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Six Flags Great America cheat sheet

worked out from 27 days of our own wait data21 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Raging Bull, Maxx Force and SUPERMAN™: Ultimate Flight first. Leave Wrath of Rakshasa until after 11pm, when its queue drops to about 25 minutes. The park's queues peak around 16:00 at 38 minutes and are lowest around 11:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Saturday
Busiest weekday
Sunday
Quietest month
July
Busiest month
April

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. 11:0016mquietest
  2. 12:0018m
  3. 13:0025m
  4. 14:0029m
  5. 15:0032m
  6. 16:0038mpeak
  7. 17:0024m
  8. 18:0025m
  9. 19:0026m
  10. 20:0027m
  11. 21:0023m

Arrive for 11:00. 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. 1Raging Bull ~71 min typical71m
  2. 2Maxx Force ~50 min typical · up to 90 at peak · worst around 4pm50m
  3. 3SUPERMAN™: Ultimate Flight ~50 min typical · up to 89 at peak · worst around 1pm50m

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. 1Wrath of Rakshasa~47 min typical · about 25 min after 11pm25m
  2. 2Whizzer~38 min typical · about 20 min after 11pm20m
  3. 3The Lobster~13 min typical · about 7 min after 9pm7m

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 minutesRue Le Dodge8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Raging Bullrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Maxx Forcerunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  3. 3American Eaglerunning 53% of the park's open hours53%
  4. 4Goliathrunning 77% of the park's open hours77%
  5. 5American Eagle Red Siderunning 81% of the park's open hours81%

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.