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Knoebels cheat sheet

worked out from 20 days of our own wait data52 rides

Arrive for 12:00 and ride Flying Turns, Haunted Antique Cars and Black Diamond first. Leave Phoenix until after 5pm, when its queue drops to about 7 minutes. The park's queues peak around 15:00 at 9 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
Saturday
Quietest month
June
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. 12:006mquietest
  2. 13:007m
  3. 14:008m
  4. 15:009mpeak
  5. 16:009m
  6. 17:009m
  7. 18:009m

Arrive for 12:00. Queues climb to their peak around 15:00 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. 1Flying Turns ~43 min typical · up to 62 at peak · worst around 4pm43m
  2. 2Haunted Antique Cars ~32 min typical · up to 60 at peak · worst around 8pm32m
  3. 3Black Diamond ~30 min typical · up to 47 at peak · worst around 4pm30m

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. 1Phoenix~26 min typical · about 7 min after 5pm7m
  2. 2Impulse~20 min typical · about 5 min after 9pm5m
  3. 3Twister~18 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  4. 4Kozmo's Kurves~16 min typical · about 5 min after 9pm5m
  5. 5Bumper Cars~14 min typical · about 5 min after 5pm5m

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 minutesUmbrella Ride5mSpanish Bambini5mSatellite5mS&G Carousel5mRed Baron5mPony Carts5mPete's Fleet5mParadrop5m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Scenic Skywayrunning 76% of the park's open hours76%
  2. 2Cosmotronrunning 80% of the park's open hours80%
  3. 3Looperrunning 82% of the park's open hours82%

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

With a free account you 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.

FreeGet the day-of sheet with a free account

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.

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.