SIX FLAGS DARIEN LAKE
Buffalo, New York (Abbreviation: DL)
Known as Six Flags Darien Lake (1999 to 2006)
and as just Darien Lake (2007 to 2018)
Owned by EPR Properties
Managed by Six Flags Theme Parks
Park News - (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.
Six Flags Darien Lake also has a limited schedule, opening only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays now through to the week of June 23rd, when the park will be closed Monday and Tuesday. The park will be open daily for the first week of July only and then be closed every Tuesday in July and August, except for July 30th for some reason.
2025 - Mind Eraser to Return and Maybe More - (5/17/2024) The Mine Eraser at Six Flags Darien Lake has been confirmed by the park to be closed for the 2024 season. According to a sign they put u p, the coaster is closed for “extensive renovations” and will reopen in 2025 with two new trains, “a track profile make-over”, and refreshed paint to offer a “smoother and more comfortable” experience.
Mind Eraser has been closed the last couple of seasons and it is with great interest that people have also noted that it happens to be located next to the park’s closed Thunder Rapids ride in a far off corner of the park that they’ve been essentially able to close off in recent years. And yet… this is starting to sound slightly familiar too…
If you’ve followed the history of Six Flags America at all, you will recall how that park closed off a whole section of their park, that also included their Rapids ride and Mind Eraser for a few years, only to announce plans to reopen it all in 2024, refurbished as SteamTown. The upgrade at Six Flags America will see their former Mind Eraser also completely refurbished as Professor Screamore’s SkyWinder and the rapids upgraded with animatronic dinosaurs to become the QuantumCanyon Rapids.
Mix in some other refurbished rides, along with a new ride or two, and it isn’t a far stretch of the imagination to think that just maybe SF Darien Lake could possibly be preparing to create their own version of SteamTown in 2025. Stay tuned!
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