Six Flags Magic Mountain says it will reopen its parks in the spring, though it has not yet determined, and admits the reopening depends on government-issued coronavirus rules.
Six Flags Entertainment Corp., which operates the Valencia theme park and 25 others in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, plans to open all of its parks for the 2021 season, the company said in a news release Friday. The company hires park workers and works with government officials to set a reopening date in California, as well as in Illinois, Massachusetts, Mexico City and Canada.
Six Flags Entertainment wants to recover from a sharp drop in revenue it suffered due to the closure of its parks almost a year ago, on March 13th. In May 2020, the company became the first major U.S. theme park company to release a set of security protocols for the reopening of all of its U.S. parks, saying it would limit the number of people allowed, monitor guests’ temperatures, and that everyone should wear to wear masks and spread out in lines and rides.
However, the reopening of the location in Valencia will be determined by coronavirus restrictions in California and in Los Angeles County. LA County remains in the most restrictive “purple” level of the state’s four-phase color-coded reopening guidelines, meaning the spread of the virus remains widespread and many businesses must remain closed. According to the state’s reopening rules, a country must be classified in the least limited ‘yellow’ level, which means that the transfer is minimal, so that large theme parks can be reopened.
The author of the Times, Hugo Martín, contributed to this report.