Expedition Everest - Legend of the Forbidden Mountain wait times

What it is

A runaway-train roller coaster up and through a Himalayan mountain, where the track breaks and you race backwards into the dark before meeting the Yeti. Fast, with a big drop.

Thrill level: ●●●●● Thrilling (4/5) · drops · high speed · mostly in the dark · must be 44 in (112 cm) or taller

Opened: 7 April 2006 (20 years ago)

Best time to ride

Quietest: around 8am (typically ~5 min posted). Busiest: around 11am (~35 min). In the first 15 minutes after the park opens it typically posts ~5 min.

Typical means the median posted wait across every day in our log at that hour; crowd level, weather and breakdowns move it. For a specific date, the planner adjusts for that day’s forecast crowd.

Typical posted wait by hour

Bar = median; numbers on the right = typical range (middle half of days).

By day of the weekaverage 10am–6pm

Through the year2015–2021 history

Average posted wait by month from 2015–2021 records. Waits ran higher before the current Lightning Lane system, so read this for the seasonal shape — which months are busiest — not for today’s numbers; the hourly table above is current.

Posted vs real wait

Disney’s posted waits run high. For Expedition Everest - Legend of the Forbidden Mountain, a posted 60 minutes at 2pm has typically meant about 40 minutes in line, and at 8pm about 30 (from timed waits people recorded, 2015–2021 — before today’s Lightning Lane system, so treat it as an estimate). DisneyIQ shows both numbers on the live board.

Did you know?

The mountain is 199.5 feet tall.

It was reported at the time to be the most expensive roller coaster ever built.

Ride facts

About 4 minutes including boarding · Height requirement 44 in (112 cm) · Seating: train rows of 2 · Lightning Lane: Tier 2