SF Darien Lake question

Two questions:

1) how heavy are the crowds at this park

2) to ride the various coasters a few times, how long should we plan to stay?  Open till close?  A few hours? what?

Thanks

The waterpark is packed most of the time, and the rest of the park is USUALLY only crowded on weekends. If you want to ride each coaster a few times, I'd say 5 hours is good. When the line for superman is long, the park can actually get pretty boring.

don't forget to go to martin's fantasy island and ride the cci coaster the silver comet, it's not very far. five hours is plenty of time for sfdl.

This park only has 5 coasters and 2 of them are a boomerang clone and an SLC clone, so you may not even want to bother with those.  As for S:RoS, predator, & Viper, 5 hours is plenty of time to do them all multiple times...

Due to horrible opperations as of recently, your better off going on a weekend (if your going for the coasters)...

There will be more people in the park, but lines will still be much faster (unless of course they clean up their act this year...)

Example one: 1 train on S:ros, only one parking lot full, wait time for full queue: about 1 hour - 1 hour 3 minutes. 2 trains on S:ROS, both parking lots (almost) full: 3/4 queue: 30-40 minutes.

I went on about 5 weekend days and 6 weekday days (One concert day) .. hell, I'd take the concert day over a monday because they have two trains and everything and everything actually runs fast. However, if they do have two trains running on the rides during the week, consider yourself lucky! Superman is about 25 minutes tops, Predator 10 minutes tops, Viper 5 minutes tops, Mind Eraser 15 minutes tops as long as two trains are running and there are no concerts (during the week). On "normal" weekdays, assuming one car is running for the following, wait for S:ros run is around 1 hour, Viper wait is around 30 - 45 minutes [Yes, I know its scary], Mind Eraser is about 45 minutes, Boomerang [not sure], and Predator is around 30 minutes. On a weekend, assuming two cars are running for everything, waits will be around 40 minutes for S:ROS, 10-20 minutes for Viper, 10-20 minutes for Predator, 10-20 minutes for Boomerang, 10-20 minutes for Mind Eraser.

If you get a good day, you can get on S:ros 30+ times in a row in a day (0-6 minute waits) [oh yes, the memories of that day last year]. Predator you can get tons of re-rides on, but it will start getting painfull after 10 rides no matter how much you've been 'trained' for rought coasters, only 2 or 3 if your not used to rought rides.

Hope that helped.

It doesn't help much to me.

Every time I have gone there during the 2001 season (which was over a dozen times, mind you)... there was never a wait more than 15 minutes for the Viper. The Viper always had 2 trains running. I rarely, if ever, saw it running just 1 train... and this was on days when there was barely a crowd!!! So sometimes you can get walk-on again & again (it's worth it too).

Boomerang is about 20 minutes tops that I've seen it... but the average is between 10 and 15 minutes.

Predator is about 15 to 30 minutes tops. 30 minutes if only 1 train is running... and that happens a lot!!

Mind Eraser? It can either be a virtual walk-on, or a nightmare wait. In other words.... 5 to 10 minutes if 2 trains are running, and 20 to 30 minutes if 1 train is running.

As for Superman... that was already stated in previous posts.

Mind you, this is weekend data as all my trips were on weekends or holidays.

For any water-rides... the wait can actually be longer than Superman... and especially this year, people will definately want to wait up to an hour to ride the shoot-the-chutes.

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