Who owns Carowinds?
Carowinds is owned by Six Flags (the United States, NYSE: FUN).[1]
Evidence: Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26, SEC EDGAR, 26 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Six Flags Entertainment Corporation verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Charlotte
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Charlotte
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Franchises & parks › Theme parks
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: FUN
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Carowinds
Carowinds is the amusement park on the North Carolina and South Carolina border near Charlotte, owned by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation. Its FY2025 10-K lists it as an owned park dated 2006, with Camp Wilderness Resort and a SpringHill Suites hotel among the resort properties attached to it.
What Six Flags's annual report says about Carowinds
Sentences about Carowinds from Six Flags's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
(5) Carowinds also features Camp Wilderness Resort, an upscale campground, and a SpringHill Suites by Marriott hotel located adjacent to the park entrance.
How often Six Flags names Carowinds in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Carowinds
Where Carowinds sits in Six Flags
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Six Flags
Six Flags controls 11 brands on Brandtree, 11 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
Other brands in theme parks, and who owns them
Six Flags has more brands in theme parks on Brandtree than any other owner: 11 of 39.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Adventure Island | United Parks | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Xavage | Grupo Xcaret | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Adventure Cove Waterpark | Genting | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Magic Planet | Majid Al Futtaim | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates |
| Harmonyland | Sanrio | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Universal Destinations & Experiences | Comcast | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Disney Parks | Disney | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Boomers Parks | Lucky Strike Entertainment | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Six Flags
Six Flags is a publicly listed company headquartered in Charlotte, United States. Brandtree records 11 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: FUN.
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is the company formed when Cedar Fair and the former Six Flags merged; the merger closed on 1 July 2024 and the combined company took the Six Flags name. Its FY2025 10-K lists 26 amusement parks, 15 separately gated water parks and nine resort properties in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Two of the parks, Six Flags Over Texas and Six Flags Over Georgia, are held through partnerships and are not wholly owned. The company also manages Six Flags Qiddiya City in Saudi Arabia under an agreement for fees and holds licences for Warner Bros., DC Comics and Peanuts characters, so those character brands are not its own.
🇺🇸 Carowinds and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Carowinds is not one of them.
- 20th Century Studios — Disney 🇺🇸
- AMC — AMC Networks 🇺🇸
- AMC Theatres — AMC Theatres 🇺🇸
- AMF — Lucky Strike Entertainment 🇺🇸
- Adventure Island — United Parks 🇺🇸
- Antenna TV — Nexstar 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Carowinds?
The parent company of Carowinds is Six Flags, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Carowinds American?
Yes. Carowinds originated in the United States and its owner, Six Flags, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Carowinds still owned by Six Flags?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Carowinds is still owned by Six Flags. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 26 February 2026; retrieved 3 October 2026.
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