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Silver Dollar City cheat sheet

worked out from 53 days of our own wait data27 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Elephant March, Frisco Steam Train and Ladybugs first. Leave Mystic River Falls until after 3pm, when its queue drops to about 11 minutes. The park's queues peak around 11:00 at 20 minutes and are lowest around 17:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Friday
Busiest weekday
Sunday
Quietest month
June
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.

The shape of the day

Average queue across the park, hour by hour

  1. 10:0019m
  2. 11:0020mpeak
  3. 12:0020m
  4. 13:0019m
  5. 14:0019m
  6. 15:0019m
  7. 16:0018m
  8. 17:0017mquietest
  9. 18:0019m

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 11:00 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. 1Elephant March ~47 min typical47m
  2. 2Frisco Steam Train ~47 min typical · up to 30 at peak · worst around 5pm47m
  3. 3Ladybugs ~45 min typical45m

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. 1Mystic River Falls~25 min typical · about 11 min after 3pm11m
  2. 2Electro Spin~20 min typical · about 6 min after 4pm6m
  3. 3Fire Wagon Frenzy~17 min typical · about 6 min after 6pm6m
  4. 4Grand Exposition Coaster~13 min typical · about 6 min after 6pm6m
  5. 5WildFire~12 min typical · about 7 min after 3pm7m

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 minutesMighty Galleon6mThunderation9mOutlaw Run9mAmerican Plunge9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1PowderKegrunning 74% of the park's open hours74%
  2. 2Time Travelerrunning 80% of the park's open hours80%
  3. 3Mystic River Fallsrunning 84% of the park's open hours84%
  4. 4Fire In The Holerunning 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.