March 29, 2025

Silver Dollar City - Project 2026 Construction

PROJECT 2026

We realized in our last update that we did not show the actual work walls for the project so here's a look at the walls on the Lumber Camp side of American Plunge walking towards Wildfire.


Looking over the fence, you can see the progress on the tunnel expansion for American Plunge.


It appears that they have begun work on the roof of the tunnel


Forms for the roof are going in.  You can see the rebar is already in place


Here is a little better view of that rebar


Elsewhere on this side, you can see they have brought in gravel to help level out the area around the American Plunge tunnel


Here is the work wall on the other side of American Plunge leading down to Wildfire.


It does run all the way down to the back of house gate near the entrance to the ride


While the other side of the pathway has been completely cleared, there are still some inventions on the ride side of the pathway.


Crazy to think that there will be a major ride on the left starting next season.


Now looking over that fence you can see even more clearing has happened since our last visit.


Besides the clearing, there has been leveling happening as well.  There in the back you can see the cave that the lift for American Plunge emerges from.


Speaking of American Plunge, the only outdoor part of the ride is the whirlpool scene.  This happens between the now longer tunnel and the lift hill cave.


This is really the only unused flume from Jim Owen's float trip that is left.  The whirl pool scene is just over that rock formation


We had several people ask for a better view of the back of Lumber Camp Falls so here's the view from the American Plunge side

and here it is from the Powder Keg side

This fence is for the American Plunge whirlpool scene

Looking towards the massive land clearing

Progress on the land clearing.  You can see they have started to level out the area

The boards over there is the tunnel expansion

Leveling out the area

The built a safety fence on the existing tunnel

Taking a look at the growing land clearing in the woods between Wildfire and PowderKeg

The construction site now has a dedicated road

This is looking to be a rather large ride with how the footprint keeps growing

The cleared area has more than doubled in two weeks

The construction road.  Not sure why it needed a chain and sign saying no trespassing.  Must be fore the deer and other wildlife.  We'll be back towards the end of April