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Lightning Rod ® wait time

Name: Lightning Rod ® wait time (Dollywood)
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at Dollywood - live posted wait, refreshed every few minutes

Posted wait now

45 min

status: open

as of 15:00 UTC, October 13, 2026 (auto-refreshes with JavaScript on)

Lightning Rod ® at Dollywood is open with a posted wait of 45 min as of 15:00 UTC, October 13, 2026.
Right now 3 of the park's other 35 open rides post a longer wait.
Tracked by this site for 46 days, sampled every 10 minutes while the park reports.

Live wait times powered by Queue-Times.com.

Average posted wait by hour (New York local time), from 46 days of our tracking.

In our tracking so far, the shortest posted waits for this ride have come around 8 a.m. local time (average 0 minutes).

Other waits at Dollywood right now

NightFlight Expedition · Big Bear Mountain · Dragonflier · Mystery Mine ® · Thunderhead ® · Tennessee Tornado

Full board: Dollywood wait times. Posted waits are the park's own estimates - see how wait times work.