FRONTIER CITY
and White Water Bay
Oklahoma City
Owned by EPR Properties
Managed by Six Flags Theme Parks
 Park News - (4/12/2025) Some interesting things happening at Frontier City as the park ramps up for the 2025 season. A quick look at the park schedule for the month of April and beyond has locals concerned, because the park is open only on Saturdays for some reason.
Starting today, April 12 through to May 3rd you can only visit on Saturdays, and starting on May 9th, the park will then move to add only Friday evenings (6pm to 10pm) to that schedule, and still keep a simple 11am to 7pm schedule on Saturdays for most of May, with zero operating days on Sunday until May 25th when the park begins a daily operating schedule.
That isn’t the end of the concern however, as even when they start daily ops, the park will only be open from 4pm to 10pm on all weekdays (except Memorial Day, Monday May 26th). There are even shorter hours if you want to enjoy the waterpark on those days, with it only being open for 3 hours, from 4pm to 7pm on weekdays.
This schedule is set in place through to the end of July, because the first week of August the park will then shut down completely Mondays through Thursdays, with the exception of August 4th and Labor Day, Monday Sept. 1st.
This will be a dramatic shift for the operations of Frontier City in the park’s first full season under the newly merged Six Flags mega-chain. While the park has undergone some clearing up and small infrastructure improvements over the off-season, you won’t see any new rides. So what does the future hold for Frontier City?
As I previously speculated on Screamscape, Frontier City really doesn’t fit the mold of the Six Flags chain of parks. It really didn’t fit under the old management very well, and it is even more of an outsider under the merged Cedar Fair/ Six Flags management group. Making the situation even worse for Frontier City is that the park isn’t even owned by Six Flags, the park is actually owned by EPR Properties, who signed a management contract with the old Six Flags to operate the park for them, which has been a constant issue over the years as to why there was always a lack of investment of new attractions into the park.
Going back into the long history of Frontier City, it is worth noting that Frontier City was actually the birthplace of Premier Parks in the 90’s. Yes… the Premier Parks that went on to buy all of Six Flags from Time Warner. In the early 1980’s Frontier City was purchased by an real estate group who really just wanted to close the park ann develop the property, but the timing wasn’t right, so they hired a management company to operate the park for them. Eventually the management company was essentially let go when the main management was instead hired by the park directly by the owners to keep it going in 1987. The entire real estate company later transformed into Premier Parks in 1995 as it had been gathering other park properties into the fold, before eventually buying all of Six Flags in 1998.
Well… we know things didn’t go as well in that era and that version of Six Flags sold off a number of their smaller under-performing properties such as Elitch Gardens, Darien Lake, and Splashtown up for sale along with Frontier City. These parks were sold to what became PARC Management, who then sold the land under those parks to real estate development firm, CNL Properties in 2007 who would lease them back to PARC to operate.
That contact didn’t last long as issues with PARC caused that lease-back agreement to be terminated in 2011, and a new deal was signed with the reborn, Premier Parks, LLC to operate them. CNL never planned on keeping the parks long term and apparently sold all their park properties to another REIT style company named EPR Properties in late 2016, who continues to own them through today. Shortly after, in 2018, Six Flags made an offer to purchase the management contract for Frontier City from Premier Parks, while it would remain under the ownership of EPR.
What isn’t currently known is just how long the existing management contract with Six Flags to operate Frontier City is still in effect, but I can only imagine that the end may not be that far away and that the NEW Six Flags of 2025 is likely no longer interesting in running a park that they do not have any ownership in, now that they’ve doubled in size. With that in mind, I’m not entirely surprised to see Six Flags operate the park for 2025 on such a limited schedule, as those may really be the main days and times where they feel the park can be profitable while maintaining a much smaller staff to operate the park on that limited schedule. In other words, they may just be doing only what they have to do to finish out their contract with EPR.
(8/30/2024) Screamscape has been told that Frontier City’s Diamondback roller coaster (a rather rare Arrow Shuttle Coaster design) is reportedly closed for the rest of the season. From what we’re hearing, the coaster suffered from damage during a storm about a month ago.
In other news, the closed Gully Washer water slides that have been closed for the past couple of seasons are now rumored to possibly being moved to the nearby Hurricane Harbor waterpark instead. This could possibly be a move from the new Six Flags management team, who might be looking to focus all their local waterpark efforts only at Hurricane Harbor, rather than keep the small micro waterpark at Frontier City.
On the positive side, we’re also hearing rumors that management may be trying to install some sort of S&S Tower attraction on the site of the park’s former Erruption ride, where they could likely repurpose the existing pads and some infrastructure for the new attraction. Keep your eyes peeled for activity here when visiting the park.
(5/27/2024) There has been some fuss over the fact that starting in late June, Six Flags over Texas will close the entire park each week on Tuesdays for the entire Summer. This is a bit of a surprise to the local market, as this is also the original Six Flags theme park that started the chain. Naturally guests in other markers have been concerned about their own parks making similar changed to their operational schedules.
Going through the posted calendars for all the parks on the Six Flags website, I’ve only been able to find the following items of interest.
Frontier City (Oklahoma) will be closed on every Tuesday and Wednesday from now through to the end of July, with the exception of July 3rd. Unfortunately, the park also goes entirely to weekend only operations the first week of August, but that is likely due to the local school schedule.
2025 - Nothing is expected to be added at this time...
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