Six Flags to reorg, no plans to close more parks after Six Flags America
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation will reorganize its corporate workforce to eliminate 10% of full-time staff, and the company will not close any other parks after Six Flags America shutters.
Six Flags reorg
Six Flags is undergoing a corporate restructuring, CEO Richard Zimmerman said during a quarterly earnings call on May 8, 2025. The reorg will reduce the company’s “full-time head count,” as Zimmerman phrased it, by more than 10%.
Zimmerman said the restructuring began earlier this month by eliminating “multiple senior executive leadership positions at the corporate level,” though he didn’t mention names or positions. The restructure also “consolidated functional ownership under a few key leads.”
Photo by Blake Taylor
Six Flags merged with Cedar Fair in 2024, resulting in a combined portfolio of 42 parks. Prior to the merger, Zimmerman was president and CEO of Cedar Fair.
“These changes and others we have underway,” Zimmerman elaborated, “will create new opportunities for the next generation of leadership within the company, support the cultivation of talent across the organization, and meaningfully reduce costs.”
These decisions and other initiatives will save the company $16 million beyond its original goals by the end of 2026.
No plans to close more parks
Last week, the company announced Six Flags America and its accompanying water park, Hurricane Harbor, will permanently close at the end of the 2025 operating season in Bowie, Md. (near Baltimore and Washington, D.C.). No other parks will close for now.
“As it relates to future divestiture of assets, we don’t have any plans to close any additional parks at this time,” Zimmerman said during the May 8 call. “We will continue to evaluate all options and consider other potential transactions to enhance shareholder value. In the meantime, we are excited at the prospect of operating all 42 of our parks for the 2025 season.”
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Six Flags will also divest excess land near Richmond, Va., presumably adjacent to Kings Dominion, a legacy Cedar Fair park now under Six Flags’ domain. Kings Dominion itself will remain operational.
The company will share its growth objectives through 2028 during an “Investor Day” event on May 20.
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Many folks that had memberships at this park had it mysteriously canceled in late 2023 and had to buy season passes. I would look into this as if the problem was systemic it may be the reason revenue for this park was much lower than it could have been. I went to customer service to add two members and found out 4 had been canceled 45 days prior.
Six Flags America is MY home park and I am extremely angry that you are closing it. Now I’m even angrier that this is the only park you’re closing. SFA is only 45 minutes away from me. All other parks take at least 2 or more hours to get to and I can’t do that! I have been a season pass holder since it became Six Flags America and was a pass holder when it was Adventure World. I am 73 and it too far for me to go to other parks now. So I couldn’t care less what happens to your other parks!
From a very angry SFA lover!