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From the main gate: head right to Top Thrill 2 or Siren's Curse (pick one, the window only fits one) while standby is under 35 min, or walk the full 15–20 min to Steel Vengeance and Maverick before Frontier Town crowds catch up. Don't try both before noon.
Read the full play 02Top Thrill 2
Top Thrill 2 holds 60–75 minute averages from 11a to 9p and gives back almost nothing at close. It's an Early Entry ride or a rope-drop ride, and there's no good middle. Wind closures are common. If it's down at open, pivot to Siren's Curse and re-check after lunch.
Read the full play 03Evening plays
Raptor (-41%), Gemini (-40%), Rougarou (-42%), and GateKeeper (-37%) are the real closing-window plays. Steel Vengeance joins them late, near 27 min at 9p. Siren's Curse usually doesn't; its evening dip shows up about 1 day in 4.
Read the full playTop rides at this park
Typical wait ranges from 1,000,000+ historical samples, the model's best dip windows, and the alert thresholds Skip will pre-fill if you set this park as your home in the app.
Millennium Midway
Tilt coaster · North America's tallest, fastest & longest
One of the longest sustained waits at the park, averaging 66–71 min from 11a to 5p, and a real evening dip shows up only about 1 day in 4. Rope drop is the only realistic no-Fast-Lane-Plus window.
Top Thrill 2 Midway
Triple-launch strata coaster · 420 ft · 120 mph
Holds over an hour from 11a to 9p and barely drops at close, the flattest evening curve at the park. Wind and mechanical closures are real; have a pivot plan. Rope drop or Early Entry is the only cheap window.
Frontier Town
Hyper-hybrid coaster · 205 ft · 4 inversions
Far back of the peninsula, a 15–20 min walk from the gate. Two real windows: about 23 min in the opening hour vs 65 at peak, and it falls back to about 27 min at 9p on late-close nights.
Frontier Town
Launched coaster · 105 ft · 70 mph · 2 launches
The highest all-day average at the park: an 80-minute plateau from noon to 5p. It posts 45–60 within the first half hour, so chain it with Steel Vengeance at rope drop, Maverick first. Evenings give back about 30% at best.
Millennium Midway
Giga coaster · 310 ft · 93 mph · world's first giga
Averages about 21 min in the opening hour and builds gradually, the gentlest climb of the Tier-1 coasters. Falls back near 30 min by 9p. Good swing ride if Top Thrill 2 is down.
Main Midway
Dive coaster · B&M · 223 ft · 3 inversions
The most underrated rope-drop target. 9 min at 10a but 48 min by 1p, the biggest morning-to-midday climb at the park. Also drops 33% by close, making it a solid evening fallback.
Wait times by hour
On a typical Friday, Top Thrill 2 has the longest line of Cedar Point's 6 featured rides, peaking around 75 minutes near 4pm. Across them, waits are lightest around 11pm (about 26 min on average) and heaviest around 12pm (about 49 min). The crowd forecast for Fri, Oct 23 is Packed, 9 out of 10.
| Ride | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siren's Curse | 45 | 70 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 60 | 60 | 45 | 60 | 45 | 60 | 60 | 35 |
| Top Thrill 2 | 45 | 60 | 60 | 45 | 45 | 75 | 60 | 60 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 60 | 45 |
| Steel Vengeance | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 30 | 45 | 30 | 30 | 20 |
| Maverick | 45 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 30 | 30 |
| Millennium Force | 25 | 30 | 35 | 30 | 30 | 20 | 25 | 22 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 20 |
| Valravn | 30 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 15 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 5 |
Median posted wait in minutes by hour on Fridays, last 90 days.
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If you only have one day
Don't try to ride everything. Skip will help you sequence based on the dips you flag.
Pre-fill Skip's defaults from the cards above. Tighten as the day unfolds.
Then pivot lands when the next alert pings. Buffer with shows or food.
Crowds often soften late. Tighten thresholds for a second wave.
FAQ
The wait ranges on this page are typical and historical, refreshed nightly. When a live board shows at the top, its numbers are posted waits from the last few minutes. For live waits and drop alerts all day, use the Ride Ready app.
No. They're high-probability windows, not guarantees. Skip's alerts in the app catch the changes.
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Of the 6 featured rides on this page, Top Thrill 2. On a typical Friday, its median posted wait peaks around 75 minutes near 4pm.
Around 11pm. On a typical Friday, posted waits on Cedar Point's 6 featured rides average about 26 minutes then, against about 49 at 12pm.