Six Flags Magic Mountain says it will reopen its parks in the spring, although it has not set a firm date and admits that the reopening depends on government rules for coronavirus.
Six Flags Entertainment Corp., which operates the Valencia theme park and 25 others in the US, Mexico and Canada, plans to open all of its parks for the 2021 season, the company said in a press release on Friday. The company is hiring park staff and working with government officials to set a date for the reopening in California, as well as in Illinois, Massachusetts, Mexico City and Canada, he said.
Six Flags Entertainment is trying to recover from a sharp drop in revenue that it suffered due to the closure of its parks nearly a year ago, on March 13. The company in May 2020 became the first major US theme park company to launch a set of security protocols for the reopening of all of its parks in the United States, saying it will limit the number of people allowed, check the temperature of and require everyone to wear masks and spread out in lines and on sidewalks.
Still, the reopening of its location in Valencia will be dictated by restrictions on coronavirus in California and Los Angeles County. LA County remains at the most restrictive “purple” level of the state’s four-phase color-coded reopening guidelines, meaning that virus transmission remains widespread and many companies must remain closed. According to the state’s reopening rules, a county must be rated at the least restrictive “yellow” level, meaning transmission is minimal, so that major theme parks are allowed to reopen.
The Times editor, Hugo Martín, contributed to this report.