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Kings Dominion cheat sheet

worked out from 26 days of our own wait data24 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Shenandoah Lumber Co., Flight of Fear and Woodstock Express first. Leave Rapterra until after 3pm, when its queue drops to about 8 minutes. The park's queues peak around 16:00 at 17 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
October
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. 11:007mquietest
  2. 12:0010m
  3. 13:0013m
  4. 14:0015m
  5. 15:0016m
  6. 16:0017mpeak
  7. 17:0016m
  8. 18:0015m

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. 1Shenandoah Lumber Co. ~32 min typical · up to 40 at peak · worst around 6pm32m
  2. 2Flight of Fear ~22 min typical · up to 52 at peak · worst around 5pm22m
  3. 3Woodstock Express ~20 min typical · up to 34 at peak · worst around 6pm20m

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. 1Rapterra~19 min typical · about 8 min after 3pm8m
  2. 2Backlot Stunt Coaster~15 min typical · about 4 min after 3pm4m
  3. 3Blue Ridge Tollway~16 min typical · about 6 min after 3pm6m
  4. 4Boo Blasters on Boo Hill~15 min typical · about 6 min after 3pm6m
  5. 5Twisted Timbers~14 min typical · about 6 min after 5pm6m

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 minutesDrop Tower3mCarousel4mWave Swinger5mBad Apple5mRacer 755mDominator5mDelirium6mWindSeeker6m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Shenandoah Lumber Co.running 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Racer 75 - Southrunning 11% of the park's open hours11%
  3. 3Woodstock Expressrunning 25% of the park's open hours25%
  4. 4Boo Blasters on Boo Hillrunning 41% of the park's open hours41%
  5. 5Reptilianrunning 73% of the park's open hours73%

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.