Skip to main content
Park Queue TimesPQT

Kennywood cheat sheet

12 rides

Ride Exterminator, Phantom's Revenge and Jack Rabbit first. Leave Black Widow until after 3pm, when its queue drops to about 12 minutes.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Saturday
Busiest weekday
Sunday
Quietest month
October
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.

Ride these first

The headliners: longest queues, worst by late morning

  1. 1Exterminator ~70 min typical · up to 99 at peak · worst around 9pm70m
  2. 2Phantom's Revenge ~44 min typical · up to 66 at peak · worst around 8pm44m
  3. 3Jack Rabbit ~44 min typical · up to 53 at peak · worst around 7pm44m

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. 1Black Widow~41 min typical · about 12 min after 3pm12m
  2. 2Turtle~31 min typical · about 6 min after 3pm6m
  3. 3Thunderbolt~30 min typical · about 6 min after 3pm6m
  4. 4Old Mill~38 min typical · about 15 min after 3pm15m
  5. 5Spinvasion~24 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m

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. 1Black Widowrunning 76% of the park's open hours76%

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.

£3.99/monthor £29.99 a year, about £2.50 a month

See everything in Plus

Sign-ups are paused while billing is finished.

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.