If you lived in Houston between 1968 and 2005, the odds are good the first time you sat behind the wheel of a car was at the ...

We look back at the demise of Six Flags AstroWorld and consider why Houston never got another major theme park. This month has already been a rough ride for visitors to a pair of amusement parks.

So Six Flags sold it off, and after Oct. 30, 2005, AstroWorld was no more. Houston didn’t take the closure well. “It’s like telling children there’s no more Santa Claus,” one adult ...

Six Flags Magic Mountain filed paperwork ... Busch Gardens Florida and AstroWorld in Houston, crafted the park a decade and a half after Disneyland opened. The first version had 33 rides, three ...