Best Rides at Kings Island
The headline rides, ranked by typical wait time
These are the most popular rides at Kings Island, ordered by how long people typically queue for them. A longer typical wait is a good proxy for the must-do, headline attractions. Tap any ride for its live wait time, busiest hours and reliability.
Top rides by typical wait
24 rides ranked · longest typical queue first
- 1Flight Of Fear~46 min typical wait up to 58 min at peak
- 2The Beast~30 min typical wait up to 42 min at peak
- 3Diamondback~29 min typical wait up to 43 min at peak
- 4Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare~26 min typical wait up to 36 min at peak
- 5Kings Mills Antique Autos~23 min typical wait up to 27 min at peak
- 6Invertigo~22 min typical wait up to 34 min at peak
- 7Mystic Timbers~22 min typical wait up to 31 min at peak
- 8Charlie Brown's Rushing River Log Ride~21 min typical wait up to 32 min at peak
- 9White Water Canyon~21 min typical wait up to 33 min at peak
- 10Surf Dog~19 min typical wait up to 29 min at peak
- 11Orion~19 min typical wait up to 27 min at peak
- 12Queen City Stunt Coaster~18 min typical wait up to 24 min at peak
- 13Woodstock's Air Rail~18 min typical wait up to 33 min at peak
- 14Banshee~18 min typical wait up to 25 min at peak
- 15The Bat~17 min typical wait up to 31 min at peak
- 16Woodstock Express~13 min typical wait up to 22 min at peak
- 17Franklin's Flyers~13 min typical wait up to 19 min at peak
- 18Drop Tower~12 min typical wait up to 21 min at peak
- 19Adventure Express~11 min typical wait up to 16 min at peak
- 20Delirium~11 min typical wait up to 19 min at peak
- 21Sol Spin~11 min typical wait up to 16 min at peak
- 22Snoopy's Soap Box Racers~11 min typical wait up to 16 min at peak
- 23Racer Blue~8 min typical wait up to 15 min at peak
- 24Racer Red~8 min typical wait up to 11 min at peak
Ranking is by each ride's typical wait time, which we use as a popularity proxy - the rides people queue longest for tend to be the headline attractions. It isn't an editorial "best" score.