Six Flags Fiesta Texas
— the canyon walls that hold the coaster track.
Not only on a wall.
“A theme park built inside a former limestone quarry on the northwest edge of San Antonio. Opened in 1992 with a Texas-music theming idea: a small German town, a border-canyon Western, a Latin festival square, all of it still legible under the steel of the coasters. The quarry walls are the trick. They hold the sound in and the late afternoon heat out.
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The place, in three passes.
Six Flags Fiesta Texas sits on the northwest side of San Antonio, near the interchange of Interstate 10 and Loop 1604, on land that was once a Beldon Concrete limestone quarry. The park opened on March 14, 1992, originally a USAA and Opryland venture themed to Texas music. Five themed sections wrap the quarry rim: Los Festivales, Crackaxle Canyon, Spassburg, Rockville, and Fiesta Bay Boardwalk. The site spans roughly 200 acres, with about a hundred feet of relief between the quarry floor and the surrounding ridge.
The walls are Glen Rose limestone, Cretaceous marine sediment that San Antonio sits on and that quarrymen pulled out of this hole for decades before the park opened. The Iron Rattler coaster, rebuilt in 2013 on the old wooden Rattler track, runs straight along that rim and dives back down into the cut. The pale stone faces are part of the park's signature. They show up in every aerial photo of the place and they are the reason the late afternoon heat stays bearable in the lower sections of the canyon.
The park runs roughly March through early January, with Fright Fest in October and Holiday in the Park from mid-November. Hurricane Harbor, the adjacent water park, operates Memorial Day through Labor Day. Parking is paid; tickets are cheaper online than at the gate. The signature rides are Iron Rattler, Superman Krypton Coaster, Goliath, and Wonder Woman Golden Lasso, the world's first single-rail launch coaster, opened in 2018. The official address is 17000 W Interstate 10, San Antonio, about seventeen miles from downtown.