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Six Flags Great Adventure cheat sheet

worked out from 44 days of our own wait data20 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride SUPERMAN™: Ultimate Flight, THE FLASH™: Vertical Velocity and Barrels O’ Fun first. Leave El Toro until after 3pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes. The park's queues peak around 15:00 at 29 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
Sunday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
March
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. 11:0025m
  2. 12:0025m
  3. 13:0025m
  4. 14:0028m
  5. 15:0029mpeak
  6. 16:0028m
  7. 17:0028m
  8. 18:0027m
  9. 19:0023mquietest

Arrive for 11:00. 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. 1SUPERMAN™: Ultimate Flight ~71 min typical · up to 120 at peak · worst around 10pm71m
  2. 2THE FLASH™: Vertical Velocity ~46 min typical · up to 68 at peak · worst around 7pm46m
  3. 3Barrels O’ Fun ~41 min typical · up to 66 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour41m

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. 1El Toro~40 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  2. 2Saw Mill Log Flume~34 min typical · about 6 min after 3pm6m
  3. 3Nitro~29 min typical · about 7 min after 4pm7m
  4. 4HARLEY QUINN™ Crazy Train~27 min typical · about 6 min after 3pm6m
  5. 5JUSTICE LEAGUE™: Battle for METROPOLIS~30 min typical · about 16 min after 3pm16m

Save them for the last two hours, when the coach parties have gone and the queue is a fraction of the afternoon's.

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Saw Mill Log Flumerunning 33% of the park's open hours33%
  2. 2Giant Wheelrunning 50% of the park's open hours50%
  3. 3Jersey Devil Coasterrunning 61% of the park's open hours61%
  4. 4El Tororunning 65% of the park's open hours65%
  5. 5Houdini’s Great Escaperunning 72% of the park's open hours72%

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.