Buy Six Flags St. Louis 2026 Season Pass, Get Access to Other Six Flags and Cedar Fair Parks

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this piece in the fall of 2025. With the 2026 acquisition of Six Flags St. Louis by Enchanted Parks, we don’t know what the future holds. However, we do know that Six Flags passes bought during the 2025 MVP sale are good for the 2026 season.

The wait is over. After weeks of speculation, Six Flags has unveiled its much-hyped offer for both new season passes and season pass renewals … the MVP (Most Valuable Pass) Sale.

And theme park travelers in St. Louis can get in on it.

What’s the deal?

Here’s the story: if you buy or renew your Six Flags or Cedar Fair season pass between July 31, 2025, and September 1, 2025, you can get access to all 40+ Six Flags / Cedar Fair parks and their associated water parks for free until the end of 2026. That’s right. You get free admission — and, not unimportantly, free parking — to the rest of the Six Flags / Cedar Fair network, through the 2026 season.

This offer includes buying or renewing season passes at Six Flags St. Louis.

If you’ve been around the Six Flags ecosystem a while, you know there was a time when this was the norm. I remember as a young adult getting Six Flags passes for Kentucky Kingdom (which was at the time owned by Six Flags) and then using it to get into Six Flags St. Louis. All of that went away after the 2024 Six Flags / Cedar Fair merger, replaced by a pricey All Parks Passport you had to pay extra for to get to go to other parks.

Now the perk has returned, and it’s not an add-on … at least, not during the sale window.

What are my ticket options?

You can get either a Gold Pass or a Prestige Pass.

For Six Flags St. Louis, Gold Passes are $55 per pass. That’s one of the lowest prices we can find of any Six Flags season pass, making it a very solid deal for STL people. Historically, the price this time of year is as low as it gets, with costs only going up later. Put another way: two day tickets to Six Flags will cost more than this Gold Pass, and day passes don’t come with free parking or access to other parks.

Here’s what you get with the Gold Pass, according to Six Flags St. Louis:

• Unlimited Visits Now through the end of 2026, plus:
  • Access to Six Flags St. Louis, Hurricane Harbor St. Louis and 40+ Six Flags Parks
  • 1 FREE Bring-A-Friend Ticket (Note: These are valid at Six Flags St. Louis only if you bought them here, and you have to use them by November 2, 2025)
  • FREE Parking
  • Includes Fright Fest and Kids Boo Fest
  • And more!

For Six Flags St. Louis, Prestige Passes are $135 per pass. Like the Gold Pass, this is as low as we can find for a Prestige Pass, and as low as it’s likely to get.

Here’s what you get with this pass, according to Six Flags St. Louis:

• Unlimited Visits Now through the end of 2026, all Gold Pass benefits, plus:
  • Access to Six Flag St. Louis, Hurricane Harbor St. Louis, and 40+ Six Flags Parks
  • 2 FREE Bring-A-Friend Tickets (Note: These are valid at Six Flags St. Louis only if you bought them here, and you have to use them by November 2, 2025)
  • FREE Preferred Parking
  • VIP Entrance
  • And more!

Note: these are the same prices as 2024, and they appear to be the same whether you’re renewing your pass or getting it for the first time.

One other thing: the all-park deal appears to also apply to Gold Memberships and Prestige Memberships. Gold and Prestige Memberships have the same perks as their respective season passes, but they charge by the month rather than one fixed price. Memberships have an initial 12-month minimum commitment plus a $20 initiation fee: Gold Memberships total about $92 over the year including the initiation fee while Prestige Memberships total around $164 with the initiation fee. Because of the higher total cost, we prefer season passes over memberships.

What else should I know about these passes?

First off, you need to activate your pass at your home park first. This is crucial. After you buy your tickets at Six Flags St. Louis, you need to get yourself down to Eureka to get those passes activated at the park.

Second, if you already have season passes, do not throw away your season passes once you renew. Hold on to them, as you’ll need them. You may also want to upload them to the Six Flags app so you have them there as well.

Third, there are some limitations to the all-park component noted in the fine print, although few of these will matter to most St. Louisans. Still, we’ll mention them. The passes are not valid for Knott’s Scary Farm, a Halloween event at Knott’s Berry Farm in Southern California. Parking at Knott’s Berry Farm is only free for Prestige Passholders, and then only General Parking. The passes are not valid for special ticket events or admission when a park is bought out for part or all of the day by a private party. Reservations are required on select dates at Shlitterbahn New Braunfels, a park in Texas, and priority is given to home park passholders and resort guests.

Another limitation: according to the Six Flags FAQ, other season pass add-ons are not interchangeable between Six Flags legacy parks and Cedar Fair legacy parks. That includes season dining passes, drink bottles, Flash Pass / Fast Lane, speedy parking, and photo plans. For example, your Six Flags St. Louis season pass add-ons would be valid at Six Flags Great America in Chicago or Six Flags Over Georgia in Atlanta, but not at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City or King’s Island in Cincinnati.

Will passes purchased after the deadline still have the all-park passport?

No idea. Maybe, maybe not.

Will prices ever be lower?

We’ve bought season passes over the years — and kept tabs on season pass offers — and the trend has always been that big sale before Labor Day is the cheapest passes will get. This is that sale.

What parks could a St. Louisan go to?

Technically, whatever you want. If you’re thinking of drive time, though, here are, outside of Six Flags St. Louis itself, the five nearest Six Flags / Cedar Fair parks to STL by distance:

• Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun — Kansas City area (Google Maps link) — about 250 miles / 4 hours
• Six Flags Great America and Hurricane Harbor — Chicago area (Google Maps link) — about 330 miles / 5 hours
• King’s Island and Soak City — Cincinnati area (Google Maps link) — about 370 miles / 5 1/2 hours
• Frontier City and Hurricane Harbor — Oklahoma City area (Google Maps link) — about 480 miles / 7 hours
• Cedar Point and Cedar Point Shores — Sandusky, Ohio area (Google Maps link) — about 530 miles / 8 hours

Valleyfair and Soak City in the Minneapolis area (Google Maps link) and Six Flags Over Georgia and Six Flags White Water in the Atlanta, Georgia area (Google Maps link) are both about 550 miles / 8 1/2 hours away.

Honorable mention to Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Rockford (Google Maps link), a small water park-only property that’s about 300 miles / 4 hours and 15 minutes away.

Our writers have, either individually or together, been to a few of these parks, including Six Flags Great America a few times, King’s Island twice, Cedar Point once, and Six Flags Over Georgia once. All three parks are fun to see, and with their own unique style. All have great coasters, with Cedar Point being famous (or infamous) for some seriously intense coasters. (One of us is still getting over their ride on Millennium Force, and they don’t even want to think about the new Siren’s Curse.) King’s island has some great coasters, too, and we have fond memories of The Beast in particular.

Should I get these tickets?

Up to you. If you have any plans to go to any other cities with Six Flags or Cedar Fair parks, this offer gives you a lot to think about. Even if you don’t, if you plan on going to Six Flags St. Louis more than one time between now and the end of 2026, this is a strong option.

As for us? We’re thinking hard about it. If you’re reading this, you probably are, too.

You have a little time to think it through. The offer goes until September 1, 2025.