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Six Flags Great America cheat sheet

worked out from 45 days of our own wait data23 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Maxx Force, Wrath of Rakshasa and Whizzer first. Leave Sky Striker until after 5pm, when its queue drops to about 20 minutes. The park's queues peak around 15:00 at 29 minutes and are lowest around 21:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Friday
Busiest weekday
Monday
Quietest month
July
Busiest month
November

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. 11:0018m
  2. 12:0023m
  3. 13:0026m
  4. 14:0027m
  5. 15:0029mpeak
  6. 16:0029m
  7. 17:0027m
  8. 18:0023m
  9. 19:0021m
  10. 20:0018m
  11. 21:0015mquietest

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. 1Maxx Force ~46 min typical · up to 64 at peak · worst around 7pm46m
  2. 2Wrath of Rakshasa ~46 min typical · up to 60 at peak · worst around 5pm46m
  3. 3Whizzer ~43 min typical · up to 59 at peak · worst around 6pm43m

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. 1Sky Striker~36 min typical · about 20 min after 5pm20m
  2. 2AQUAMAN™ Splashdown~35 min typical · about 20 min after 5pm20m
  3. 3JUSTICE LEAGUE™: Battle for METROPOLIS~31 min typical · about 18 min after 5pm18m
  4. 4American Eagle~20 min typical · about 11 min after 5pm11m
  5. 5American Eagle Red Side~17 min typical · about 8 min after 5pm8m

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 minutesChubasco7mRue Le Dodge9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Roaring Rapidsrunning 33% of the park's open hours33%
  2. 2American Eaglerunning 41% of the park's open hours41%
  3. 3AQUAMAN™ Splashdownrunning 43% of the park's open hours43%
  4. 4American Eagle Red Siderunning 62% of the park's open hours62%
  5. 5Maxx Forcerunning 75% of the park's open hours75%

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.