Theme Park Wait Times / California's Great America / Thunder Raceway
Thunder Raceway Wait Times
Thunder Raceway is not operating today.
Live ride status for Thunder Raceway. California's Great America publishes open and closed status for Thunder Raceway but does not post a wait time for it, so there is no wait history to chart here.
Best time to ride Thunder Raceway
California's Great America publishes open and closed status for Thunder Raceway 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.
Thunder Raceway wait time FAQ
▾What is the wait for Thunder Raceway right now?
California's Great America does not post a wait time for Thunder Raceway, 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 576 hours that California's Great America was open, Thunder Raceway was running 97.3% of the time, with 16 separate interruptions. That ranks #34 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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