Wind speed vs. ride operations

What is the highest wind speed that these rides can operate with...?

The Sky Rides

The Windseeker

Millennium Force

Steel Vengeance

I see, right now, the wind speed up there is 16 mph and the sky rides are not running buckets.

The frontier inn can operate with wind speeds exceeding 10 mph.

I am not certain of the wind speeds required for ride operation to be suspended. However, I do know that the Sam Adams Summer Ale tap in the bar at the Grand Pavilion can operate while winds are gusting over 35mph off the lake.

CoasterHawk:

I see, right now, the wind speed up there is 16 mph and the sky rides are not running buckets.

Sky Rides? There is more than one Sky Ride at CP?

I was at CP today with 20+ mph winds

raptor and gatekeeper were closed because of wind.

so was flyers, windseeker and sky ride

MF and SV were running.

This question has been asked many times over the years. It's hard to answer because in most cases the ride systems are programmed to automatically stop at certain wind speeds and direction. Every ride is impacted differently.

Sky Ride and Windseeker go down first, usually followed by Raptor and GateKeeper. Millennium Force and Magnum will go down at about the 40mph mark, but again it also depends on direction, not just speed.

Bluestreaker:

Sky Rides? There is more than one Sky Ride at CP?

Not anymore there's not. RIP Frontier Lift

The Frontier Lift is not there anymore???

as many times as I have visited CP, the only reason Gatekeeper has ever been closed down to (excluding maintenance) Is fireworks. apparently some genius decided to set some off in the parking lot.

I totally understand it’s for safety reasons and I am not trying to disregard that in anyway possible, but what I have never understood is aside from sky ride, giant wheel, windseeker, and the perhaps occasional power tower; (ride cables), why the rides under 200 feet would close for wind. Does the wind factor have something to do with the ride vehicles on those rides by chance?

Ever seen Raptor come to an absolute crawl going into the MCBR on a windy day? It has a substantial impact on certain rides well below the 200' height, just depending on wind speed and direction.

Exactly that. You don't have to be a tall ride to be susceptible to wind if it smacks head first into a train just right. I once watched a Miller kiddie coaster valley from a gust of wind, while loaded with adults, and it couldn't have been any taller than 20'.