Trends · data through September 2026

Parks in the United States

Iceflower tracks 8,455 stores from 7,110 park chains in the United States. Overland Park grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Great Smoky Mountains and Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
7,110
Tracked stores
8,455
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked park chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Overland Park and Great Smoky Mountains sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Overland Park logo Overland Park - +12.9%
2 G Great Smoky Mountains ▲3 +12.0%
3 G Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop logo Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop ▲3 +11.8%
4 L Lake Elsinore ▲2 +10.5%
5 W Washington Park ▲1 +7.6%
6 L Lakewood Park ▲2 +7.2%
7 H Highland Park ▲1 +7.0%
8 L Lexington Park ▲3 +4.6%
9 F Forest Park ▲3 +2.5%
10 B Brooklyn Park ▲2 +2.4%
11 J Johnson Park ▲2 -0.3%
12 L Little River - -0.7%
13 H Hyde Park - -4.3%
14 H Heritage Park logo Heritage Park - -8.1%
15 L Lake George ▼2 -11.3%
  • Mariners Park
  • Cedar Point
  • Kalahari Resorts
  • San Tan Mountain Regional Park
  • Sunland Park
  • Water Country USA
  • Aquatica
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

8,455 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Mariners Park (1)
  • Cedar Point (1)
  • Kalahari Resorts (2)
  • San Tan Mountain Regional Park (1)
  • Sunland Park (2)
  • Water Country USA (1)
  • Aquatica (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Central Park 41
  • 2 R Riverside Park 29
  • 3 H Heritage Park logo Heritage Park 27
  • 4 W Washington Park 26
  • 5 P Park Place 24
  • 6 H Highland Park 23
  • 7 L Lincoln Park 19
  • 8 C City Park 15
  • 9 V Veterans Park logo Veterans Park 15
  • 10 F Franklin Park 13
  • 11 F Forest Park 10
  • 12 T The Commons 9
  • 13 N North Park 9
  • 14 H Hyde Park 8
  • 15 G Gateway Park 8
  • 16 P Park Avenue 7
  • 17 C College Park 6
  • 18 L Little River 6
  • 19 L Lakewood Park 5
  • 20 O Overland Park logo Overland Park 5
  • 21 S Stone Mountain 4
  • 22 L Lake George 4
  • 23 S Sugarloaf 4
  • 24 A Arlington Park 4
  • 25 W Water World logo Water World 4
  • 26 E Empire Park 4
  • 27 B Brooklyn Park 4
  • 28 G Great Smoky Mountains 4
  • 29 D Deer Park 3
  • 30 J Johnson Park 3
  • 31 C Cumberland Gap 3
  • 32 L Lake Compounce 3
  • 33 H Hocking Hills 3
  • 34 P Pinellas Park 3
  • 35 L Lexington Park 3
  • 36 L Lake Elsinore 3
  • 37 I Imperial Beach 3
  • 38 G Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop logo Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop 3
  • 39 C Catch Air logo Catch Air 3
  • 40 R Red River Gorge 3
  • 41 M Mississippi Gulf Coast 3
  • 42 A Admiral Baker Park 2
  • 43 P Penn Park 2
  • 44 K Kern River 2
  • 45 Y Yellowstone Forever logo Yellowstone Forever 2
  • 46 G Georgetown 2
  • 47 N Niagara Falls State Park 2
  • 48 T The Post Oak 2
  • 49 I Iron Mountain Hot Springs 2
  • 50 T Twin Falls 2

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