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Adventureland
vs
Sesame Place Langhorne

On a typical day Sesame Place Langhorne queues less: about 6 minutes a ride against 29 at Adventureland, a difference of roughly 23 minutes on every queue you join.

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01 · On a typical day

What you would normally queue.

Averages across recent weeks, so one broken ride or one wet Tuesday cannot decide it. This is the comparison to plan a trip on; the live figures below are the one to act on today.

Adventureland and Sesame Place Langhorne compared on their typical recorded queue times
TypicallyAdventurelandUnited StatesSesame Place LanghorneUnited States
Average wait per ride 29 min6 min (best of the two)
Rides with recorded waits 69 (best of the two)
Longest typical queue Phoenix36 minElmo's Cloud Chaser8 min
Shortest typical queue Storm Chaser18 minVapor Trail Coaster5 min
Average ride uptime Share of opening hours a ride is runningNot recorded43%

Averaged across every ride at each park with recorded waits. A ride that never opened is left out, so a park is not flattered by counting a shut ride as a queue of zero.

02 · Right now

Both parks, this minute.

Live queue times at both parks. These fill in as soon as the page loads, and keep updating while you are here.

Adventureland and Sesame Place Langhorne compared on live queue times
Right nowAdventurelandUnited StatesSesame Place LanghorneUnited States
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These keep refreshing while this page is open. A closed park posts no waits, so its rows read as dashes rather than zeroes.

Verdict, on a typical day On a typical day Sesame Place Langhorne queues less: about 6 minutes a ride against 29 at Adventureland, a difference of roughly 23 minutes on every queue you join.

03 · Choosing

Which one is your day out.

Every line here is earned by one of the figures above - nothing is a generic sentence with a park name dropped into it.

Pick Adventureland if…

  • You will accept a longer queue - 29 minutes a ride here against 6 at Sesame Place Langhorne - for what Adventureland has that Sesame Place Langhorne does not
  • Phoenix is on your list - it is Adventureland's longest typical queue at about 36 minutes, so it is the one to do first
  • You want Adventureland's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

Pick Sesame Place Langhorne if…

  • You want shorter queues: Sesame Place Langhorne averages 6 minutes a ride against 29 at Adventureland
  • You want more to do: 9 rides here have recorded wait data against 6 at Adventureland
  • Elmo's Cloud Chaser is on your list - it is Sesame Place Langhorne's longest typical queue at about 8 minutes, so it is the one to do first
  • You want Sesame Place Langhorne's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

04 · The parks

What each one is.

Adventureland

Adventureland in Altoona, just outside Des Moines, has been open since 1974 and is Iowa's largest amusement park. Monster is the steel coaster with the beyond-vertical drop, Outlaw and Tornado are the wooden coasters, and Phoenix, Storm Chaser and Draken Falls add more variety, with a large section of family rides. In the autumn it runs Halloween haunts on select dates.

Summer weekends and the weeks around the Fourth of July are the busiest. Weekdays early and late in the season are usually much quieter. Check the live queue times before you go and use the crowd calendar to find a good day.

Adventureland live queue times

Sesame Place Langhorne

Sesame Place in Langhorne, Pennsylvania is the original Sesame Street theme park, a short drive north of Philadelphia and aimed squarely at children under ten. It mixes a dry side of family rides such as Oscar's Wacky Taxi Coaster, Vapor Trail Coaster and Elmo's Cloud Chaser with a water park of slides and splash areas, plus daily character parades and shows.

Because the audience is young and the park is small, queues build fast in the middle of the day and thin out again as families leave in the afternoon. Wait times here rarely reach big-park levels, but the crowd calendar will still show you which summer weekends to avoid, and checking live before you arrive helps you decide whether to start on the rides or the water side.

Sesame Place Langhorne live queue times

05 · Questions

Adventureland or Sesame Place Langhorne?

Which is better, Adventureland or Sesame Place Langhorne?

If you are judging on queues, Sesame Place Langhorne: it averages about 6 minutes a ride on a typical day against 29 at Adventureland, roughly 23 minutes back on every queue you join. Adventureland has 6 rides with recorded waits against 9 at Sesame Place Langhorne.

Which has shorter queues, Adventureland or Sesame Place Langhorne?

Sesame Place Langhorne, by about 23 minutes a ride. On a typical day Sesame Place Langhorne averages 6 minutes against 29 at Adventureland. Queues still move hour by hour, and a midweek day outside school holidays beats the gap at either park. See Adventureland best time to visit and Sesame Place Langhorne best time to visit to pick a quiet day.

Can I visit Adventureland and Sesame Place Langhorne in the same trip?

Yes - both parks are in United States, so a two-park trip is realistic over a long weekend. Split the days so you start at whichever opens earliest and drive to the other in the evening.

How many rides does each park have?

See the tables above for ride counts - or jump to Adventureland and Sesame Place Langhorne for the full ride lists.

Is Adventureland bigger than Sesame Place Langhorne?

By rides we track waits for, Sesame Place Langhorne is the bigger day out: 9 rides against 6. Acreage matters less than how many you can actually get on, which comes down to queues and opening hours - and on those Sesame Place Langhorne is the quicker park.

Then pick
the quiet day.

Both parks have a crowd calendar with six weeks of forecast and the best day left to go.

Sesame Place Langhorne calendar