Day 6 - Silver Dollar City
Day 6 - Silver Dollar City
Mats Hummel
Silver Dollar City; what a really nice and friendly park. Really cool coasters, Smooth B&M and a really surprice was the Fire in the hall was maybe the best. Thank you for the best food so far in any park.
Steve Gzesh
I didn't think another park could exude the same kind of charm that Dollywood has, but Silver Dollar City definitely has it (no coincidence they're both operated by the same company)! Loved, loved, loved the down-home atmosphere of the park and the rides were quite fun as well. And though the park may not have had the best coasters on the trip, it certainly had the best lunch!! This park absolutely warrants a return visit soon!
David & Susan Ellis
Silver Dollar City reminded us of Dollywood, so it was no surprise to find out they are owned by the same group. The ERS on Powder Keg, the launched coaster, was excellent, with the operators allowing us to film with the camcorders taped to our hands... should make for good footage for the forthcoming DVD! The lunch was amazing, probably the best park lunch we have ever had on a trip. I even won a mug in the fun quiz the staff ran for us. The park is hilly, so was a challenge in the heat, but there is plenty of wooded areas to shelter and admire the beautiful scenery. Top stuff!
Andy Costin
Silver Dollar City was one of the most beautiful parks I've ever seen, with a beautiful wooded hilly setting, and good theming. Powder Keg was awesome, especially in the front. Thunderation and Wildfire were also great. Lunch of the trip so far, and perhaps of any trip - a good choice of meat, fish, etc with salad, and loads of other choice! A definite re-visit is required for this park, a day is not enough.
Ole Bredesen-Vestby
Oh my, what a great park The S&S coaster for the ERS was great, so also the B&M. And the parks theming and atmosphere is some of the best I've ever seen. I'd love to come back to this park and spend more time here in the future. Thanks for a fantastic day.
Lorna & Adrian Dade
Great ERS on Power Keg, Fire in the hole was excellent well themed, The Flooded Mine was a fun ride, Adrian still beat me, What's new. Great shops (need more money) another great day on a great holiday.
Darren and Mary
Silver Dollar City was a wonderful park, we found all the staff to be interested in the clubs visit and they were helpful. Lunch was great and the hospitality during this was good. Darren enjoyed all the rides but especially Wildfire. A lovely themed interesting park where we could have spent a much longer time
Malcolm Marr
What a beautiful park. I loved Dollywood in 2006 but wasn't a fan of the layout. This park is just as nice but a little easier to get around (although some parts could benefit from additional signage to assist still). The three main steel rides are all great rides; you know this park is itching for a wooden ride though. Special thanks to the park for organising an amazing lunch; I think most of us were too impressed to go fill our plates a second time. Park of the trip for me so far!
Jeppe Nygaard
An absolutely lovely park, just fantastic !! Together with Dollywood it might be the most beautiful in the US.
The scenery, and detail is stunning. I liked Power Keg, a special and unique ride, and Wild Fire was great, another great B&M. The staff was really nice and friendly and gives good atmosphere to the park.
( a few ride ops, especially on the Mine Train, where a bit over strict with their rules again )
Thanks to the park for be a great host, giving us the best mael of the trip untill now, and a fun quizz too.
Now it is time to head further north.
Bob Clark
A great park very reminiscent of Dollywood both in feel and in terms of the large amount of walking up and down hills. Wild Fire was a very nice B&M looper. Powder Keg although very good was slightly dissappointing after all the hype. The Lunch was superb - best ever in a park - especially the Catfish and Okra.
Cal Jones
My favourite park so far! This is a proper theme park in a really lovely setting, and has some great coasters to boot. Powder Keg was really fun and we all enjoyed Wildfire as well. The highlights were the amazing buffet lunch (I'm always happy to see some vegetables - it's hard to eat well in most parks) and the cave tour. I'd definitely like to come back.
Gordon Taylor
Been waiting years to get here and well well worth the w8 esp for (don't laugh) Fire in The Hole! Magic!! Got a round of applause, not easy on a dark ride. All coasters here are great but its the staff, food, atmos and general park beauty that makes it a cut above the rest. These "smaller" parks are turning out to be the favourites. Love being able to leave my camera fanny pack etc and not have to worry about it. Thank you locals!
Andy Dewar
I really enjoyed the visit to Silver Dollar City, the park was really pretty with a nice atmosphere, with all the staff in costume and a great cultural feel about the place. Their mine train took me by suprise, Wildfire was an excellent ride and Powder Keg really stood out to me being like a hyped up, zoomy modern mine train affair, which was really fun.
Matthias Pies
Was fuer ein genialer Park. Die ERS on Powder Keg war grandios und auch Wildfire war genial. Silver Dollar City ich komme garantiert wieder.
Jonas Aastroem
Silver Dollar City was probably the best themed park so far imo. Whereas both Wildfire and Powder Keg with its quite original setup both were great rides, the fantastic food, great staff and seamless themeing was what made this the most pleasant visit so far. The staff is very friendly and outreaching, and the themeing is so down to detail that it put other larger parks to shame.
Chris Simon
Very similar park to Dollywood, wonderfully landscaped and all staff in character/period costume. Powder Keg was fun, with 3 hills of gorgeous floatiness. Fire in the Holean unusual but spectacular dark ride/coaster/wet ride combo. And a great B&M in the shape of Wildfire. Amazing lunch supplied by the park - THANK YOU!
Paul Orsmond
Silver Dollar City was a beautiful park with amazing themeing and scenery, Powder Keg was superb, and Wildfire was a wonderful B&M coaster filled with a surprising amount of airtime on the drop. Lunch was excellent, and the cave tour was really something special, thanks to everyone at the park for the great hospitality, I would love to come back here for a full day soon.
Owen & Alan Rees.
All the Theming was so realistic it was almost as though you had travelled back in time. The Rapids had really big drops, and got soaked. The coasters were very good.
Yvonne Janik
Silver Dollar City is perhaps the most beautiful of all US parks. I love every moment of Powder Keg, and the food and service all over the park are great too. Thanks, Lisa and team for an excellent visit.
Martin Valt
Too many positive points to even begin to list. Powder Keg is very good. Not perhaps as good as certain people have suggested, but if I owned a park a similar ride would be high on my shopping list. Wildfire is fantastic however, a standard (as opposed to floorless) sit down B&M multi-looper with an unusual layout in a stunning location. Definitely my favourite ride in the park. Thank you to everyone involved for their amazing hospitality, including probably the best group meal ever on a club trip. And it turned out that I didn't deserve the free t-shirt after all! 1199 - c'est la vie. Not many negatives at all. It seems that rolled-up t-shirt sleeves are a threat to life and limb on mines trains, whilst 8-years olds recording the very same ride on their cell phones is not regarded as a problem at all. Go figure. Must be an Ozark thing. We simply didn't have enough time here. I felt like I was racing through the park at Richard Bannister speed, which for a first visit to such a fantastic place was definitely not good.
Kim Varde Lassen
Fantastic park. Even though it was impossible to find your way around (at least for me) the western theming just appeals to you when its this well done. Delicious lunch, best on the trip, won a cool hat for knowing all about blowing stuff up. Powder Keg was unique, but maybe a little too unique to me. Lift hill in middle was weird element. Wildfire took the price as no 1 coaster in the park for me. What a first drop!! It was up there with Superman in Fiesta Texas.
Only bad comment was that ride operations could be loosened up a bit. Saw kids getting thrown out of empty seats on Thunderation just beacuse they had already ridden.
Steve Fagin
This scenic park was like a cross between its sister park, Dollywood, and Knoebels, with its schmaltzy theming, incredibly sweet, good-humoured and indulgent staff, and nicely-themed rides set in astounding views of the surrounding countryside. The one-hour trip into the caves was an unexpected bonus, and offered a much more authentic and textured experience than I'd expected out of an ad-hoc detour from the rides. The park was notably generous in its hospitality, providing an ERS and an unusually delicious lunch. Their PR Director really got into the spirit of the event, with she and her staff making us feel very welcome.
Lee Bennett
What a great park with some great coasters, wildfire was running surperb, great airtime on the first drop ! Also had lunch at the park which turned into a 4 course meal the best ever !!
Paul Greenwood
I love this park! What a beautiful place... The view from Powder Keg & Wildfire across the hillside is breathtaking. Wildfire by the way was completely insane in the back seat!! I couldn't get enough of this park and will DEFINATELY plan to return. Thanks have to go to the park for their hospitality and the incredible lunch. I've never had a 3-course roast dinner at a theme park before!! (And it all tasted home-made too...) I hope to see you again real soon...
andycoasterboy
What a great park - the ERS on Powder Keg was great fun as too was Wildfire. The views from the rides are incredible and the overall layout of the park meanders through tree lined pathways. The whole park is littered with things to watch, do, eat, play and make. The hospitality was first class and lunch was the best I have ever had in a park - so a huge thanks to all the staff and ride ops in the park. I even bought some Huckleberry Preserve!! Long journey now to the next hotel where I am hoping to have a few alchoholic beverages or three.
Chris Hull
Silver Dollar City proved to be the biggest surprise of the trip so far for me. I don't tend to do too much research before the trip so finding out that Dollywood is its sister park at lunch was no surprise. SDC is awesomely themed with the staff being outstandingly hospitable and friendly. We were made extremely welcome and provided with a fun and knowledgle ERS on Powder Keg. The park's other main coaster Wildfire is a great non-standard B&M set in a fantastic setting. The lunch provided by the park must go down as being the best had in any park so far. Fantastic home cooking and really friendly service. Huge thanks to the ride ops and the park staff for making our visit such a memorable one!
Mette Doving
Could have gone around in this park for ages and found something new all the time. Nice theming in a great park. Loved the morning ERS on the Powder Keg. Thanks for a really great lunch, and for the book that I got.
Nina Kleppe
The morning started off with an ERS on Powder Keg, a great S&S launch coaster. Did the rest of the coaster and some of the other rides. Good lunch. Very nice park, should have had more time to just walk around looking here.
Dirk Lather
Man koennte meinen, man ist in Dollywood, der sich als Schwesterpark herausstellte. Entweder war ich heute eh schon groggy, oder es lag am Park. Das Gelaende ist derart unuebersichtlich und bergig, dass ich schon nach kurzer Zeit ziemlich genervt und fertig war. ABER... die Rides haben es in sich und machen das wieder gut. Der S&S Launch - Coaster war fuer mich absolut neu und ueberrascte mit einer sehr intensiven Fahrt. Der Sitzkomfort ist allerdings fuer die Fuesse, kommen hier die selben Sitze wie bei den S&S Swingern zum Einsatz.'
Den Platz der bisher schoensten Aussicht auf einem Lifthill nimmt der grosse B&M "Wildfire" ein. Was man nach dem Auffahrt zu sehen bekommt ist einfach traumhaft und man muss sich entscheiden, ob man nun die Landschaft oder die Fahrt geniessen soll. Klasse Teil!. Kurz nach dem liebevoll zubereitetem Mittagessen ging es dann auch schon wieder in den Bus, von dem aus ich mal nett in die Runde gruesse, an alle die mich so kennen. Ich schlaf jetzt wieder.
Christof Muehlan
The food they gave us for lunch at Silver Dollar City was so good that I even forgot that I did not win anything in the coaster-quiz. Wait! I did not win anything in the coaster-quiz?! What am I going to wear tomorrow?
Stuart Cosgrove
Silver Dollar City had a wonderful launched S&S in Powder Keg. Wildfire was also good making clever use of the landscape. Thunderation was a great minetrain espacially when ridden backwards. Follow this with a lovely lunch and you have a perfect coaster day. Thanks to all concerned.
Eirik Erstad
Probably the most beautiful park in the US. The people of Missouri are lucky to have such a nice park in their state. Can't wait to go back! Thanks for the best park lunch ever!
