Theme Park Wait Times / California's Great America / Character Carousel
Character Carousel Wait Times
Character Carousel is not operating today.
Live ride status for Character Carousel. California's Great America publishes open and closed status for Character Carousel but does not post a wait time for it, so there is no wait history to chart here.
Best time to ride Character Carousel
California's Great America publishes open and closed status for Character Carousel but does not post a wait time for it, so there is no measured wait to chart. Printing a zero here would report an absence of data as a walk-on, so we do not. Live ride status is above.
Character Carousel wait time FAQ
▾What is the wait for Character Carousel right now?
California's Great America does not post a wait time for Character Carousel, so Thoosie can show whether it is open but not how long the line is. A zero here would mean no data, not a walk-on, so we do not print one.
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Reliability, measured
How often this ride was actually running, not how long the line was.
Across 731 hours that California's Great America was open, Character Carousel was running 98.05% of the time, with 19 separate interruptions. That ranks #43 for availability out of 54 tracked rides at California's Great America, where the typical ride runs 96.68% of operating hours.
Measured 2026-05-23 to 2026-08-15 from ride status polled about every minute. Scheduled refurbishment is recorded separately and is not counted as an outage. How we measure
Ride status polled about every minute. No wait time is posted for this ride, so no wait figures are published here · How we measure
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