Six Flags Frontier City
vs
Six Flags Magic Mountain

On a typical day Six Flags Frontier City queues less: about 7 minutes a ride against 13 at Six Flags Magic Mountain, a difference of roughly 6 minutes on every queue you join.

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01 · On a typical day

What you would normally queue.

Averages across recent weeks, so one broken ride or one wet Tuesday cannot decide it. This is the comparison to plan a trip on; the live figures below are the one to act on today.

Six Flags Frontier City and Six Flags Magic Mountain compared on their typical recorded queue times
Typically	Six Flags Frontier CityUnited States	Six Flags Magic MountainUnited States
Average wait per ride	7 min (best of the two)	13 min
Rides with recorded waits	21	37 (best of the two)
Longest typical queue	Renegade Rapids12 min	Roaring Rapids41 min
Shortest typical queue	Tina's Tea Cup Twirl5 min	Taz’s Tazmanian Train Tours5 min
Average ride uptime Share of opening hours a ride is running	90%	94% (best of the two)

Averaged across every ride at each park with recorded waits. A ride that never opened is left out, so a park is not flattered by counting a shut ride as a queue of zero.

02 · Right now

Both parks, this minute.

Live queue times at both parks. These fill in as soon as the page loads, and keep updating while you are here.

Six Flags Frontier City and Six Flags Magic Mountain compared on live queue times
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These keep refreshing while this page is open. A closed park posts no waits, so its rows read as dashes rather than zeroes.

Verdict, on a typical day On a typical day Six Flags Frontier City queues less: about 7 minutes a ride against 13 at Six Flags Magic Mountain, a difference of roughly 6 minutes on every queue you join.

03 · Choosing

Which one is your day out.

Every line here is earned by one of the figures above - nothing is a generic sentence with a park name dropped into it.

Pick Six Flags Frontier City if…

You want shorter queues: Six Flags Frontier City averages 7 minutes a ride against 13 at Six Flags Magic Mountain
Renegade Rapids is on your list - it is Six Flags Frontier City's longest typical queue at about 12 minutes, so it is the one to do first
You want Six Flags Frontier City's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

Pick Six Flags Magic Mountain if…

You will accept a longer queue - 13 minutes a ride here against 7 at Six Flags Frontier City - for what Six Flags Magic Mountain has that Six Flags Frontier City does not
You want more to do: 37 rides here have recorded wait data against 21 at Six Flags Frontier City
You would rather not find rides shut: Six Flags Magic Mountain's rides run 94% of opening hours against 90% at Six Flags Frontier City
Roaring Rapids is on your list - it is Six Flags Magic Mountain's longest typical queue at about 41 minutes, so it is the one to do first
You want Six Flags Magic Mountain's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

04 · The parks

What each one is.

Six Flags Frontier City

Frontier City sits in Oklahoma City and is the smallest of the Six Flags parks, themed around an Old West town. The coaster line-up includes Steel Lasso, Silver Bullet (a Vekoma corkscrew), Diamond Back (a shuttle-style coaster), Wildcat wooden coaster, and Mystery River Log Flume. A White Water Bay water park operates at a separate nearby site during summer.

Oklahoma school holidays, US summer weekends and the Fright Fest event drive Frontier City's peak crowds. Weekdays outside school breaks stay very quiet, often with walk-on queue times. Check live wait times on arrival and use our crowd calendar to pick a midweek visit - Frontier City pairs well with a road-trip stop rather than a destination-park holiday.

Six Flags Frontier City live queue times

Six Flags Magic Mountain

Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, holds the world record for most roller coasters at a single park - currently 20 distinct coasters. Highlights include X2 (a 4-D prototype), Twisted Colossus, Tatsu (a flying coaster), Full Throttle, Superman: Escape from Krypton, Goliath, and Wonder Woman Flight of Courage. The park's hilly footprint gives many rides dramatic terrain-following drops.

Magic Mountain's LA-area weekend visits, US school holidays, Fright Fest and Holiday in the Park events drive peak crowds. Weekdays outside school breaks can be dramatically quieter. Check live queue times for X2 and Twisted Colossus on arrival - they build up fastest - and use our crowd calendar to pick a lower-crowd midweek date if you want to ride all 20 coasters in a single day.

Six Flags Magic Mountain live queue times

05 · Questions

Six Flags Frontier City or Six Flags Magic Mountain?

Which is better, Six Flags Frontier City or Six Flags Magic Mountain?

If you are judging on queues, Six Flags Frontier City: it averages about 7 minutes a ride on a typical day against 13 at Six Flags Magic Mountain, roughly 6 minutes back on every queue you join. Six Flags Frontier City has 21 rides with recorded waits against 37 at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Six Flags Magic Mountain also runs its rides more reliably - 94% of opening hours against 90%.

Which has shorter queues, Six Flags Frontier City or Six Flags Magic Mountain?

Six Flags Frontier City, by about 6 minutes a ride. On a typical day Six Flags Frontier City averages 7 minutes against 13 at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Queues still move hour by hour, and a midweek day outside school holidays beats the gap at either park. See Six Flags Frontier City best time to visit and Six Flags Magic Mountain best time to visit to pick a quiet day.

Can I visit Six Flags Frontier City and Six Flags Magic Mountain in the same trip?

Yes - both parks are in United States, so a two-park trip is realistic over a long weekend. Split the days so you start at whichever opens earliest and drive to the other in the evening.

How many rides does each park have?

See the tables above for ride counts - or jump to Six Flags Frontier City and Six Flags Magic Mountain for the full ride lists.

Is Six Flags Frontier City bigger than Six Flags Magic Mountain?

By rides we track waits for, Six Flags Magic Mountain is the bigger day out: 37 rides against 21. Acreage matters less than how many you can actually get on, which comes down to queues and opening hours - and on those Six Flags Frontier City is the quicker park.

Then pick
the quiet day.

Both parks have a crowd calendar with six weeks of forecast and the best day left to go.

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