Being from WAY downstate (an hour south of St. Louis, to be precise,) opportunities to visit SFGAm are rare. Chicagoland friends and I visited last June and waited in the standard hour to hour-and-a-half long lines for Raging Bull, Superman, etc. Our plan this year was to go at what we thought was the best possible time: a weekday, middle of the week, in May, in order to avoid the crowds. Great idea.
If there wasn't five or six school groups there we'd have had our run of the place. I lost the precise order of events, but we counted twenty-seven rides in our eight hours there, or an average of 17.7 minutes walking to the ride, standing in line and riding - not bad for a day in the mid 80's with no rain. No waiting on Superman for the front. Didn't have to get out of the seat to re-ride Demon or Revolution. Tamed the Bull three times; total wait time maybe 25 minutes between the three trips. No waiting at all for the Whizzer.
One group of eighth grade grads on their school trip needed to be banned from the park. The girls in the brief queue for Loggers Run were spitting on their classmates already seated below, and later on a couple of their male peers jumped the railing to get seated on Demon before they opened the gates (while we remained seated for our second ride and the rest of the riders departed.) I thought the ride operator, after sweetly telling us moments before that we could ride again, was going to kill those chubby teenagers as she yelled for them to get back into line.
Between the six of us, none could remember a more fun day at the park. We're already planning an annual May weekday tradition.
Two cars running on Bull; didn't pay much attention on others. Park really thinned out in the last couple hours (4 to 6.)
Raging Bull 3
Demon 2
Superman 2
Batman 2
Revolution 2
Eagle 1
Viper 1
Whizzer 1
Dark Knight 1
Loggers Run 1
Roaring Rapids 1
Buccaneer Battle 1
Whirligig! 1
(I sat out while the friends did...)
Giant Drop 3
V2 1
King Chaos 1
Eagle 1
Ragin' Cajun 1
Iron Wolf 1
