Skara Sommarland

Skara Sommarland is a summer park located 8 km east of Skara. It was founded in 1984 by Swedish entrepreneur Bert Karlsson. The park attracts 350,000 visitors annually. During the 1980s, it once attracted circa 800 000 people within one year.[1]

Skara Sommarland
Skara Sommarland
LocationSkara, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Coordinates58.40423°N 13.552322°E / 58.40423; 13.552322
OwnerParks & Resorts Scandinavia AB
Opened1984
Operating seasonJune - August
Attractions
Roller coasters3
Websitewww.sommarland.se

Attractions

Roller coasters

Name Manufacturer Type Opening date
Gruvbanan Mack Rides Powered roller coaster 1987
Spinner Maurer Söhne Spinning roller coaster 2011
Tranan S&S Worldwide Free Fly 2009

Former attractions

Name Manufacturer Operating Years Replaced by
Stand Up Intamin 1988-1994 (Relocated to La Ronde, in Montreal)
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gollark: Also, they could probably just live somewhere with less wildly inflated house pricing.
gollark: > I want the scientists in society to have a place to exist too.I mean, I don't disagree, but just "give whoever rents it first a freeish house" doesn't seem like a good mechanism for that. Unless you mean they do "give whoever they find cool a freeish house", which is... also bad in other ways.
gollark: If it was actually possible to add more housing, it would be much easier to fix.
gollark: We somehow deal with this problem in basically every *other* market.

References

  1. Christopher Johansson (28 May 2009). "Sommarland hoppas på besöksinvasion" (in Swedish). Sveriges radio. Retrieved 21 December 2013.

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