Skywinder

7: Roar

Despite its flaws, I’m glad I got to experience the park before it closes on November 2, 2025. Taylor vlogged the whole day click HERE to watch.