Best Time to Ride Mark Twain Riverboat

Disneyland Park · Frontierland · median posted waits from 3,923 logged readings

Shortest line

9 AM

~10 min

Longest line

9 AM

~10 min

Typical wait

10 min

across open hours

Mark Twain Riverboat wait times by hour

Median posted wait for each hour of the day, Pacific Time.

Sunday is typically the lightest day (~10 min); Sunday is the heaviest (~10 min).

Ride at 9 AM — the median wait is 10 min versus 10 min at 9 AM, saving you roughly 0 minutes.
Avoid the 9 AM peak; posted waits stay elevated through the afternoon on most days.
Check the crowd forecast first — these are medians, and a heavy crowd day shifts every hour upward.

Based on our logged posted waits, 9 AM has the shortest median line at about 10 minutes. Sunday is typically the lightest day of the week (~10 min).

9 AM runs the longest, around 10 minutes on a typical day, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week (~10 min).

The median posted wait across open park hours is roughly 10 minutes, measured from 3,923 logged wait-time readings over the last few months.