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Disneyland Park cheat sheet

34 rides

Ride Space Mountain, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance and Haunted Mansion Holiday first. Leave Tiana's Bayou Adventure until after 3pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Wednesday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
August
Busiest month
April

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.

Ride these first

The headliners: longest queues, worst by late morning

  1. 1Space Mountain ~36 min typical · up to 41 at peak · worst around 11pm36m
  2. 2Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance ~35 min typical · up to 38 at peak · worst around 6pm35m
  3. 3Haunted Mansion Holiday ~34 min typical · up to 39 at peak · worst around 11pm34m

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. 1Tiana's Bayou Adventure~28 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  2. 2Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin~27 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  3. 3Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway~20 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  4. 4Indiana Jones™ Adventure~31 min typical · about 17 min after 3pm17m
  5. 5Matterhorn Bobsleds~21 min typical · about 7 min after 3pm7m

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 minutesDavy Crockett's Explorer Canoes5mMad Tea Party6mKing Arthur Carrousel6mDisneyland Railroad6mPinocchio's Daring Journey7mCasey Jr. Circus Train7m"it's a small world"8mThe Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Sailing Ship Columbiarunning 3% of the park's open hours3%
  2. 2Mark Twain Riverboatrunning 50% of the park's open hours50%
  3. 3Indiana Jones™ Adventurerunning 72% of the park's open hours72%
  4. 4Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spinrunning 74% of the park's open hours74%
  5. 5Jungle Cruiserunning 80% of the park's open hours80%

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.