Silver Dollar City non photo TR

[Hobbesx2]

I can't believe I'm actually going to right about this, I figured I wouldn't but I'm going to because it is such an awesome park.

 

Day 1.

 

We arrived in the park at precisely 3:01 on Thursday the 4, because of the awesome rule where if you come after 3:00 one day, you get the next free. We had absolutely no idea where anything was, as it's a slightly confusing park with so many shops and godly what- not. We turned to the right, hoping to go counter- clockwise. Our first ride of the day was Thunderation, and I rode it backwards and then in the very back. Best mine train ever, beating Adventure Express at Kings Island. It was walk on, and that was to be the theme for this day and most of the next. This was because of school and all the old people that roam the park but never go on any rides. Now with a map, we head over to the Grand Exposition and ride the best swinger and disco every. The swinger went really high off the ground and the disco was awesome, especially the ride op who was old just like every other one. We leave, not riding the kiddy coaster because I didn't want to ride that for my 75th credit. Milling around the park trying to find Powder Keg, we took a wrong turn and ended up in the Riverfront part of the park and hit another dead end, which meant more walking, meanwhile dodging the shooting water from the kid's section. Eventually, we found our way and hopped on the river raft. It was amazing, and the most wet one I've ever been on because they would put two rapid/mini drop thins in a row, causing the train to smash into the rapids and water would come gushing into the train. It was really cool, especially since my parents took most of the water for once. Milling around some more, we found Wildfire and it's rerouted line. We get on to an amazing B&M in the very front. It has a spectacular drop down the side of the mountain, a giant dive loop and some more B&M goodness. It's only problem was that it's a little short, so we rerode in the very back because every ride op would just let you reride, unlike Cedar Fair and Six Flags and pretty much every other park I've ever been to. There was some great airtime in the back, but the front was still the best seat. The guy sitting next to us regrettably informed us that Powder Keg was closed for the day. On the way out we passed the double queue thing between Wildfire and American Plunge, a wet log flume. Wanting to ride (I didn't care about wetness any more and still had time to waste), we hopped on. It was not amazing, especially the long black tunnel which did absolutely nothing. They should do some dark ride theming there or something. Exiting near Fire in the Hole, we decided to hop on and got on an interesting, fun experience that really made no sense but was still awesome. We rode that twice. By now we were pretty tired and it was about 5:45 and the park was about to close (It closes at 6 on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays) and a nice shop gave us some free french fries because they were just about to close and were going to throw them out anyway. We went back to our hotel and did some stuff which I will not go into details about.

 

Day 2.

 

We arrived there and semi- rushed to Powder Keg to find empty lines. We rode 4 different sections of the train (front, back, forward middle, and back middle- front and back were tied for the best). It was the best ride in the park with great theming and layout and despite it's pretty small size, had an amazing launch and airtime. Exiting near Fire in the Hole again, we rode it one more time after buying some alligator, ostrich and kangaroo jerky. It was actually wet this time for some reason (there's a little splash thing at the end). Getting off, we went to Tom and Huck's play area and went over to the Grand Exposition and got a rough and annoying kiddie coaster credit. By now I had gone on every rollercoaster and my credit count was at 78, and it still is now. We left and went to the Riverfront kiddie place for my brother and sister which was really well done and went on Wildfire again, but by now there were slightly longer lines because it was a Friday after school was out, so no more rerides. Then we went to Marvel Cave, and amazing gigantic series of caverns. Then we took the incline train out of the cave after an hour long tour with amazing scenery. I highly recommend this to anyone visiting Silver Dollar City. We went on Powder Keg again which had a ten minute wait which was the longest of the entire trip. Now we went to the Flooded mine and rode that twice, the first actually shooting and the second relaxing and watching the scenery. After we headed over to Grandfather's Mansion and an awesome curvy room that sends everything out of whack really badly and I couldn't seem to adjust to. Then we left the park for the last time.

 

Oh, and did I mention the amazing food??

 

Thanks for reading if you could be bothered, it was an amazing trip.

[Shavethewhales]

Huh, I never thought the park was that hard to get around, considering it's one big circle, but I guess if you haven't ever been and you don't have a map it would be an adventure.

 

That tunnel on the American Plunge used to have some awesome scenes in it, but when PK they rebuilt it, both for construction reasons and the fact that a new pathway will be going over the top of the tunnel in a few years.

I keep hoping they'll go back in and put some stuff in it, but like with PK's splash effect, some stuff gets forgotten.

 

I'm really glad you made it to Marvel Cave, most first time visitors don't find it or pass it up, and it's definitely worth it.

[Hobbesx2]

It is a big circle, and I figured my way around pretty quickly, but there's a sharp left turn before the kids riverfront that we missed because a building was blocking the path and we didn't see it.

 

Thanks for that history, I'm surprised they haven't put it back in yet.

[Nrthwnd]

Thanks for sharing your trip.

 

But did you eventually find your camera?

 

[Hobbesx2]

not yet, but it's in my house somewhere

 

i think