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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom cheat sheet

worked out from 23 days of our own wait data18 rides

Arrive for 12:00 and ride Medusa, Sidewinder Safari and THE JOKER first. Leave Boomerang Coast-to-Coaster until after 7pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes. The park's queues peak around 16:00 at 28 minutes and are lowest around 12:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest month
June
Busiest month
March

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. 12:0017mquietest
  2. 13:0022m
  3. 14:0023m
  4. 15:0027m
  5. 16:0028mpeak
  6. 17:0026m
  7. 18:0028m

Arrive for 12:00. 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. 1Medusa ~41 min typical · up to 58 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour41m
  2. 2Sidewinder Safari ~41 min typical · up to 57 at peak · worst around 11pm41m
  3. 3THE JOKER ~37 min typical · up to 45 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour37m

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. 1Boomerang Coast-to-Coaster~26 min typical · about 5 min after 7pm5m
  2. 2WONDER WOMAN Lasso of Truth~31 min typical · about 13 min after 6pm13m
  3. 3SkyScreamer~28 min typical · about 11 min after 7pm11m
  4. 4Kong~26 min typical · about 10 min after 7pm10m
  5. 5SUPERMAN Ultimate Flight~29 min typical · about 17 min after 7pm17m

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 minutesAcme Fun Factory2mScat-A-Bout4mMonkey Business4mBoardwalk Bumper Buggies4mWave Swinger4mThrilla Gorilla5m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1WONDER WOMAN Lasso of Truthrunning 74% of the park's open hours74%
  2. 2White Water Safarirunning 78% of the park's open hours78%
  3. 3THE JOKERrunning 79% of the park's open hours79%
  4. 4SkyScreamerrunning 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.