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Lightning Rod ® — wait times

Lightning Rod ® at Dollywood. Closed right now.

Busiest around 1pm (about 19 min) and quietest around 10am (about 5 min).

Of the days recorded so far, Saturday averages the longest queue, at about 23 minutes.

Closed during 2% 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 115 minutes on 2026-10-24, the shortest 0 minutes on 2026-08-12.

Typical wait through the day

10am5 min23 readings
11am11 min37 readings
12pm17 min35 readings
1pm19 min37 readings
2pm15 min54 readings
3pm17 min56 readings
4pm13 min59 readings
5pm14 min58 readings
6pm11 min58 readings
7pm8 min53 readings
8pm7 min28 readings
9pm5 min20 readings

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