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Six Flags Great America cheat sheet

worked out from 28 days of our own wait data21 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Raging Bull, Maxx Force and Wrath of Rakshasa first. Leave Demon until after 9pm, when its queue drops to about 5 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
Friday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
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. 11:0017mquietest
  2. 12:0021m
  3. 13:0028m
  4. 14:0032m
  5. 15:0036m
  6. 16:0038mpeak
  7. 17:0027m
  8. 18:0025m
  9. 19:0025m
  10. 20:0025m
  11. 21:0021m

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 ~50 min typical · up to 67 at peak · worst around 4pm50m
  2. 2Maxx Force ~49 min typical · up to 69 at peak · worst around 4pm49m
  3. 3Wrath of Rakshasa ~47 min typical · up to 64 at peak · worst around 4pm47m

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. 1Demon~27 min typical · about 5 min after 9pm5m
  2. 2SUPERMAN™: Ultimate Flight~46 min typical · about 26 min after 9pm26m
  3. 3Whizzer~38 min typical · about 22 min after 10pm22m
  4. 4American Eagle~22 min typical · about 7 min after 10pm7m
  5. 5Giant Drop~17 min typical · about 5 min after 6pm5m

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 Dodge9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Raging Bullrunning 47% of the park's open hours47%
  2. 2THE JOKER™ Free-Fly Coasterrunning 65% of the park's open hours65%
  3. 3American Eagle Red Siderunning 73% of the park's open hours73%
  4. 4American Eaglerunning 79% of the park's open hours79%
  5. 5Sky Strikerrunning 82% of the park's open hours82%

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.