While we were in Southern California, we spent a day at Six Flags Magic Mountain Amusement Park in Santa Clarita. While it is a norm now, this was the first park I had to pass through a metal detector to get into, but once we did it had much the feel of any other amusement park.
While it had a great collection of roller coasters in my opinion it comes up short of Cedar Point, mostly I think because of ‘the Points’ unique location along Lake Erie, and the more efficient approach toward crowd management they have.
Regardless, it was a nice day at Magic Mountain.