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Canadas Wonderland cheat sheet

worked out from 31 days of our own wait data20 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride AlpenFury, Leviathan and Boo Blasters on Boo Hill first. Leave Psyclone until after 3pm, when its queue drops to about 10 minutes. The park's queues peak around 17:00 at 37 minutes and are lowest around 10:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Friday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
July
Busiest month
August

Each ride's own quietest and busiest day, tallied and weighted by how long its queue runs. For a dated answer use the crowd calendar, which scores every day of the year.

The shape of the day

Average queue across the park, hour by hour

  1. 10:0021mquietest
  2. 11:0024m
  3. 12:0029m
  4. 13:0032m
  5. 14:0031m
  6. 15:0034m
  7. 16:0036m
  8. 17:0037mpeak
  9. 18:0034m
  10. 19:0033m
  11. 20:0031m
  12. 21:0031m

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 17:00 and fall back through the afternoon; the last hour or two is the quietest the headliners get all day.

Ride these first

The headliners: longest queues, worst by late morning

  1. 1AlpenFury ~97 min typical · up to 133 at peak · worst around 4pm97m
  2. 2Leviathan ~47 min typical · up to 65 at peak · worst around 6pm47m
  3. 3Boo Blasters on Boo Hill ~44 min typical · up to 53 at peak · worst around 9pm44m

Straight to these from the gate, in this order. Every minute before the park fills is worth three later.

Leave these until later

Rides whose queues collapse late in the day

  1. 1Psyclone~22 min typical · about 10 min after 3pm10m

Save them for the last two hours, when the coach parties have gone and the queue is a fraction of the afternoon's.

Fill the gaps with

Walk-ons at any hour, and the single-rider lines

Usually under 10 minutesLumberjack7mTundra Twister9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Timberwolf Fallsrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2WindSeekerrunning 14% of the park's open hours14%
  3. 3Sledge Hammerrunning 65% of the park's open hours65%
  4. 4Ghoster Coasterrunning 69% of the park's open hours69%
  5. 5Boo Blasters on Boo Hillrunning 71% of the park's open hours71%

If one of these is the reason you came, ride it the first time you see it running rather than saving it. The full picture is on the reliability page.

On the day

Your day-of sheet

The same park, for one date: the forecast, the hours, and your ride order

Plus members get this sheet for a date: the crowd forecast for the day, its published hours, a ride order worked out against that day's wait curve, and a printable version to take in.

PlusThe day-of sheet is part of Plus

Here, that is a ride order for your date, the forecast and the hours, printable.

  • Your rides, in order

    Sequenced against the wait curve, so the headliners land in their quiet windows.

  • quiet till 111pm · 66m

    Your date, hour by hour

    How the wait climbs on the day you picked, and the window it stays low.

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Everything above is each ride's own recorded queue over recent weeks, sampled every few minutes through the park's opening hours - not an opinion. A ride with too little history is left out.