You gotta go under the highway to get to Silverwood. This is when any day at Silverwood REALLY begins.

Espresso and Pastry Bar. Good stuff, and they open earlier than anything else at the park. So if you get here early, to avoid a line at bag check, you can still pick up some caffeine and breakfast.

While waiting at the rope drop inside the park, Engine 7 pulled into the station.

To open Stunt Pilot, there was a flyover by a biplane.

This way to Stunt Pilot

The line wasn't outside of the building for too long- it just keeps moving.

While the ride does have 10 single seats per train, this helps when say, there's a group of 7, they can add 3 from the single rider line to have a full train.

Because of how long the train is, the sensations are quite different from front to back. Look how far down the drop row 1 is, while row 10 is still flat up top.

A stunt plane restored and hung upside down over the queue line. Brilliant bit of theming.

It's really cool to watch- and because of how the line goes right under most of the ride, you get to watch it a lot.

Very smooth, very fun ride. A lot of people got off and said "Let's get back in line" right away.

Entrance and Exit Through The Gift Shop

The opening day line in the afternoon

Panic Plunge. If you sit on this side, you get a great overview of Stunt Pilot for a moment.

It was a beautiful day for a ride opening

From over by the log flume.

Corkscrew Pizza. If you didn't get a picture of the corkscrew, did you even go to Silverwood?

From the side. The first drop is 87 degrees.

The guy in the back row looks like he might be rethinking his decision to ride.

Riders Seem To Really Enjoy This Ride. I did. Rode 4 times opening day, each time seemed better. It was really hauling late afternoon.

Hairtime!

Favorite photo of the day. This shot pretty much shows the gamut of rider reactions.

The Barn

You "Fly" through three air race rings as you ride

Not the shot I REALLY wanted. But you can see Tremors and Stunt Pilot trains in one frame here.

Tremors New Track

Old and New Side by Side. Tremors absolutely flies through the bowl area now.

Aftershock. Well, it didn't have such a good day.

Only shot I got of it in action today. It went down right before we were going to board. Didn't see it open the rest of the day. Oh well, we'll be back.

Another shot of the plane in the queue

Plane and Raven Turn

Another Train of Happy People

Someday I'll get a shot with Tremors and Stunt Pilot passing here.

No more temperature checks at the park!

Security was a breeze as always, love this new system! But park entry was another story.

This was the line to get in at about 2:00pm on Saturday. So much for the reservations and staggered arrivals.

The Membership "skip the line" and Flash Pass lines were quite long as well.

Headed up to Samurai Summit for the first time since reopening. Wonder if we'll be seeing Fright Fest this year.

Through the trees you can see what's left of Tidal Wave

Guessing by this time next week this will be mostly gone

Anybody remember when Riddlers, Tidal Wave AND Freefall were here?

Lamps are being removed as well

Sorry for the pole, but here you can see how much is being removed. Oddly enough, it doesn't look like they've done much removal of the station. Hmm.

They've kept some vegitation and removed some

From the other side you can definitely see how little is left

On the way out, a look at the newly repainted Hurricane Harbor slides. The park seemed pretty empty, anybody been to HH? How have the crowds been?

As I was leaving, they were testing the buses. And having to tell everybody not to walk in the bus route. So things ARE returning to normal.

I arrived at the parking structure at about 8:35. So it took me 13 minutes to park, go through CityWalk, Security and the entrance gates. Not too bad!

Lots of photo ops for the 2021 graduates

Having a child who graduated with a bachelors degree in 2020 I feel bad they don't have at least one 2020 photo op for those forgotten graduates

Let's check out what's going on with Super Nintendo World!

I know a lot of people feel this is going to open in 2022, but honestly, given the progress being made, I can't see it. At least not in early 2022.

Will be interesting to see how they dress up this side

Still amazed just how close it is to the buildings on the lower lot

Really do hope they do "something" to cover up the soundstages here

The entrance to the land

Halloween Horror Nights is definitely coming, although no official announcement has been made ... yet

In addition to a few normal locations of mazes, two will be in the lot next to the parking structures

A bit of a zoom here, it says HHN 2020 Wall.

A look from above. Next time we're at the park I'll walk around a bit to see the facade of this.

Back inside the park, the upper lot mazes are taking shape

The rumored Halloween 3.5

A few more quick notes from the park. Rode Mummy, super fun as always.

Rode Transformers as well, not a huge fan of this, but it's always fun.

Always forget just how long this queue is

This is new since opening weekend

Some land clearing going on in the far back corner of the lot (beyond the little Europe area). Most likely more soundstages.

Waterworld has resumed shows!

Unfortunately no Sea Plane for our show

But super fun nonetheless

Dongpo is still closed, anybody know if it's reopened at all?

No visible work going on with Toothsome

It looked like iFly was back open

Alright, that's a wrap! Thanks for reading! Cheers!

Hi Knott's! We are definitely ready to celebrate!

So many great things to see, ride and of course, taste!

Apparently there are 26 of these QR "Moments in time" around the park. Next time we'll get pics of all of them for an update!

The Haunted Shack is back as an excellent photo op!

Next time we'll do the opposite picture

Before the opening ceremony we all went to check out Bear-Y Tales. I was the only one in our group of 7 who had ridden it.

Our dear friend Scott who is moving to Washington next week took an evening away from packing to join us!

A really great kick-off ceremony was held!

The park has some amazing photo ops with previous attractions. The Kingdom of the Dinosaurs one was a particular favorite of our group.

The Sky Jump Photo Op wasn't quite ready

Coasters all decked out for the 100th!

Soap Box Racers!

The previous K is now a photo op!

Kristi with the K

Knott's is definitely picturesque, even more at night. We don't visit the park at night enough, in non-Scary Farm form. =)

Expect lots of "K" pictures this year!

Great to see Summer Nights back!

Lucy and Pigpen

WHITTLES!!!

If I still surfed I'd love a Knott's 100 surfboard. Who am I kidding, I'd love it now!

A few more night pics around the park on our way out

We see you hiding back there "K"

Thanks again to Knott's for having us out, we had a blast and can't wait to head back!

Welcome back to California's Great America

Lots of signs inside and outside the park

Reservations required ... for now

One of the most beautiful park entrances ... don't @ me

Chuck says welcome back!

I was the only rider on the first Gold Striker Train of 2021, well, first public train

Social distancing markers in the queue, they weren't needed last weekend. They probably will be this weekend.

Whew, no football

The new starbucks looks great!

Mmmm, Railblazer

CGA has one of the best collections of flat rides of any park

Looks like it could reopen any time, hopefully this weekend

LOVE what they did to Psycho Mouse! Looks great!

There's a story here ... lol

The only open coaster we didn't ride

Can't wait to come back for South Bay Shores

Hello Flyers!

The Orbit is getting an extensive rehab and should be back around July, or so we hear

New coaster confirmed! (probably just paving)

I missed just sitting in the park, enjoying a snack. Patriot photobomed me!

The buckets are in there and ready to go!

A few more random pics around the park

It was so nice to meet up with Andrew, and see some other friends around the park!

The Demon was running great, and has added some new effects! Can't wait for some night rides!

Not generally a fan of IPA's, but this was quite good

Lots of space for ... something. As long as Kings Island doesn't steal it again. =)

Even Sally was out enjoying the day!

Last ride of the day was Flight Deck. I know they've said they didn't shorten the belts, but they totally did. Still, there are "Big Boy Seats" on pretty much every row now.

We had a great day at the park!

Hope you enjoyed, it's so great doing updates like this again!

Welcome to Magic Mountain! Getting into the park was super easy, more touchless security checkpoints have been added. Wish more parks would go this route.

Headed straight to the back of the park for some solo rides on West Coast Racers, Apocalypse and Gold Rusher.

I guess I could have ridden Tatsu, but I'm honestly not a fan of it. I'll give it my yearly courtesy ride at some point.

The park is looking great!

The underground at about 10:40 or so.

Solo rides are so fun! I did get a few of these over the weekend!

Apocalypse was running well, still could use a bit of track work in a couple of spots

Let's check out what's going on with the 2022 coaster!

There is fence from the exit of Riddlers all the way around the planter towards the bbq restaurant.

Tidal wave is being removed. While this was inevitable, can't help but feel a park as big (and as hot) as SFMM needs more than 2 water rides.

The Dining area is still open, but no shade

Tidal Wave sign is gone

Hope they keep the outer wall as it looks really nice

Over on the DC Universe Side, more walls

Most of the signage for Green Lantern is still up, maybe the new coaster will keep that theme?

The facades have been removed, which is odd. Most likely they were in the way of the coaster layout.

The warehouse there stores all of the prizes for the nearby games. Wondering if it will remain. Time will tell.

Here you can see the flume for Tidal Wave being removed

Batman just reopened from a new paint job and refurbishment. It's looking and running great!

We hope you enjoyed the update, we'll be back at the park in a couple of weeks for more fun and updates.