A fair experience in every sense of the word. I'd consider myself a theme park enthusiast and love to visit new parks. I'd lived in Colorado for a year and finally got to visit.

First of all, kudos to Denver for buying the park back from Six Flags when they were downsizing in 2006. As a native Houstonian, I would have LOVED for Houston to have done the same for Astroworld instead of allowing it to permanently close. The fact that Denver has a park to visit is great.

The park experience... It felt like 25% of the rides were closed or constantly breaking down. There were like 5 or 6 flat rides, the two water rides and a coaster that was closed for the whole day. According to several park goers, this is common. The coaster, they tell me, is almost never functional. The flat rides, I'm not sure if they were broken, or just didn't have the staff to operate them. Fortunately, the three big coasters were operational, though they did have a few breakdowns during the day, which caused longer queues. Other rides were not filling to capacity, causing longer queues as well.

There were no single rider lines. I'm not suggesting single riders should get to skip the line, but if there's an open seat in a two-seat cart and I'm not far back in line, that seat can be filled easily, allowing the line to move quicker. When asked, I was told they can't let me skip the line (there were only two groups of two in front of me). This was disappointing. I feel if they let single riders fill the gaps, they can move the line faster.

Food - wife and I had burger and fries and buffalo chicken and fries. The fries were lukewarm at best and felt like they had been sitting out for a while. They forgot the buffalo sauce on the chicken. The clerk working the counter could barely communicate and after having to repeat our order 3-4 times, still got it wrong. I don't expect a lot from amusement park food, but this was one of the worst experiences I've ever had.

Overall experience - I went late in the season, in late September. There was a light crowd and the lines weren't too bad. I got to ride all the rides I wanted, minus the flat rides and the one coaster. The mind eraser coaster and storm chaser coasters were great, and very similar to Astroworld's Serial Triller and Texas Cyclone, respectively, and were a lot of fun. The boomerang coaster was a lot of fun too, but had poor throughput due to only having one train, and breakdowns. Because of this, I only rode it once. I know if more of the rides were operational, the queues for all rides would have been less. Being later in the season, the locals told me that this is common and most rides are online at the start of a new season. Despite the broken rides, they still charged full price, which is the same as a six flags park that is better maintained, and parking was THIRTY DOLLARS. Given so many rides were inoperative, there should have been a discount.

Despite the negatives, wife and I still had a great time. I would still visit again because I had fun on the rides I did get to ride. Hopefully next time, more rides would be online.