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I'd say odds are I'll hop in one when I visit the park. Don't have the opportunity to sit in a monster truck too often. If I was only there 1 day I'd skip it for sure.

Was in Sevierville today and had a couple extra hours. Got 4xLR,TT, 2xWE, Thunderhead, FC, and MM and was back in my car in under 2 hrs. Wildwood Grove April 11 April 11 Good day for a few quick rides on Lightning Rod

Looks like I'm in the minority. I wouldn't mind the B&M Hyper wrapped around park of the park. All sound great and I'm for anything new.

Do you guys like Wild Eagle? Not a ton of difference with that and a suspended coaster. Feet are dangling on both with nothing under you. Give it a go. Afterburn is a good one. Woodstock Express is a great little kids coaster. I rode it last visit for sure. I love Thunderhead like you. Hurler is ok. Seems most of the hate is the trim break that was installed later on. Try Intimidator next time. After you conquer that, Fury is just the big boy version. Same seats, same type of coaster, just a little more speed and height.

Mindbender seemed a bit different today. It barely made it up the lift hill and came to an almost complete stop. The second half seemed way more rowdy and I was being thrown against my buddy on some of the turns. It was pretty wild. First trip on GASM this year. Not an every trip ride for me but good on occasion. First ride on Acrophobia. That's a pretty cool ride and better than the Dollywood and Carowinds drop towers. Crowded at the park. Hour+ wait on everything after 2-ish it seemed. Glad we got there early. Finally waited for a front row seat on Goliath. Enjoyed that. Usually just take whatever is open.

Opens May 10. Early Season Pass holders have a preview May 9th.

I will second the parking lot comments. We rolled up about 8:45 last week and they didn't open gates til 9:45. We were about 10 cars from the front. It was a LONG line behind us when they opened gates. I was surprised it wasn't causing a problem on the main road. Fastlane Plus can be huge if it's crowded. Fury was an hour wait and I did 4 rides in about 20 minutes as the park was closing. My last ride on CS was a 15 minute wait and the kids sitting around me had waited 3 hours. I had 3 walkons in a row on Intimidator with a 60 mine line. Copperhead will be prob be down much of the day. Go there first. Then use the app/queue websites to see when it's back up during the day and proceed quickly when you see Operational or a wait time.

Queue websites indicate Mystery Mine is running right now with a 60 min wait. Nice.

Had a blast at the park today. Got 3 rides of CS. Enjoyed it. Nice little ride. A few good hills and the slower loops are fun. I haven't been here in 20 years. Enjoyed being back and the new coasters. Fury is fun, especially front row. Fast Pass is fun, too. Nighthawk just seemed uncomfortable to me. Gave it a couple tries but just didn't like it. Afterburn was fun. We'll be back end of summer for another fun day. Wish CS had been up more. About 8pm I got on CS after a 10-15 min fast pass wait. The kids I was riding with had been waiting 3 hours to get on. They loved the ride.

Ride queue are showing 60+ wait for Lightning Rod today. I was hoping some random March Wednesday might be dead. Light work day here and would be great to slip out and enjoy the sun on LR.

I had a great day at Dollywood. Lightning Rod was running 2 trains most of the day. It went down for about 15 minutes while I was in line later in the day, but came back up with both trains. Loved Lightning Rod and it lived up to the hype. Thunderhead surprised me. Loved that ride. Ride lines weren't too bad except for LR and Firechaser. Other coasters were 5-20 minutes for the most part. Pretty cool seeing them run multiple trains on Firechaser. Mystery Mine closed for the day. Didn't sound like it was going to open tomorrow either. They were running sandbags on Dragonflier today as well. Cool seeing that while riding Thunderhead.

I think I might visit Saturday and get a season pass. Always had season passes to SDC growing up. Went to Dollywood once in 95. Haven't been back since and I live near Knoxville. Hopefully I can knock out most of the coasters early and sneak out before it gets too bad. I also hope sneaking over there early morning for a few rides becomes a summer habit.

Me too. I tried to work that with the wife this morning with no luck. Hopefully rain stays away next weekend. Auctioned rides and ceremony starting in a few minutes.

I went back for a few hours this morning. Rode both trains on TC before 10:30. Walked onto Batman, Superman, Battle for Metropolis, and Blue Hawk. 10 min wait for Monster Mansion. Got in a 20-30 min line for Goliath around 12:45 and then headed back home. I would agree with previous comments that operations were not great this weekend. I didn't let it ruin my time. Staff was nice and trying. My frustration was just easily getting some water somewhere for my bottle. Need a couple more open drink stall things like the one at the mine train. It's also strange that only 1 car is running on most things. Lines were long on Saturday afternoon. Still had a blast. Wish I could have stayed longer today. Can't wait to return sometime soon.

Busy today. Maybe it's the fact they only seemed to run 1 train on everything but DDD and Batman. Other than that, really enjoyed today. First amusement park in 22 years and I had a blast. The RMC lived up to the hype. DDD lift is crazy. Goliath was fun. Superman was fun. What a day.

Just wanted to thank coasterbill for the Choice deal. Hadn't seen it before I saw him mention it. At a Choice tonight at Six Flags. Will do a couple in Charlotte in 2 weeks. Banking a room or two for later in the season sounds good to me.

Saturday is bring a friend for free with membership. Do they have to enter with you or can they show up later in the day and meet you at the gate?

Canyon Blaster at Adventuredome. It edged out it's only competition, the Manhattan Express down the street at NYNY. No other options thus far this month.

Anyone want to share preferred parking details? Close to the gate? Worth reserving? In and out within the preferred lot during the day? Thanks. Going down this weekend.

They said Pandemonium is scheduled to open May 23rd. Don't think they said anything about the area outside of that.

Daily ticket + Fast Lane Plus for $59.99 this weekend on their website.

Daily ticket + Fast Lane Plus for $69.99 this weekend on their site.

Thanks for the responses. Looks like Saturdays in June have to be booked through CP. So, we did Sat with all our passes through CP. The other 3 nights were through travelocity and saved us some money. Can't wait to visit. My last visit was just after Mean Streak opened in 91.

Quick question: Looking at the Express Hotel. If I book through Orbitz, can I add on tickets when I get there? One article had the wildcard passes for $58 at check. Orbitz + passes at checkin saves me a decent amount over booking it all through CP. Just not sure if this is possible. Thanks. I'm guessing same would go for the Fast Lane passes and bundles at checkin?

I'm hoping March 16-17 has decent weather. Looking to drive down from East TN. Looks like this would be a good time to visit between opening weekend and the school music competitions starting the following week. First trip to an amusement park in 20+ years. Really excited to visit SFOG again and ride some new coasters.