Theme Park Wait Times / Valleyfair! / Northern Lights
Northern Lights Wait Times
Thrill · 48" minimum height · Valleyfair!
Live ride status for Northern Lights. Valleyfair! publishes open and closed status for Northern Lights but does not post a wait time for it, so there is no wait history to chart here.
Park hours today: 10am–8pm
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Valleyfair! publishes open and closed status for Northern Lights 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.
Northern Lights wait time FAQ
▾What is the wait for Northern Lights right now?
Valleyfair! does not post a wait time for Northern Lights, 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 440 hours that Valleyfair! was open, Northern Lights was running 92.06% of the time, with 12 separate interruptions. That ranks #2 for availability out of 34 tracked rides at Valleyfair!, where the typical ride runs 98.98% 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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