Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail Reliability & Wait Patterns

Animal Kingdom · Africa · Based on 17106 wait-time samples

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

0.00
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Stable — waits stay close to the day's average.
5m
Typical (p50) wait
5m
Busy (p90) wait
5m
Worst-case (p99)
25m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

5m
Weekday average
5m
Weekend average
1.00×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

42
Recorded breakdowns
55m
Typical (median) outage
3h 3m
Longest outage (2026-08-06)
3.3
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-116m
2026-10-1012m
2026-10-0340m
2026-09-2319m
2026-09-211h 39m
2026-09-2027m
2026-09-201h 13m
2026-09-185m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 36 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
1%
9
0%
10
0%
11
1%
12
2%
13
5%
14
7%
15
8%
16
10%
17
7%
18
9%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

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Mon 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 – – – –
Tue 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 – – – –
Wed 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 – – – –
Thu 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 – – – –
Fri 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 – – – –
Sat 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 – – – –
Sun 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 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
Cloudy · 434 ride-hours · within noise
0m
Heavy Rain · 32 ride-hours · within noise
0m
Clear · 130 ride-hours · within noise

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