Theme Park Wait Times / Carowinds / Pelican Plunge
Pelican Plunge Wait Times
Waterpark Slide · 36" minimum height · Carowinds
Pelican Plunge is not operating today.
Live ride status for Pelican Plunge. Carowinds publishes open and closed status for Pelican Plunge but does not post a wait time for it, so there is no wait history to chart here.
Park hours today: 6pm–12pm
Best time to ride Pelican Plunge
Carowinds publishes open and closed status for Pelican Plunge 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.
Pelican Plunge wait time FAQ
▾What is the wait for Pelican Plunge right now?
Carowinds does not post a wait time for Pelican Plunge, 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 515 hours that Carowinds was open, Pelican Plunge was running 98.65% of the time, with 2 separate interruptions. That ranks #40 for availability out of 58 tracked rides at Carowinds, where the typical ride runs 97.18% of operating hours.
Measured 2026-05-23 to 2026-10-01 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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