Rides not running that day

Do they have anywhere on the CP site that would show what rides would not be in operation today?
Not due to weather but would be down all day?

I don't believe so, much to the chagrin of many.

If this has already been discussed, I apologize but I couldn't find it anywhere. Any time so far this season that I've looked at the webcams or the coaster queue website, I haven't seen maxair run once. Is it down or am I just catching it at the wrong time?

Soon I am coming for the first time in a while and I just got the Cedar Point app for my phone. It says it will show wait times for rides, but only when you are in the park. I would imagine to show wait times it would also have to show which rides are down, but I have never seen it.

It does show what rides are down currently when in park but doesn’t indicate for how long.

Caution for those on IOS. The app requires location services to be set to “always” for ride times and drains my battery at a very rapid rate, even if I force close the app. Thus I have to toggle that in settings before and after each use. I have heard the Android app does much better with putting the GPS in a low power state.

Thanks for the heads up about the app hogging the battery. I just went into location for my Samsung and a few apps say battery usage low but the Cedar Point app says high usage and I am not doing anything with the app. I may have to put the app to sleep or uninstall it. I really do not like it when an app overuses system resources unnecessarily. I had to uninstall Gas Buddy.

I wish CP could get the interactive signage that KI Has. I really like them. They show the ride times and can give directions.

Years ago,the CP website at the bottom had a category 'today in the park' that indicated what rides would not be in operation that day. I would look at that to decide if I was going.

Also,at the previous ticket booths(prior to Gatekeeper),there would be signage indicating what won't be operating.

Exactly, Cedar Point doesn’t want you to decide not to go because a particular ride is down. They’d rather you be oblivious and disappointed. Chances are you drove quite a ways to get there and you’ll probably just suck it up and enter the park anyway. But to be fair, it’s rare for a ride to be down for the entirety of a day, and when it is, its unexpected. However, if it’s known in advance (before the park opens for the day) there’s really no excuse to not make it known on the website.

Nonsense. When rides are down, it's usually quite temporary, lasting a few hours, if that. And when a ride has been down for an extended time, they've communicated that via the blog and social media.

Front Seat Rider said:

Thanks for the heads up about the app hogging the battery. I just went into location for my Samsung and a few apps say battery usage low but the Cedar Point app says high usage and I am not doing anything with the app. I may have to put the app to sleep or uninstall it. I really do not like it when an app overuses system resources unnecessarily. I had to uninstall Gas Buddy.

This site seems to reflect the same information as the app does, won't chew up battery and doesn't require you to be in the park:

https://queue-times.com/parks/50/queue_times

I'm planning to go next week and have been playing with the app (faking location so it thinks I'm there). It can be hit or miss as to whether it updates info or not. It seems to only update when I kill the app and reopen it. The queue-times site seems to work better, though it's missing some of the frills (distance from you to any ride etc, but you can just use the app for that).

That said - from what I can tell, they haven't updated the status for GateKeeper or Iron Dragon since last October, hence why they both have been showing "closed" when in fact they have been running. Unfortunately the app/status info is only as good as the people providing the data!

The app hasn’t even been close at all to accurate ride wait times or what is down this week.

If it’s mirroring bad info, that’s all you’re getting.

When I was in DollyWood a couple weeks ago, their ride wait times were off as well. You can see ride wait times on their app regardless if you are in the park or not.

^^Agreed.. on opening weekend the app was showing many rides as "No wait" even though they weren't operating, and also showed Millennium Force with no wait, even though it had a solid hour-long wait. I'm hoping it gets to be more accurate as the season goes along. It did at least get the SV wait correct, posting a 4-hour wait. Haha.

I don't know exactly who updates the ride wait times or if the ride is closed. But, whenever a ride goes down for mechanical reasons or weather, whoever is in charge of the ride is responsible for contacting the operations communication center to let them know the ride is currently shut down. Also, periodically throughout the day, leadership is responsible for contacting the operations comm center to give them the wait time if there is a noticeable fluctuation from the previous hour. Perhaps this just isn't being called in as much as it should be.