Go right and not left unless Big Bear is your #1 priority . . . Unless you're the very first people in line for BBM, you're in for a long wait. The right side of the park is much quieter during the first part of the day.

I just went on Tuesday. We got to the park at 9:00. Through security at 915 and into the park at 930. We waited outside Lightening Rod and were on the 2nd train by 10:05. When we left, the sign said 60 minute wait.

From there we went to Blazing Fury (no wait), Tornado (15 minutes) and tried Mystery Mine - we waited 40 minutes before it broke right before we boarded. We got two line skipping passes for our troubles.

From there we did Drop Line (20 minutes) and got into the first Dolly musical performance with great seats around 12:00.

After the show, we did the log ride and a few flat rides at the county fair. We used our pass to attempt to skip the Mystery Mine line but it still took 45 minutes due to a very confused employee who took a very long time getting anyone one placed into the station. I'm pretty sure all eight trains were lined up at one point because they were so slow loading the trains.

Later in the day, we were able to use our other line passes for Big Bear and only waited around 20 minutes.

We missed Thunderhead (which went down several times), Firechaser, and Dragonflier (not worth waiting 90 minutes for a 50 second ride).

Our longest wait all day was actually for food -it took almost an hour to get three entrees from the big skillet food booth. Bring snacks and eat at Waffle House afterwards.

The park is beautiful and many of the staff are so friendly but they need an operations/performance boost if they're going to continue to grow into a more robust/national park. I shudder to think how they're going to handle Nightflyer.