Grizzly River Run Reliability & Wait Patterns

Disney California Adventure · Based on 24080 wait-time samples

Data updated October 12, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.70
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
20m
Typical (p50) wait
50m
Busy (p90) wait
70m
Worst-case (p99)
90m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

26m
Weekday average
24m
Weekend average
0.92×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Grizzly River Run flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

134
Recorded breakdowns
18m
Typical (median) outage
8h 25m
Longest outage (2026-09-09)
10.4
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1711m
2026-10-163h 17m
2026-10-151h 58m
2026-10-1428m
2026-10-147m
2026-10-1415m
2026-10-131h 46m
2026-10-136m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 69 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Share of running time the ride was down for an unplanned breakdown, by hour of the day (park-local time). Scheduled closures and refurbishments are not counted.

8
15%
9
6%
10
3%
11
3%
12
4%
13
6%
14
6%
15
6%
16
7%
17
8%
18
9%
19
8%
20
8%
21
5%
22
1%
23
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

Average standby wait (minutes). Green = lowest of day, red = highest.

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 6 13 26 36 42 42 47 48 39 35 25 13 6 –
Tue 5 5 12 25 30 33 35 37 34 42 44 47 22 14 –
Wed 5 6 16 34 40 40 45 44 42 40 34 23 14 11 –
Thu 5 5 12 20 25 31 35 38 38 38 33 28 17 11 –
Fri 5 5 7 18 29 30 35 34 30 27 25 16 8 5 –
Sat 5 5 13 31 36 41 41 40 38 36 30 21 12 7 –
Sun 5 5 9 16 27 28 31 33 33 35 31 16 7 5 –

Weather effect on waits

How the wait changed in each kind of weather, compared with this ride at the same hour on the same weekday within three weeks. Only differences marked “clear signal” are larger than day-to-day noise.

+0m
Clear · 579 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Cloudy · 251 ride-hours · within noise

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