January 2, 2025

Silver Dollar City - Park Update

A new billboard has appeared on the backside of Fire in the Hole's gravity building advertising the new resort that will be opening in 2026.

Lots of progress is happening where the new Plaza (park expansion connecting Grand Expo to the Fire District) will be located for the 2025 season

A new access road for M&C has been constructed to the right of the Fire in the Hole gravity building.  I would imagine that a new "parade gate" will be located here and that is where the Christmas Parade will launch from starting next season

This is the backside of Red Gold Heritage Hall.  It will be interesting to see how much BOH room will be left here along this wall.

We are looking forward to seeing what all they do with this area, which will become each festival's main hub of activity during the season.  An exciting evolution in the history of SDC

While this lamp might not seem like much, this is a very nice addition to help out the citizens working Time Traveler.  This light flashes when it is time for the next group of riders to ascend to the loading deck.  Before this addition, the grouper had to listen for the chimes, but when it really busy those can be easy to miss with all of the noise of talking gueses.




 

Silver Dollar City

 


First park of 2025 is Silver Dollar City!!!

Wildfire was open first so we went there and had a couple great laps

Outlaw Run was next and it was hauling today

Barn Swing was only running one arm, but it was still a walk on

Engine 14 was doing the pulling today.  She's so pretty

Thanks again to the park for being open an extra week this year - that allowed some great night rides.
You know we took advantage of PowderKeg

Time Traveler in the dark is something special too
(and yes we totally took several laps on the GOAT Outlaw Run in the dark)

By the way, Happy 2025.  We are looking forward to a great new year of riding

A little sadness now - the last snowball of the season

Thank you SDC for a great season.  We will see you in March