Six Flags Magic Mountain, Amusement park in Santa Clarita, United States.
Six Flags Magic Mountain is an amusement park in Valencia near Santa Clarita in California with twenty roller coasters and other rides across roughly 209 acres (85 hectares). The complex divides into eleven themed areas connected by paths and plazas.
The complex opened in 1971 as a joint project between Sea World Inc and the Newhall Land and Farming Company. Six Flags took over the park in 1979 and expanded it over the decades into a center for roller coasters.
The park takes its name from the nearby Magic Mountain peak east of the Santa Clarita Valley. Trolls King Blop, Bleep, Bloop and a Wizard served as mascots from 1972 until 1985, when Looney Tunes characters replaced them and the children's area became Bugs Bunny World. The Showcase Theater, later the Golden Bear Theater, hosted Barbra Streisand as its first headline performer.
The park sits north of Los Angeles and is accessible via Interstate 5, with parking lots directly at the entrance. Most rides have height and weight restrictions posted at the queue lines.
Colossus, the wooden coaster in the photograph, opened in 1978 and was then the fastest and largest dual-tracked wooden coaster in the world. After its first season it was closed and extensively rebuilt, reopening as a smoother ride. In 1991 the camel hump before the third turn was replaced by a block brake.
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