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Park reopens to Members & Season Pass Holders on April 1-2, and everybody on April 3! Just like SFMM.

^I am curious about staffing as well. I am surprised they are opening so soon whereas parks like Disney and Knott's claimed they need time to re-hire and re-train. But YAY! Great news! I'll be there in May!

If the website lists them as an extra charge, then I would trust that. I had no desire to do those attractions (especially with COVID), I was only interested in the rides and coasters, so I can't tell you for sure.

I would anticipate everything being open when you visit. Even if you get unlucky with weather (April in Utah is quite unpredictable...), most rides will operate in rain or cold temperatures. As long as there is no crazy thunderstorm or snowstorm, you're good.

Thanks for sharing! One day I will finally get to BGW. It looks like a fantastic park.

^Oh, you're good dude! I would definitely recommend going if you get the chance. El Loco is, well, crazy as its name suggests. And for what it's worth, I barely spent 2 hours in the park and had more than enough time to do whatever I wanted. Perhaps you would want to spend longer, but I think spending a whole day here would be difficult. Individual ride tickets seem to be a thing of the past, so stay as long as you wish to justify the $40 wristband!

I am very surprised you found the coaster rough. That would genuinely shock me, since 2/3 of the track is now IBox. The existing wooden parts - that's fair game. Haven't ridden Lightning Rod, but I've ridden a half-dozen or so IBox coasters and none of them were remotely rough in any shape or form. Not trying to negate your experience (since I haven't ridden), but that is why I would be super shocked!

Great news. I will be back in SoCal for a few weeks in late May and early June. I'm excited to visit the park again! I just recently passed the one year mark of my last visit (with coasters). I don't think I have ever gone one whole year without visiting the park since I was a toddler...

There is no skip-the-line pass, as previously mentioned. I have never had issues with crowds in April. The only real crazy crowded days at the park are in September and October when the weather is perfect and Frightmares attracts a ton more people in the park than usual. Otherwise the park is usually pretty manageable when it comes to wait times, especially in the Spring where many people don't even realize the park is open and usually don't visit until the Summer.

Wonderful photos. Thanks for sharing! I am pumped for this coaster. No, it won't be "best in the world" (I don't know why we ever set those expectations for any new coaster), but it is going to kick a$$. Crazy hang time and theming in the first half, then a 70mph launch into a top hat, zero-G stall, funky inner and outer banked turns, and a fast heartline roll over water? All with comfortable and minimalist lap bars? Yeah, sign me up. This and Iron Gwazi (and Ice Breaker, I suppose) are all the more reason I am excited to move to Florida in a few months.

I remember SFOG being much more hilly than I expected during my first visit, but not to the point where signs are necessary. I am curious to know their reasoning for that as well. Maybe they should put one at SFMM. The path from Jet Stream up to Ninja, which passes by the Full Throttle tunnel, is still the steepest walkway I have every experienced at a park.

Lagoon has published their 2021 calendar on their website. They open for the season on March 20th, which is the earliest they have opened in recent memory. Great news! Anyone planning on hitting up the park opening weekend?

The first half is quite a bit faster with full trains. The empty trains always crawl. With all the scenery and hang time though, I'm still stoked. The second half hauls a$$ whether the train is empty or full. That final barrel roll looks top-notch. I don't understand how anybody can take a look at this coaster and *not* be excited! Are you even an enthusiast at that point?

That's a bummer. It was closed when I went in 2019, but for some reason that didn't surprise me. Hopefully the one at Great Adventure sticks around for a while.

Looks nice! This reminds me that many parks that never opened last year and are still closed could've taken this time to repaint some coasters. I know Carowinds did with Intimidator. I really wish Knott's repainted Xcelerator or SFMM repainted Tatsu during the last year. It would've been the perfect time with no people in the park to deal with. But I'm sure they weren't anticipating being closed for a year, and of course $$$ as well during an already difficult time. Good for CGA!

I didn't think I would live to see the day

I was hesitant about the color scheme when it was first announced, but I really like it based on those photos.

Great report(s)! Reading them gets me very excited for my possible (and likely) move to Florida this June. The thought of having all of these parks as home parks is exciting! Hopefully Iron Gwazi will open soon. I'm starting to think it's just a statue at this point...

Nice to hear about all the improvements going on at the park. I am interested to see what happens with Mystery Mine. I have never ridden it, but retracking/reprofiling a steel coaster is always interesting and a bit unusual.

Those harnesses do like they were slightly redesigned. I'm sure they'll feel the same though. Can't wait to see some track go in!

The only one that comes to mind is Flash/V2 at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. I visited the park for the first time in July 2018, and it was closed as it was being transformed and repainted into the Flash. I visited the park again in July 2019, and it was closed. The frustrating part is that according to that Queue Times website, it was operating the day before AND after. Just not the day I was there. We were at CGA the day after, when it reopened. We were tempted to leave CGA and drive up to ride it (since I knew I wouldn't be back in NorCal for a while), but it was during rush hour and ultimately not worth it. Harley Quinn was also closed during both visits in '18 and '19 but I literally didn't care at all. On the flip side, a "lucky opportunity" for me was being able to ride Volcano. We had a 1.5 days at Kings Dominion in 2017, our first time at the park, and the weather was not looking too good. We had heard the ride was experiencing issues that season. We got incredibly lucky and snagged four rides on it that day, and the weather cleared up afterwards. When its removal was announced, I became SO thankful it opened that day.

^Thank you, I appreciate that. Still waiting to hear about my job opportunity in West Palm Beach. The thought of living 3-ish hours from all the Florida parks is incredibly exciting, plus I'll never have to scrape snow off my car again...

I am interested to see how this will play out. I would not expect any drastic changes this year, except possibly an expanded operating season. I am hoping they steer this park in the Dollywood/SDC direction as opposed to the Wild Adventures direction. Regardless, Lightning Run and Storm Chaser are still enough to entice me to visit the park someday.

My brother is a total car nut and would love to do something like this. He's been wanting to ride West Coast Racers for the theming alone (regardless of what the coaster is like), but COVID hit. I think the appeal is definitely there. As someone else said, I don't think this would work anywhere else besides Southern California. The LA street-racing, car enthusiast crowd is very prominent and I think Six Flags is genius for taking advantage of that and building West Coast Racers and theming the entire area around it, as well as doing this event when the park is closed.

Yay for results! Thank you to all involved. These rankings are so much more fun to analyze than the vastly overrated GTAs. Skyrush taking #3 steel and #7 overall makes my heart happy. I haven't ridden it in 5 years but very few coasters, if any, match its intensity and awesomeness. I can't wait to ride it again.