SIX FLAGS New Orleans 2016 Aerials

SIX FLAGS New Orleans
(abandoned September 2005)
Built in 2000 as JAZZLAND, its poorly chosen location in a sweltering and unshaded swamp did not draw the large crowds its investors had planned. The 75 year lease was then bought by Six Flags, at which time improvements were made to the park including some very thrilling and popular rides and several shaded areas to escape the oppressive heat and humidity.
Six Flags was about to announce a water park expansion,
but on August 28, 2005, the marquee at the entrance simply said:
"CLOSED FOR STORM"
The park was buried by the stagnant floodwaters from the failed levees for several weeks. It never reopened.
Six Flags eventually removed the few salvageable rides and got out of their lease.
What was left behind is what you would expect from such an event; jaw dropping absolute unfathomable destruction. So hard to think of all the memories so many people had . . . all just washed away in the muck and the mire . . .
The City of New Orleans is trying to rid itself of this property. It has become so overgrown and such an embarrassment and eyesore, the only income is from the occasional film production where the large empty spaces prove useful.
Although NO TRESPASSING signs abound, there are "trespassers" almost daily who want nothing more than to see the wrath of Katrina and the subsequent flooding. Personally I think there should be a day when it opens for people who wish to see what weeks of filthy, stagnant floodwater can do to a place, particularly to one that had brought so many smiles to so many people.
Visiting this park and trespassing IS NOT ENCOURAGED -
you could be arrested or worse become victim to the alligators, wild boars and cotton mouth snakes that have taken over the park!!