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Six Flags New England cheat sheet

worked out from 50 days of our own wait data38 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Quantum Accelerator, Thunderbolt and Wicked Cyclone first. Leave HARLEY QUINN™ Spinsanity until after 3pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes. The park's queues peak around 14:00 at 13 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
Monday
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. 14:0013mpeak
  5. 15:0013m
  6. 16:0013m
  7. 17:0013m
  8. 18:0013m
  9. 19:0012m

Arrive for 11:00. Queues climb to their peak around 14:00 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 ~41 min typical · up to 61 at peak · worst around 4pm41m
  2. 2Thunderbolt ~27 min typical · up to 43 at peak · worst around 4pm27m
  3. 3Wicked Cyclone ~23 min typical · up to 34 at peak · worst around 5pm23m

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. 1HARLEY QUINN™ Spinsanity~23 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  2. 2New England SkyScreamer~23 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  3. 3THE JOKER™ 4D Free Fly Coaster~22 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  4. 4THE RIDDLER™ Revenge~20 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m
  5. 5GOTHAM CITY GAUNTLET ESCAPE FROM ARKHAM ASYLUM™~19 min typical · about 5 min after 3pm5m

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 minutesRock N Rodeo5mKrazy Kups5mKrazy Kars5mHoudini - The Great Escape5mZoom Jets5mZinger Swings5mAnimation Department5mDaffy Duck Hollywood Tours6m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1SUPERMAN™ The Riderunning 49% of the park's open hours49%
  2. 2Blizzard Riverrunning 57% of the park's open hours57%
  3. 3HARLEY QUINN™ Spinsanityrunning 74% of the park's open hours74%
  4. 4GOTHAM CITY GAUNTLET ESCAPE FROM ARKHAM ASYLUM™running 74% of the park's open hours74%
  5. 5Thunderboltrunning 78% of the park's open hours78%

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.