[Only free on long weekends] Which day of the run?

Is a long weekend uniformly busy from one end to the other? Pull out every day that falls inside a run of three days or more and the inside splits cleanly, which is where the remaining choice lives.

We counted the 51 days that fall inside a holiday run of three days or more. They average Normal, which reads above the Normal for the whole range. Of the 32 highest days in the year, 7 land inside these runs. The inside is still uneven, which is where the remaining choice lives.

The table lists the 40 days inside a run still ahead, quietest first. Each level is our own forecast for that day inside the run, not a count of visitors.

🏁 These runs are a thin slice of the year!

Days inside a run of three or more come to 51, or 7% of the 724 days we cover. They average Normal against Normal for the range — the same level.

The lowest day inside a run still reads Easy; the highest reads Packed. On average the runs are genuinely busier. But the inside spreads across 5 steps. It is not one block.

📅 The weekday still bites inside a run!?

By weekday, the lowest is Wednesday at Easy and the highest is Friday at Fairly busy. Read those with the counts: only 3 run days fall on Wednesday and 3 on Friday.

21 of these days are Monday to Friday, averaging Normal; 30 are Saturday or Sunday, averaging Normal. Even locked into a run, shifting toward the weekday side is the lever that works.

⛰️ How much of the year's peak sits in here?

Of the 32 highest days in the year, 7 fall inside these runs, or 22%. The runs themselves are only 7% of the days.

The peaks concentrate inside the runs. That does not make every run day a peak. 27 of them, 53%, still come in below the general level.

🗓️ If the dates are fixed, pick inside them!

Ahead of today, the lowest run day is Sep 19 (Sat) at Easy and the highest is Mar 21 (Sun) at Packed.

Within one run, the opening day and the closing day do not look alike. holidays and holiday runs follows both the position effect and how the holidays line up.

🏨 Room rates move with the runs too!

Of these 51 days, 36 push room rates up and 15 pull them down.

Park crowds and room rates do not have to move the same way on the same date. We explain why in park crowds and room rates.

🏁 [Only free on long weekends] 7 of the year's 32 highest days sit inside a run?

🏁 These runs are a thin slice of the year!

📅 The weekday still bites inside a run!?

⛰️ How much of the year's peak sits in here?

🗓️ If the dates are fixed, pick inside them!

🏨 Room rates move with the runs too!