I have gone with my kids every October for the pas...

I have gone with my kids every October for the past 5 years during the daytime "ValleyScare" weekends. Sure, the water rides are shut down, but if your goal is to ride the rides and NOT wait in line, this is the time to go. It's also not "drink a gallon of water an hour or you'll be carried away with heat stroke" hot out anymore. In 5 years, we have waited for no more than 1 cycle of a ride to get on anything in the park. It's not waiting in line for an hour to be on a roller coaster for 2 minutes. Last time we went, we rode all the roller coasters front, back, and center in a row with no more than one car's worth of wait time.

Are the concession prices crazy? Sure they are. What amusement park doesn't have stupidly overpriced drinks and food.