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Lake Compounce
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Six Flags Great Adventure

On a typical day Lake Compounce queues less: about 16 minutes a ride against 44 at Six Flags Great Adventure, a difference of roughly 28 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.

Lake Compounce and Six Flags Great Adventure compared on their typical recorded queue times
TypicallyLake CompounceUnited StatesSix Flags Great AdventureUnited States
Average wait per ride 16 min (best of the two)44 min
Rides with recorded waits 25 (best of the two)19
Longest typical queue Boulder Dash37 minTHE FLASH™: Vertical Velocity69 min
Shortest typical queue Rainbow Riders5 minBuccaneer18 min
Average ride uptime Share of opening hours a ride is running67%76% (best of the two)

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.

Lake Compounce and Six Flags Great Adventure compared on live queue times
Right nowLake CompounceUnited StatesSix Flags Great AdventureUnited 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 Lake Compounce queues less: about 16 minutes a ride against 44 at Six Flags Great Adventure, a difference of roughly 28 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 Lake Compounce if…

  • You want shorter queues: Lake Compounce averages 16 minutes a ride against 44 at Six Flags Great Adventure
  • You want more to do: 25 rides here have recorded wait data against 19 at Six Flags Great Adventure
  • Boulder Dash is on your list - it is Lake Compounce's longest typical queue at about 37 minutes, so it is the one to do first
  • You want Lake Compounce's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

Pick Six Flags Great Adventure if…

  • You will accept a longer queue - 44 minutes a ride here against 16 at Lake Compounce - for what Six Flags Great Adventure has that Lake Compounce does not
  • You would rather not find rides shut: Six Flags Great Adventure's rides run 76% of opening hours against 67% at Lake Compounce
  • THE FLASH™: Vertical Velocity is on your list - it is Six Flags Great Adventure's longest typical queue at about 69 minutes, so it is the one to do first
  • You want Six Flags Great Adventure's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

04 · The parks

What each one is.

Lake Compounce

Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut, opened in 1846 and is the oldest continuously operating amusement park in North America. Boulder Dash is the standout, a wooden coaster that runs along the side of the mountain, alongside the 1927 Wildcat, the triple-launch Phobia Phear and Thunder N Lightning. The park also has the Crocodile Cove water park, and in the autumn it adds Halloween haunts on select dates.

Summer weekends and the July holiday week are the busiest. Weekdays in June and the autumn weekends before the haunts open are quieter. Check the live queue times before you go and use the crowd calendar to choose a day.

Lake Compounce live queue times

Six Flags Great Adventure

Six Flags Great Adventure sits in Jackson, New Jersey, and has long been one of Six Flags' flagship coaster parks. The line-up is exceptional: El Toro (one of the world's top-rated wooden coasters), Nitro, Jersey Devil Coaster, Superman: Ultimate Flight, Batman: The Ride, Skull Mountain, and Green Lantern stand-up. Kingda Ka was the park's signature ride until its closure; a Safari Off Road Adventure drive-through exhibit also operates on the property.

NJ and NYC school holidays, Fright Fest and US summer weekends drive huge crowds. Weekdays in May, September and October are dramatically calmer. Check live queue times for El Toro and Nitro on arrival - they build up fast - and use our crowd calendar to pick a midweek visit for shorter waits across the whole coaster line-up.

Six Flags Great Adventure live queue times

05 · Questions

Lake Compounce or Six Flags Great Adventure?

Which is better, Lake Compounce or Six Flags Great Adventure?

If you are judging on queues, Lake Compounce: it averages about 16 minutes a ride on a typical day against 44 at Six Flags Great Adventure, roughly 28 minutes back on every queue you join. Lake Compounce has 25 rides with recorded waits against 19 at Six Flags Great Adventure. Six Flags Great Adventure also runs its rides more reliably - 76% of opening hours against 67%.

Which has shorter queues, Lake Compounce or Six Flags Great Adventure?

Lake Compounce, by about 28 minutes a ride. On a typical day Lake Compounce averages 16 minutes against 44 at Six Flags Great Adventure. Queues still move hour by hour, and a midweek day outside school holidays beats the gap at either park. See Lake Compounce best time to visit and Six Flags Great Adventure best time to visit to pick a quiet day.

Can I visit Lake Compounce and Six Flags Great Adventure 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 Lake Compounce and Six Flags Great Adventure for the full ride lists.

Is Lake Compounce bigger than Six Flags Great Adventure?

By rides we track waits for, Lake Compounce is the bigger day out: 25 rides against 19. Acreage matters less than how many you can actually get on, which comes down to queues and opening hours - and on those Lake Compounce 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.

Six Flags Great Adventure calendar