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Six Flags New England cheat sheet

worked out from 22 days of our own wait data38 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Quantum Accelerator, Wicked Cyclone and Thunderbolt first. Leave Pandemonium until after 8pm, when its queue drops to about 8 minutes. The park's queues peak around 17:00 at 16 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
Sunday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
November
Busiest month
October

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. 11:007mquietest
  2. 12:0010m
  3. 13:0012m
  4. 14:0013m
  5. 15:0014m
  6. 16:0015m
  7. 17:0016mpeak
  8. 18:0016m
  9. 19:0015m
  10. 20:0014m

Arrive for 11:00. Queues climb to their peak around 17:00 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. 1Quantum Accelerator ~45 min typical · up to 65 at peak · worst around 4pm45m
  2. 2Wicked Cyclone ~29 min typical · up to 52 at peak · worst around 5pm29m
  3. 3Thunderbolt ~27 min typical · up to 43 at peak · worst around 5pm27m

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. 1Pandemonium~25 min typical · about 8 min after 8pm8m

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 minutesThe Great Chase5mDaffy Duck Hollywood Tours5mWile E. Coyote Speed Trap5mWacky Wagons5mTweety's Clubhouse5mTaz Prop Delivery Company5m1909 Illions Grand Carousel5mShips Ahoy!6m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Animation Departmentrunning 63% of the park's open hours63%
  2. 2Quantum Acceleratorrunning 70% of the park's open hours70%
  3. 3SUPERMAN™ The Riderunning 76% of the park's open hours76%
  4. 4Thunderboltrunning 78% of the park's open hours78%
  5. 5Wicked Cyclonerunning 79% of the park's open hours79%

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.