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Six Flags Frontier City and Six Flags Magic Mountain queue about the same on a typical day - 9 minutes against 9 minutes across 23 and 37 tracked rides. Pick on travel time or on which rides you actually want.

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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
TypicallySix Flags Frontier CityUnited StatesSix Flags Magic MountainUnited States
Average wait per ride 9 min9 min
Rides with recorded waits 2337 (best of the two)
Longest typical queue Gunslinger20 minWest Coast Racers22 min
Shortest typical queue Tina's Tea Cup Twirl5 minTaz’s Tazmanian Train Tours5 min
Average ride uptime Share of opening hours a ride is running75%86% (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
Right nowSix Flags Frontier CityUnited StatesSix Flags Magic MountainUnited States
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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 Six Flags Frontier City and Six Flags Magic Mountain queue about the same on a typical day - 9 minutes against 9 minutes across 23 and 37 tracked rides. Pick on travel time or on which rides you actually want.

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…

  • Queue length will not decide it: both parks average around 9 minutes a ride
  • Gunslinger is on your list - it is Six Flags Frontier City's longest typical queue at about 20 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…

  • Queue length will not decide it: both parks average around 9 minutes a ride
  • You want more to do: 37 rides here have recorded wait data against 23 at Six Flags Frontier City
  • You would rather not find rides shut: Six Flags Magic Mountain's rides run 86% of opening hours against 75% at Six Flags Frontier City
  • West Coast Racers is on your list - it is Six Flags Magic Mountain's longest typical queue at about 22 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?

On queues there is nothing in it: both average about 9 minutes a ride on a typical day. Six Flags Frontier City has 23 rides with recorded waits against 37 at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Six Flags Magic Mountain also runs its rides more reliably - 86% of opening hours against 75%. So pick on travel time, or on which park has the rides you actually want.

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

They are level. Six Flags Frontier City averages 9 minutes a ride on a typical day and Six Flags Magic Mountain averages 9 - close enough that the day you pick matters more than the 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 23. Acreage matters less than how many you can actually get on, which comes down to queues and opening hours.

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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