No, you can't buy a ticket at the gate. If you already have a pass for the season you can make a reservation thought the app. That would be a passholder reservation. If you have a pre-purchased single day ticket you can make a reservation with that ticket in the app. That would be a single day reservation. You can also buy a ticket online, and then make a single day reservation.
Passholders making a reservation or ticket holder making a reservation. There really isn't a difference but whether or not which one you have. You cannot buy tickets at the gate. You can buy them online and make a ticket reservation online for a time for you to go to the front gate to be checked in.
Today the park was not that busy. But lines are still long because they are only letting at most 50% on each car. Some rides you have to get a pass to get on then you get in line during your time. Those lines end up being 45mins to a hour. Only about 30% of food places and drink stations are open. They had most if fair rides closed. 5 of the rollercoasters were also closed.
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