Theme Park Wait Times / Cedar Point / Balloon Race
Balloon Race Wait Times
Family · 36" minimum height · Cedar Point
Balloon Race is not operating today.
Live ride status for Balloon Race. Cedar Point publishes open and closed status for Balloon Race but does not post a wait time for it, so there is no wait history to chart here.
Park hours today: 10am–8pm
Best time to ride Balloon Race
Cedar Point publishes open and closed status for Balloon Race 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.
Balloon Race wait time FAQ
▾What is the wait for Balloon Race right now?
Cedar Point does not post a wait time for Balloon Race, 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 974 hours that Cedar Point was open, Balloon Race was running 95.36% of the time, with 32 separate interruptions. That ranks #34 for availability out of 68 tracked rides at Cedar Point, where the typical ride runs 95.4% 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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