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Sesame Place Langhorne
vs
Six Flags Darien Lake

On a typical day Sesame Place Langhorne queues less: about 7 minutes a ride against 15 at Six Flags Darien Lake, a difference of roughly 8 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.

Sesame Place Langhorne and Six Flags Darien Lake compared on their typical recorded queue times
TypicallySesame Place LanghorneUnited StatesSix Flags Darien LakeUnited States
Average wait per ride 7 min (best of the two)15 min
Rides with recorded waits 9 (best of the two)8
Longest typical queue Elmo's Cloud Chaser9 minPredator24 min
Shortest typical queue Vapor Trail Coaster6 minBoomerang5 min
Average ride uptime Share of opening hours a ride is running48%70% (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.

Sesame Place Langhorne and Six Flags Darien Lake compared on live queue times
Right nowSesame Place LanghorneUnited StatesSix Flags Darien LakeUnited 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 7 minutes a ride against 15 at Six Flags Darien Lake, a difference of roughly 8 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 Sesame Place Langhorne if…

  • You want shorter queues: Sesame Place Langhorne averages 7 minutes a ride against 15 at Six Flags Darien Lake
  • You want more to do: 9 rides here have recorded wait data against 8 at Six Flags Darien Lake
  • Elmo's Cloud Chaser is on your list - it is Sesame Place Langhorne's longest typical queue at about 9 minutes, so it is the one to do first
  • You want Sesame Place Langhorne's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

Pick Six Flags Darien Lake if…

  • You will accept a longer queue - 15 minutes a ride here against 7 at Sesame Place Langhorne - for what Six Flags Darien Lake has that Sesame Place Langhorne does not
  • You would rather not find rides shut: Six Flags Darien Lake's rides run 70% of opening hours against 48% at Sesame Place Langhorne
  • Predator is on your list - it is Six Flags Darien Lake's longest typical queue at about 24 minutes, so it is the one to do first
  • You want Six Flags Darien Lake's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

04 · The parks

What each one is.

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

Six Flags Darien Lake

Six Flags Darien Lake sits in Darien Center, New York, between Buffalo and Rochester. The coaster line-up includes Ride of Steel (a 208-foot hyper coaster from Intamin), Tantrum (a 98-foot Eurofighter), Motocoaster launched coaster, Predator wooden coaster, and the classic Viper stand-up. A Hurricane Harbor water park and a camping resort operate on the same property.

Western New York school holidays, US summer weekends and the Fright Fest event drive Darien Lake's peak crowds. Weekdays in May, September and early October stay dramatically quieter. Check live wait times for Ride of Steel and Tantrum on arrival, and use our crowd calendar to pick a midweek visit - many rides run near walk-on levels on quieter mornings.

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05 · Questions

Sesame Place Langhorne or Six Flags Darien Lake?

Which is better, Sesame Place Langhorne or Six Flags Darien Lake?

If you are judging on queues, Sesame Place Langhorne: it averages about 7 minutes a ride on a typical day against 15 at Six Flags Darien Lake, roughly 8 minutes back on every queue you join. Sesame Place Langhorne has 9 rides with recorded waits against 8 at Six Flags Darien Lake. Six Flags Darien Lake also runs its rides more reliably - 70% of opening hours against 48%.

Which has shorter queues, Sesame Place Langhorne or Six Flags Darien Lake?

Sesame Place Langhorne, by about 8 minutes a ride. On a typical day Sesame Place Langhorne averages 7 minutes against 15 at Six Flags Darien Lake. Queues still move hour by hour, and a midweek day outside school holidays beats the gap at either park. See Sesame Place Langhorne best time to visit and Six Flags Darien Lake best time to visit to pick a quiet day.

Can I visit Sesame Place Langhorne and Six Flags Darien Lake 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 Sesame Place Langhorne and Six Flags Darien Lake for the full ride lists.

Is Sesame Place Langhorne bigger than Six Flags Darien Lake?

By rides we track waits for, Sesame Place Langhorne is the bigger day out: 9 rides against 8. 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.

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