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Kings Island cheat sheet

worked out from 13 days of our own wait data24 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Flight of Fear, The Beast and Charlie Brown's Rushing River Log Ride first. Leave Banshee until after 10pm, when its queue drops to about 13 minutes. The park's queues peak around 14:00 at 35 minutes and are lowest around 21:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Friday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
November
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.

The shape of the day

Average queue across the park, hour by hour

  1. 10:0023m
  2. 11:0027m
  3. 12:0030m
  4. 13:0031m
  5. 14:0035mpeak
  6. 15:0034m
  7. 16:0035m
  8. 17:0028m
  9. 18:0025m
  10. 19:0023m
  11. 20:0025m
  12. 21:0022mquietest

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 14:00 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. 1Flight of Fear ~57 min typical · up to 90 at peak · worst around 8pm57m
  2. 2The Beast ~56 min typical · up to 66 at peak · worst around 8pm56m
  3. 3Charlie Brown's Rushing River Log Ride ~55 min typical55m

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. 1Banshee~39 min typical · about 13 min after 10pm13m
  2. 2White Water Canyon~38 min typical · about 19 min after 10pm19m
  3. 3Woodstock Express~35 min typical · about 18 min after 11pm18m
  4. 4Woodstock's Air Rail~29 min typical · about 13 min after 7pm13m
  5. 5Snoopy's Soap Box Racers~25 min typical · about 15 min after 6pm15m

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. 1Charlie Brown's Rushing River Log Riderunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2White Water Canyonrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  3. 3Drop Towerrunning 1% of the park's open hours1%
  4. 4Surf Dogrunning 32% of the park's open hours32%
  5. 5Franklin's Flyersrunning 36% of the park's open hours36%

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.