Six Flags Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita, CA is open year-round and has a water park that is open around 100 days a year. Children two years old and younger receive free admission, and guests do not need a Season Pass until they turn three years old. For those seeking more adventure, Six Flags hours during weekends are pushed back to 8:00 PM.
The park’s hours vary significantly throughout the year and can change based on the season. The best time to visit is between January and April, on a weekday, especially Tuesdays and Wednesdays, as the least amount of people will be at the park. The park is also home to California’s largest single-site commercial solar energy and storage project.
Magic Mountain is typically open rain or shine, but may be closed on select weekdays in November and December. Starting November 1, 2022, Six Flags Magic Mountain will no longer be open every day of the year, starting November 1. All Season Entry and Unlimited Access to All Rides and Attraction Valid for Entry between September 2024 to April 2025.
All Zones are now open daily for the season, and the BLT opens for the summer on May 31st. Hours are 4-10pm on Thursdays/Fridays, 11am-11pm on Saturdays, and 11am-7pm on Sundays for lunch and dinner. This remarkable park operates year-round, committing to serious fun, rain or shine.
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I just went to magic mountain recently and the quality of life has greatly improved throughout the park, I’ve noticed it’s been more clean than my previous visit and I got duals every time I rode twisted colossus. Also the only major ride closed was Superman, which made since because it was a little windy.
I agree that the merger is prioritizing the guest experience before we get the next big coaster, but contrary to others I think that coaster is still being actively developed. How I see it is 2025 is for fixing the parks issues and 2026 is the new giga/extreme spinner/vekoma that will bring clientele back to show off the park’s progress.
I’m very intrigued for the future of Six Flags Magic Mountain and how it would become a top-tier park, just like the legacy Cedar Fair parks. Even though I’m sad about the possible removal of Viper in the next few years, I honestly think a record-breaking Giga Coaster located on Viper’s plot of land would definitely make sense. To add to your bold predictions, I think that the park could benefit from the addition of some new entertainment (i.e. shows, streetmosphere characters, a nighttime parade during the summer months).
Bear Theatre was never going to be 2025. It was always going to be 2026. 2025 is the Water Park upgrades. Also upgrades around park. I agree with you on the viper removal. It is not getting the ridership. Plot for giga is somewhat what I thought also. Alot of clearing has been done behind and around Roaring Rapids. I also have imagined the new giga being part of the entrance. So much room in front. We also need reliable transport ride up the back of mountain. Trees, trees, trees. SHADE!!!
They aren’t getting a giga. SFMM financials are trash compared to top 4 or 5 legacy Cedar Fair parks. CF management are in control and they aren’t spending big with highly suspect ROI potential. They also know SFMM problems are not that they don’t have enough coasters, it’s everything else from food, staffing, ops, atmosphere, etc…that prevents them from having the pricing power that other Southern Cal parks have. These deficiencies have attracted a lower clientele, CF management is going to try to change all the things that are their glaring deficits.
I love Magic Mountain. I have a lot of great memories there. But it’s the park that I think falls furthest from it’s realistic potential. This place could honestly be better than Cedar Point in the right hands but it has not been there. I have a lot of thoughts on improving the park and it all starts with refurbishing and reopening the Sky Tower. That would not only be fun but it would send a clear signal that the park is on a new trajectory. I also have a lot of fantasy ideas -Replace Viper with an Intamin prefab to give the west coast answer to El Toro -Replace Scream with a new Vekoma looper and surround it with landscaping and hide the bottom of the coaster from view of the parking lot so it feels like it’s really part of the park -Give it a giga but use Goliath’s plot -Completely change the entrance experience. I know there’s a lot to say there but the entrance needs to be closer to the parking lot and far more grand. Maybe people enter between TC and Scream’s replacement and add a ton of foliage and maybe some theming as you enter the park. And my craziest idea: Give Superman a skyscraper facade with the Lex Corp logo at the top. Then replace the current track with a launched flying coaster that has you launch out of the station, do an in line twist and then ascend the tower vertically only to go over the tower and dive down the other side head first before turning into a large helix that brings you back towards the mountain but then you will dive, go through airtime pops, loop, barrel roll and so on to simulate Superman flying over the building’s of Metropolis as you return to the station.
As far as “guest satisfaction” for me Magic Mountain is already #1 in the chain. Post-merger. While I’ll admit the “what rides will be closed” is a battle with Magic Mountain I’ve never seen any of the big 5 (Full Throttle, Wonder Woman, Tatsu, Twisted Colossus, X2) closed. It’s always supporting rides like Superman, Apocalypse, Riddler’s Revenge, West Coast Racers, ect. Maybe since it’s one of my home parks it just doesn’t upset me to have a few rides closed but it’s honestly hard to go to a park and not have that kind of thing happen these days. I like the park because every time I’ve gone I’ve noticed fast operations, the top coasters open, and it may be a personal reason but they have acai bowls which makes food in the park accessible to me as a health foodie.
Six Flags Magic Mountain needs full service hotel with park access similar to Disneyland’s hotel in Anaheim. That way they could offer full service to the Coaster Fanatics during the off-season. Love the last prediction of a Giga-coaster replacing Viper. Maybe they could name it Black Mamba after Kobe Bryant? It is L.A. adjacent.
Ya really hope things like food and overall atmosphere around the park gets improved including fright fest cause that event is a supper mess right now. They really need to leave the IPs to HHN. Also ya unfortunately as much as i dont want it to happen i can see viper getting removed by 2030. The coater still runs nice especially in the front row and that things really has been moving through the course. But it will be 40 years old by 2030 so probably would be time for a replacement. Getting the giga coaster though i dont know. The people who moved behind magic are already complaining about the noise and want the park to take the noise level down. I agree that at this point i can see the 2025 project being pushed to 2026. I still think thats going to be some kind of multi launch family coaster. I could be wrong but it makes sense for where the location is. I really want a mack extreme spinner since its also something magic is missing.
As cool as SFMMs entrance is, I never truly liked how far it was from the parking lot. I highly doubt theyd build an entire parking garage cus those cost big bucks, But I feel like they should make the entrance of the park somewhere near and inbetween TC and Scream. Theyd have tons of space cus that parking lot is huge. Then theyd bulldoze the old one and add a few flat rides in between and call the old plaza “fountain side ridge” or something like that.
I would make the old Laughing Dragon restaurant be the station for a Giga, or at least use the location of it. You get the added height of Samurai Summit and the bonus of being able to run a first drop down the mountain to make a record-breaking drop. Especially if you make the drop go into a tunnel like Goliath does. Viper doesn’t need to be removed, it just needs some TLC like new trains, maybe a bit of reprofiling in a couple of spots, and fresh paint. It should be an ACE landmark, along with X2, which is the costlier ride to maintain and operate.
I really hope you’re wrong about the removal of viper I haven’t even rode the viper yet. I want to get a few rides on the viper before they remove it. But at the same time I really want them to keep it because it’s one of a kind and it’s a arrow looper and arrow dynamics is not around anymore and it’ll be very sad to see it go😢.
I would like to see the park add family attractions and some shows they need more than coasters at this point to attract more visitors I been going to the park since 1993 so anything the park announces doesn’t impress me anymore because it’s been a ton of whatever coasters in my opinion except for TC and Wonder Woman
2025 coaster was always going to be a 2026 coaster as Six Flags never delivered anything on time. Viper I don’t know on this one. While I see arrows on their way out, I can also see someone like Verkoma or even Zamperla stepping up and revitalizing it. Giga, yeah this might be the only park in the merged Cedar Fair/Six Flags to get one but this will happen at some point and yes it will take take Fury’s record, love the idea of the interaction with the terrain and being how hilly Magic Mountain is it almost has to. Here is the thing, both Six Flags and Cedar Fair have been on the kick of revitalizing sections of their parks, theming, etc. I see that happening here as well. I don’t know if this is a top 3 park for me, but I can see them pushing this to that status in the next 5 years.
So as someone who just went two weeks ago… IT HAS GOTTEN WORSE. Worst operations of any park i have ever been to. All wait times in the app said 10 mins or less but waits were usually at least an hour. Fast pass waits were so long too. ALL of the water from the soda machines tasted like LITERALLY FART. You can tell they really don’t care about this park anymore.
Honestly they should just buy out them houses so that the neighbors stop being pesky little rats and tear down those houses and build on top of that plot of land so they have more land to build roller coasters on. 😂😂😂 Although they should just buy out them houses and build employee housing there or fill them up with the employees that work at magic mountain.