Six Flags America was a 131-acre (53 ha) amusement park in Woodmore, Maryland, United States, within the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. It had a water park named Hurricane Harbor Maryland. Founded as a wildlife center in 1974 by Ross Perot, ABC television operated the park as a drive-through safari called The Largo Wildlife Preserve, from 1974 until its closure in 1978. The property was bought by Jim Fowler's Wild Kingdom; thereafter, the site was gradually converted from a wildlife preserve into a theme park named Wild World.