Six Flags Great Adventure: Drive Thru Holiday in the Park

Hello everyone! Yesterday Six Flags Great Adventure hit us all with some exciting news. The Holiday in the Park festivities are going to be expanded to include the whole week! The park itself will be open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for it's usual Holiday in the Park festivities. This means that you can still catch some late season rides on Nitro, Batman: The Ride, Wonder Woman: Lasso of Truth, Superman: Ultimate Flight, among others. As is always the case, Bizarro, El' Toro, and Kingda Ka are not open during Holiday in the Park (mostly for operating reasons from what I understand). So with the rides open during the weekend, you may be wondering what is new and exciting for the week. Allow me to take you back to the year 2003. Six Flags Great Adventure was host to a special holiday event called Winter Lights. This was a drive thru event where guests would drive through the parking lots where all kinds of holiday lights were displayed. While I have no pictures of it I can still remember going to this drive-thru experience. The local Jackson area even got involved if I recall correctly with the nearby Jackson Outlets and Wawa getting their own displays. There were even displays for the dolphins and sea lions that lived in the park at the time. It was a really neat experience that I always wished came back until Six Flags started the Holiday in the Park event. Winter Lights only ran for two seasons (2002-2003 and 2003-2004), but it was certainly impressive enough to still be lodged in my head from before I was even in highschool. Why am I brining up Winter Lights you may ask? Because Six Flags's big announcement is the return of a drive thru holiday light experience. Starting on November 30th, 2020 Six Flags will introduce a drive thru version of Holiday in the Park. Ever adapting to the current state of the pandemic, Six Flags in introducing a new for families to experience Holiday in the Park. Guests will (I think for the first time?) be able to drive their vehicles through the park and experience over a million holiday lights just as you would on foot if you visited during the weekend when the park is open. Six Flags posted this image on social media of what the drive will look like...

    It appears that vehicles will enter through the catering area and emerge into the park itself by Justice League: Battle for Metropolis. I do want to point out that Cyborg Cyber Spin is not on this map. Rumors have been flying about it's imminent removal, but that's for another time... From there drivers will drive over the Metropolis Bridge into the Movietown area (whose Holiday name is blurry on this for some reason) past Batman: The Ride and into the North Pole section which appears to encompass Granny's, one of the Skyway stations, and Santa's Workshop. Cars will then proceed through the path by Big Wheel and into the Main Street Christmas area. Surprisingly the cars will almost get to the regular entrance gate before snaking through the Marketplace (by Houdini's Great Escape and the Carosuel) and crossing the path along the Skyway that leads to Skull Mountain aka Poinsettia Peak. The path continues past Harley Quinn's Crazy Train and The Joker (Holly Jolly Christmas Area. Cars will then travel the lakefront (Joy to the World area) before heading down Gingerbread Junction (the Boardwalk area) and the Deck the Halls area (by the Twister, Superman: Ultimate Flight, and Green Lantern) before exiting to the right of Superman: Ultimate Flight.

    I for one am super happy to see Six Flags doing this. Given the pandemic, this is a great way to bring money into the park, but to have a way for people who are more worried about the pandemic to enioy Holiday in the Park. I know so many people who will not go into the park still due to concerns about COVID-19, but at work today this drive thru experience was a pretty hot topic. So whether you feel comfortable in going to the park for Holiday in the Park on the weekend or if not, there is at least a way for you to now enjoy the many, many lights that are sure to brighten your holiday spirit. For more information on this drive thru experience, please visit sixflags.com or check out Six Flags Great Adventure on the various social media outlets. 

    That's all I've got for today. Something exciting coming out of Six Flags at a time where nobody really knows much of anything that is going on in the day to day world. As always, thank you for reading and stay tuned for the next blog coming real soon!