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Six Flags New England cheat sheet

worked out from 17 days of our own wait data38 rides

Arrive for 12:00 and ride Quantum Accelerator, HARLEY QUINN™ Spinsanity and Pandemonium first. The park's queues peak around 17:00 at 17 minutes and are lowest around 12:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Saturday
Busiest weekday
Sunday
Quietest month
November
Busiest month
September

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. 12:007mquietest
  2. 13:009m
  3. 14:0011m
  4. 15:0013m
  5. 16:0015m
  6. 17:0017mpeak
  7. 18:0017m
  8. 19:0016m
  9. 20:0016m

Arrive for 12:00. 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 ~35 min typical · up to 45 at peak · worst around 3pm35m
  2. 2HARLEY QUINN™ Spinsanity ~20 min typical · up to 46 at peak · worst around 5pm20m
  3. 3Pandemonium ~20 min typical · up to 38 at peak · worst around 4pm20m

Straight to these from the gate, in this order. Every minute before the park fills is worth three later.

Fill the gaps with

Walk-ons at any hour, and the single-rider lines

Usually under 10 minutesRock N Rodeo5mNew England Express5mKrazy Kups5mKrazy Kars5mHoudini - The Great Escape5mThe Great Chase5mDaffy Duck Hollywood Tours5mZoom Jets5m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1THE RIDDLER™ Revengerunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Pandemoniumrunning 68% of the park's open hours68%
  3. 3New England SkyScreamerrunning 68% of the park's open hours68%
  4. 4BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT™running 83% of the park's open hours83%
  5. 5HARLEY QUINN™ Spinsanityrunning 84% of the park's open hours84%

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.