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Cedar Point cheat sheet

worked out from 39 days of our own wait data21 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Top Thrill 2, Maverick and Siren's Curse first. Leave Steel Vengeance until after 3pm, when its queue drops to about 21 minutes. The park's queues peak around 10:00 at 28 minutes and are lowest around 18:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Thursday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
August
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. 10:0028mpeak
  2. 11:0028m
  3. 12:0026m
  4. 13:0025m
  5. 14:0025m
  6. 15:0025m
  7. 16:0025m
  8. 17:0023m
  9. 18:0021mquietest
  10. 19:0021m
  11. 20:0025m
  12. 21:0021m

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 10:00 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. 1Top Thrill 2 ~63 min typical · up to 80 at peak · worst around 8pm63m
  2. 2Maverick ~58 min typical · up to 70 at peak · worst around 7pm58m
  3. 3Siren's Curse ~54 min typical · up to 68 at peak · worst around 4pm54m

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. 1Steel Vengeance~50 min typical · about 21 min after 3pm21m
  2. 2Valravn~39 min typical · about 18 min after 3pm18m
  3. 3Wild Mouse~25 min typical · about 9 min after 4pm9m
  4. 4Pipe Scream~19 min typical · about 6 min after 4pm6m
  5. 5Gemini~15 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 minutesPower Tower Shot8mmaXair9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Geminirunning 23% of the park's open hours23%
  2. 2Magnum XL-200running 34% of the park's open hours34%
  3. 3Cedar Creek Mine Riderunning 61% of the park's open hours61%
  4. 4Rougarourunning 61% of the park's open hours61%
  5. 5Iron Dragonrunning 62% of the park's open hours62%

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.