Which Six Flags parks will be sold?

[ECG]

Gilroy Gardens left Cedar Fair in December 2021, the last park to do so before the merger with Six Flags. However, during the latest quarterly earnings call last week, the corporation announced that it will be selling some of its small parks. They didn’t say which parks were for sale and the Los Angeles Daily News speculates that the smaller Frontier City, Valleyfair, Worlds of Fun, Michigan’s Adventure, Great Escape, and Darien Lake properties are all on the "marketplace". Six Flags America joins them due to its proximity to Kings Dominion while California’s Great America's scheduled demise will likely save Discovery Kingdom, eliminating competing parks in the same markets. The two New York parks have coexisted for years, but Six Flags only serves as Darien Lake's lease operator. Three larger parks "on the bubble" are La Ronde, Six Flags St. Louis, and Six Flags Fiesta Texas.
The Schlitterbahn properties in Texas rank first and third in attendance among Six Flags water parks, but four stand-alone water parks in Northern California, Texas, Georgia, and Mexico, are likely for sale because they're not directly tied to amusement parks and are among the smallest locations in the chain. The Phoenix water park also makes the TEA/AECOM Top 20 North American water parks list, but that might not be enough to keep it.

I would think Fiesta Texas should be safe, but I don't know where the park attendance ranks. I can see all the rest being sold, but I hope none are shuttered if they're not purchased.
On a personal note, I hope ending the Darien Lake lease is enough to save Great Escape. The park has improved a lot since the rebrand and it would be a shame to see it fall into the hands of Parques Reunidos or the like.

 

[Fiender]

SF announced that it would "sell some of its non core parks under the right circumstances". They didn't say "Oh, yes, we are DEFINITELY selling every single park except the absolute highest earners".
Great Escape by all accounts does very well for its market. It doesn't need "saving". Likewise, Darien Lake also does fairly well. Despite it not being owned by the chain properly, DL is still profitable, and more and more pictures of Darien Lake are showing up on SF social media. I doubt they're looking to jettison either of these properties.

Fiesta Texas is one of the chain's darlings. It's not going anywhere, and the notion that it might is just doomer nonsense.
SF Mexico and La Ronde also make significant bank for the chain despite not getting a new ride every single year.

Really, while anything can happen with the merger, I simply expect some non-adjacent plots of land to be sold, along with some of the off-site water parks.

 

[ECG]

SF announced that it would "sell some of its non core parks under the right circumstances". They didn't say "Oh, yes, we are DEFINITELY selling every single park except the absolute highest earners".

Unless I completely misread the article, The Daily News isn't saying Six Flags is selling every park except the top earners. Yes, they listed the top parks as "untouchable", but the article is mostly about the likely candidates and the reasoning behind those choices. Time will tell how many and which ones are sold.

 

[MaxxForceFan]

Here is a breakdown of the owned and leased parks from the new annual report. Six Flags plans to purchase the remaining shares of the Georgia and Texas partnership parks in 2027 and 2028. They did announce on the earnings call that the undeveloped land around Kings Dominion is already for sale.

Someone on /r/sixflags is claiming that Six Flags St. Louis is being marketed to homebuilders in the area.

 

[Hixee]

Great Adventure is laughably huge in comparison to the rest...! I presume that's mostly as a result of the Safari?

Also makes you realise just how big CP is. I think the 'water on all sides' thing makes it feel smaller than it is. Impressive!