You can ride other rides first and ride GhostRider later, but you’ll have a longer wait for it as a result. Option #2 is the easiest, but the most time consuming. If it’s a week day during spring or fall, you can probably get away with arriving right when the park opens. If it’s the weekend or a busy summer day, we recommend arriving 30 minutes before the park opens. It’s the easiest, but requires advance planning. Option #1 requires you plan your arrival to the park before the gates open. Try your luck at a shorter line near park closing.Ride GhostRider later in the day, where in all likelihood it will be 2+ hours for the weekends.Get to the park before it opens and rush to the entrance.If you have a Fast Lane pass, you can cut the wait time down considerably. In some cases when it’s really crowded, the line even goes out past the main entrance into the main walkways. The line fills up first and most likely has the longest wait time out of all the rides in the park. Sometimes the park will open 10-15 minutes earlier than scheduled and the people who really got there a half hour before park opening run straight to GhostRider. As soon as the park opens, people rush to the line to ride it first thing. In all seriousness, the lines are some of the worst at the park on a weekend or summer day. 😀Įxpect the line to be LONG, and if it’s short then it’s a good day! 🙂 Pick-axes, sledgehammers, gold panning pans, lanterns, and similar decorations adorn the walls.Īs for the name of the Ghost Rider icon himself, he’s currently a mystery to everything and everyone around him. This is the typical American Old West style barn. It is a gambrel roof barn, so there’s a huge sloped roof and a door that is looks like it’s made for horses. There is a barn looking building that houses a large portion of the lines for the ride. It won’t cure your boredom, but it is fun to watch for a few minutes. There is also a gold panning experience near the start of the line that you have to access before in line. While waiting, you can see the ride in its initial dip before it goes up the chain hill. When first entering the line, it looks as if you’re going down a creepy tunnel, which opens up into a traditional ride line. Cowboys, dynamite, horses, mining equipment, gold-panning, and so on are common themes throughout the ride and its decor. GhostRider leans heavily on the Old West style theme. Check the ride information on for the latest details.
Pregnant women or people who have recently had surgery cannot ride. The rider safety guide is typical for coasters like this: riders must be over 4 feet tall and be of reasonable weight. It’s entrance looks as if it’s a cave chiseled into a mountainside. It is one of the closest if not THE closest ride to the front gate. It can be seen from Beach Blvd (and heard from the screams of riders) as you are walking up from the parking lot to the ticket booths.Īfter entering the park, hang a slight left and its entrance will be on the left-hand side as you walk into Ghost Town. It is near the front of the park, in Ghost Town. Now, we don’t need to see a chiropractor after riding it. Reception was positive, and we can say from experience the refurbished GhostRider is MUCH smoother. In June 2016, GhostRider re-opened to much fanfare. They also removed a mid-ride stop to allow the coaster to have a higher velocity and used a different/stronger type of wood than the previous kind. In 2015, it was closed for several months for refurbishment to fix these issues. Of course, one’s experience might have been different depending on your body size, but it was rough. One would often be sore getting off the ride, in your back or hips or legs.
Often, riders would be thrown around in the cars and it would cause the occasional ache or pain. It was a fun coaster….but wasn’t the most gentle ride. After a brief closure after opening to fix a broken piece of wood that fell off, it remained calm and stable for years. It originally opened on December 8th 1998 and is the longest, tallest and fastest wooden coaster on the West Coast. GhostRider IS the most popular ride in the park however. That is what the GhostRider line is like after park opening. You know the classic Black Friday scene on the news after Thanksgiving, where there’s a mad rush of people who wait in line all night to buy TVs when Best Buy opens at 5am? How people literally RUN to the back of the store to be the first ones there?
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