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Thunderhead ® — wait times

Thunderhead ® at Dollywood. Right now the queue is 20 minutes.

Busiest around 11am (about 18 min) and quietest around 7pm (about 3 min).

Of the days recorded so far, Saturday averages the longest queue, at about 12 minutes.

Closed during 3% of the readings taken while the park was fully open. The feed does not say why, so that covers refurbishment and weather as well as breakdowns.

The longest queue we have recorded is 80 minutes on 2026-10-05, the shortest 0 minutes on 2026-08-13.

Typical wait through the day

10am10 min23 readings
11am18 min29 readings
12pm16 min26 readings
1pm11 min29 readings
2pm8 min40 readings
3pm9 min42 readings
4pm6 min43 readings
5pm8 min42 readings
6pm5 min41 readings
7pm3 min38 readings
8pm5 min15 readings

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