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Silver Dollar City cheat sheet

worked out from 42 days of our own wait data28 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Fire In The Hole, Frisco Steam Train and Time Traveler first. Leave PowderKeg until after 9pm, when its queue drops to about 15 minutes. The park's queues peak around 14:00 at 19 minutes and are lowest around 19:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Monday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
April
Busiest month
August

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. 10:0017m
  2. 11:0018m
  3. 12:0018m
  4. 13:0018m
  5. 14:0019mpeak
  6. 15:0019m
  7. 16:0019m
  8. 17:0017m
  9. 18:0017m
  10. 19:0016mquietest
  11. 20:0016m

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. 1Fire In The Hole ~45 min typical · up to 59 at peak · worst around 4pm45m
  2. 2Frisco Steam Train ~37 min typical · up to 59 at peak · worst around 11am37m
  3. 3Time Traveler ~36 min typical · up to 59 at peak · worst around 11am36m

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. 1PowderKeg~33 min typical · about 15 min after 9pm15m
  2. 2Racing Regatta~24 min typical · about 9 min after 8pm9m
  3. 3Mystic River Falls~21 min typical · about 6 min after 8pm6m
  4. 4Magnificent Wave Carousel~25 min typical · about 11 min after 5pm11m
  5. 5Fire Spotter~28 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.

Fill the gaps with

Walk-ons at any hour, and the single-rider lines

Usually under 10 minutesLadybugs8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Tom & Huck's RiverBlastrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2American Plungerunning 32% of the park's open hours32%
  3. 3Mystic River Fallsrunning 42% of the park's open hours42%
  4. 4Frisco Steam Trainrunning 46% of the park's open hours46%
  5. 5PowderKegrunning 73% of the park's open hours73%

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.

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  • 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.