Best Rides at Kings Island
The headline rides, ranked by typical wait time
These are the most popular rides at Kings Island, ordered by how long people typically queue for them. A longer typical wait is a good proxy for the must-do, headline attractions. Tap any ride for its live wait time, busiest hours and reliability.
Top rides by typical wait
24 rides ranked · longest typical queue first
- 1Flight Of Fear~53 min typical wait up to 67 min at peak
- 2Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare~37 min typical wait up to 51 min at peak
- 3The Beast~35 min typical wait up to 61 min at peak
- 4Diamondback~32 min typical wait up to 51 min at peak
- 5Surf Dog~28 min typical wait up to 33 min at peak
- 6Mystic Timbers~28 min typical wait up to 37 min at peak
- 7White Water Canyon~28 min typical wait up to 38 min at peak
- 8Invertigo~27 min typical wait up to 35 min at peak
- 9Charlie Brown's Rushing River Log Ride~27 min typical wait up to 34 min at peak
- 10Queen City Stunt Coaster~24 min typical wait up to 34 min at peak
- 11Orion~24 min typical wait up to 42 min at peak
- 12Woodstock's Air Rail~23 min typical wait up to 45 min at peak
- 13Woodstock Express~22 min typical wait up to 36 min at peak
- 14Banshee~22 min typical wait up to 55 min at peak
- 15Kings Mills Antique Autos~22 min typical wait up to 30 min at peak
- 16The Bat~20 min typical wait up to 35 min at peak
- 17Drop Tower~15 min typical wait up to 34 min at peak
- 18Delirium~14 min typical wait up to 24 min at peak
- 19Franklin's Flyers~14 min typical wait up to 20 min at peak
- 20Adventure Express~13 min typical wait up to 23 min at peak
- 21Snoopy's Soap Box Racers~13 min typical wait up to 20 min at peak
- 22Sol Spin~12 min typical wait up to 21 min at peak
- 23Racer Blue~11 min typical wait up to 21 min at peak
- 24Racer Red~10 min typical wait up to 16 min at peak
Ranking is by each ride's typical wait time, which we use as a popularity proxy - the rides people queue longest for tend to be the headline attractions. It isn't an editorial "best" score.