Theme Park Wait Times / Carowinds / Tidal Wave Bay
Tidal Wave Bay Wait Times
Waterpark Pool · 42" minimum height · Carowinds
Tidal Wave Bay is not operating today.
Live ride status for Tidal Wave Bay. Carowinds publishes open and closed status for Tidal Wave Bay 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 Tidal Wave Bay
Carowinds publishes open and closed status for Tidal Wave Bay 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.
Tidal Wave Bay wait time FAQ
▾What is the wait for Tidal Wave Bay right now?
Carowinds does not post a wait time for Tidal Wave Bay, 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 469 hours that Carowinds was open, Tidal Wave Bay was running 92.35% of the time, with 17 separate interruptions. That ranks #14 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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