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Coal Cracker — wait times

Coal Cracker at Hersheypark.

Busiest around 1pm (about 35 min) and quietest around 10am (about 5 min).

Of the days recorded so far, Saturday averages the longest queue, at about 31 minutes.

Closed during 5% 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 90 minutes on 2026-08-23, the shortest 5 minutes on 2026-08-09.

Typical wait through the day

10am5 min8 readings
11am12 min10 readings
12pm22 min10 readings
1pm35 min9 readings
2pm29 min13 readings
3pm32 min18 readings
4pm24 min15 readings
5pm28 min19 readings
6pm18 min21 readings
7pm18 min9 readings

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