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Knotts Berry Farm cheat sheet

worked out from 45 days of our own wait data17 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride GhostRider, Xcelerator The Ride® and HangTime first. Leave Timber Mountain Log Ride until after 4pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes. The park's queues peak around 16:00 at 16 minutes and are lowest around 10:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Tuesday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
August
Busiest month
December

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. 10:009mquietest
  2. 11:0010m
  3. 12:0012m
  4. 13:0013m
  5. 14:0015m
  6. 15:0015m
  7. 16:0016mpeak
  8. 17:0014m

Arrive for 10:00. 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. 1GhostRider ~57 min typical · up to 73 at peak · worst around 6pm57m
  2. 2Xcelerator The Ride® ~28 min typical · up to 23 at peak · worst around 6pm28m
  3. 3HangTime ~24 min typical · up to 13 at peak · worst around 6pm24m

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. 1Timber Mountain Log Ride~21 min typical · about 5 min after 4pm5m
  2. 2Sierra Sidewinder~23 min typical · about 8 min after 5pm8m
  3. 3Knott's Bear-y Tales: Return to the Fair~20 min typical · about 5 min after 4pm5m
  4. 4Silver Bullet~18 min typical · about 5 min after 4pm5m
  5. 5Jaguar!~21 min typical · about 9 min after 5pm9m

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 minutesSupreme Scream8mSol Spin9mLos Voladores9mSingle-rider lineGhostRider

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1MonteZOOMa: The Forbidden Fortressrunning 53% of the park's open hours53%
  2. 2Knott's Bear-y Tales: Return to the Fairrunning 62% of the park's open hours62%
  3. 3La Revolucionrunning 84% of the park's open hours84%

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.