Frontier City

Frontier City
Statistics
Location	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Opened	1958
Owner	EPR Properties
Website	http://www.sixflags.com/frontiercity/

Frontier City is a western-themed amusement park in Oklahoma City. It is owned by CNL Lifestyle Propreties and operated by Premier Parks, LLC. The park is the subject of the song "Frontier City" by the Nashville band Kings of Leon, as drummer Nathan Followill once worked there. Currently Frontier City is the only theme park in Oklahoma after the 2006 closing of Bell's Amusement Park that was located in Tulsa OKlahoma.

History

Frontier City was opened in 1958 as a Western "town" theme park. It opened up at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, but moved to its current location a few years later to become a "boom town," since it sprung-up quickly. The park added spinning rides, several roller coasters and a log flume ride starting in the 1960s and 1970s. Rather than a traditional ribbon cutting, Frontier City was scheduled to have an old fashioned six shooter aimed at a piece of rope stretched across the stockade entrance. The rope stretched across main street is still used today for the opening of the park.

On January 27, 2006, Six Flags put Frontier City and White Water Bay, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Elitch Gardens, Darien Lake, a couple of waterparks, and Wild Waves/Enchanted Village for sale. At the same time, Six Flags also announced its plan to close corporate offices in Oklahoma City and move to New York City. Six Flags CEO Mark Shapiro had said he expected the parks to continue operation after the sale. But rumors surfaced that some of them could close.

Frontier City was originally owned and operated by Premier Parks. It was the company's first and flagship park. Premier Parks' corporate offices were located at the southeast corner of the Frontier City property until 2006 when the company's offices were moved to New York. Premier Parks purchased Six Flags Inc. 1998. It was thought that Frontier City, Wild Waves/Enchanted Village, and Great Escape would eventually be re-branded as Six Flags parks, but they never were. The other two parks sold Six Flags season passes good at all Six Flags parks except for Frontier City and White Water Bay. The Frontier City passes were only good there and not at other Six Flags parks. But in some years, Six Flags passes were also available for purchase at a higher price. Six Flags corporate offices remained in Oklahoma City, but left in 2006, despite Oklahoma City's now booming economy.

On January 11, 2007, Six Flags opted to keep Magic Mountain, but then announced that it would sell Frontier City and White Water Bay, along with Elitch Gardens, Darien Lake, Splashtown (near Houston), and Wild Waves/Enchanted Village to PARC 7F-Operations. As a part of the deal, the Six Flags prefix was removed from the names of Elitch Gardens and Darien Lake, Frontier City and White Water Bay were never branded as Six Flags parks.

Since the management was changed from Six Flags to PARC Management, Frontier City has been granted the largest capital investment that the park has seen in its 50 years. The new ownership allowed for the addition of the Steel Lasso, as well as a few minor changes within the park.

On November 24, 2010, CNL announced that it had reached an agreement to terminate PARC's lease of Elitch Gardens and up to 17 other locations. The move came after, according to their 2010 SEC filings, PARC defaulted on their lease obligations on the properties. Five of the original six parks originally purchased from Six Flags are also involved in the lease termination.

CNL Lifestyle Properties, Inc., owners of Frontier City; Frontier City theme park and White Water Bay water park again will be getting the Six Flags management touch when former Six Flags executives Kieran Burke and Gary Story begin managing the properties as Premier Parks, LLC.

Location

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Present roller coasters

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Status
Steel Lasso	Vekoma	Suspended Family Coaster (Steel)	July 17, 2008	Open
The Wildcat	National Amusement Device Company	Wooden Coaster	1991	Open
The Silver Bullet	Schwarzkopf	Looping Star (Steel)	1986	Open
The Diamond Back	Arrow Dynamics	Shuttle Loop (Steel)	1994	Open
Wild Kitty	Allen Herschell Company	Children's Coaster	2013	Open

Present rides

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Status
Quick Draw	Sally Corporation	Dark Ride	2007	Open
Tornado	Sellner	Tilt-a-Whirl		Open
Sidewinder	Eli	Scrambler		Open
Casino	Chance	Trabant		Open
The Prairie Schooner	Intamin	Bounty (swinging pirate ship)		Open
Dodge 'Ems		Bumper Cars		Open
Grand Centennial Ferris Wheel		Ferris Wheel		Open
Grand Carousel		Carousel		Open
Ol' 89er Express		Train Ride		Open
Tin Lizzy's				Open
Winged Warrior	Larson	Flying Scooters	2014	Open
Tumbleweed (formerly known as "Terrible Twister")	Chance	Rotor		Standing But Not Operating

Children's rides and attractions

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Status
Flying Dragons				Open
Indian Canoes		Children's Lazy River		Open
Paul Bunyan's Timbertown				Open
Petting Zoo				Open
Rio Grande		Children's Train		Open
Tina's Tea Party				Open
Tom Toms		Children's Swings		Open

Extra-fee rides

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Status	Price
Geronimo Sky Coaster	Skycoaster	Free-Falling Attraction		Open
Thunder Road Raceway		Go-Karts		Open

Water rides

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Status
Mystery River Log Flume (formerly known as "The Ozarka Splash")		Log Flume		Open
Renegade Rapids		Raft-Style		Open
Wild West Water Works			2012	Open

Past roller coasters

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Closed	Status
Excaliber	Arrow Dynamics	Runaway Mine Train		2005	Scrapped
The Wild Kitty	Allen Hershcell Company	Children's Coaster	1991	2012

Past rides

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Closed	Status
Treasure Mountain		Indoor Dark Ride		2007	Modified to become "Quick Draw"
Tomahawk	Zamperla	Hawk 48		2006
Swinging Six Guns				2008
Bumper Boats		Kiddie Ride		2008
Hangman	Chance	Tower/Drop Ride		2014

External links

• Frontier City official website
• Frontier City at Logopedia
• Frontier City at the Roller Coaster DataBase
• Frontier City at the Six Flags Wiki
• Frontier City at Wikipedia