Theme Park Wait Times / Valleyfair! / The Wave
The Wave Wait Times
Water · 46" minimum height · Valleyfair!
Live ride status for The Wave. Valleyfair! publishes open and closed status for The Wave but does not post a wait time for it, so there is no wait history to chart here.
Park hours today: 7pm–11pm
Best time to ride The Wave
Valleyfair! publishes open and closed status for The Wave 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.
The Wave wait time FAQ
▾What is the wait for The Wave right now?
Valleyfair! does not post a wait time for The Wave, 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 1,266 hours that Valleyfair! was open, The Wave was running 98.13% of the time, with 15 separate interruptions. That ranks #12 for availability out of 36 tracked rides at Valleyfair!, where the typical ride runs 98.44% of operating hours.
Measured 2026-05-23 to 2026-09-30 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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