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Lightning Rod ® — wait times

Lightning Rod ® at Dollywood. Closed right now.

Busiest around 1pm (about 14 min) and quietest around 7pm (about 2 min).

Of the days recorded so far, Saturday averages the longest queue, at about 20 minutes.

Closed during 1% of the readings taken while the park was fully open. The feed does not say why, so that covers refurbishment and weather as well as breakdowns.

The longest queue we have recorded is 40 minutes on 2026-09-06, the shortest 0 minutes on 2026-08-12.

Typical wait through the day

10am5 min19 readings
11am7 min16 readings
12pm10 min15 readings
1pm14 min17 readings
2pm7 min24 readings
3pm9 min25 readings
4pm9 min25 readings
5pm6 min26 readings
6pm3 min23 readings
7pm2 min23 readings

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