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Dorney Park cheat sheet

worked out from 30 days of our own wait data13 rides

Arrive for 12:00 and ride Wild Mouse, Thunder Canyon and Thunder Creek Mountain first. Leave Iron Menace until after 3pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes. The park's queues peak around 16:00 at 18 minutes and are lowest around 12:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Friday
Busiest weekday
Sunday
Quietest month
November
Busiest month
September

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. 12:0012mquietest
  2. 13:0016m
  3. 14:0016m
  4. 15:0017m
  5. 16:0018mpeak
  6. 17:0018m
  7. 18:0017m
  8. 19:0018m
  9. 20:0018m

Arrive for 12:00. Queues climb to their peak around 16:00 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. 1Wild Mouse ~39 min typical · up to 46 at peak · worst around 0am39m
  2. 2Thunder Canyon ~33 min typical · up to 43 at peak · worst around 7pm33m
  3. 3Thunder Creek Mountain ~27 min typical · up to 36 at peak · worst around 7pm27m

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. 1Iron Menace~27 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  2. 2Talon~21 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  3. 3Hydra~19 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  4. 4Steel Force~13 min typical · about 3 min after 3pm3m
  5. 5Dominator~12 min typical · about 7 min after 4pm7m

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

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Thunder Canyonrunning 78% of the park's open hours78%
  2. 2Thunder Creek Mountainrunning 78% of the park's open hours78%
  3. 3White Water Landingrunning 79% of the park's open hours79%

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.