Located in Branson, Missouri, Silver Dollar City opened May 1, 1960. The Herschend family bought a 99-year lease on Marvel Cave, a limestone cavern that has been one of the Ozarks' longest-running attractions. They then developed an 1880s-style Ozark village attraction around the cave that over the years has developed into Silver Dollar City... as well as a national entertainment company that also includes Tennessee's Dollywood.
Silver Dollar City opens for the season in March, continuing through its Harvest Festival and An Old Time Christmas events at the end of the year.
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Fire In The Hole - Built in a new show building in the Fire District land in the park, Rocky Mountain Construction's first indoor roller coaster provides the track for this reimagining of the park's classic dark ride. Minimum height: 36 inches
For younger riders and their companions, Silver Dollar City also offers Grand Exposition Coaster, a Zamperla family coaster in The Grand Exposition. Minimum height: 36 inches
Marvel Cave: Located at the park's entrance. Tours of the limestone cave that inspired the park take about an hour. The tour includes about 700 steps and a potentially difficult climb to exit.
Hugo's Hill Street
The Grand Exposition
The Fire District
Midtown
Rivertown
Valley Road
Wilson's Farm
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Silver Dollar City is located just west of Branson, Missouri, at 399 Silver Dollar City Pkwy. Free parking is available, as well as paid parking closer to the entrance.
Silver Dollar City often opens its Main Street area early, for visitors who want to buy the breakfast buffet at Molly's Mill Restaurant. After the park's flag raising opening ceremony, head first to Powder Keg at rope drop to avoid its mid-day waits. If it's a hot day, Mystic River Falls often has a longer mid-day wait, but few fans wish to go on that drenching river rapids ride first thing in the morning.
Your next priority to avoid long waits is to double back for Time Traveler, then you can pick up rides at your convenience. Fire In The Hole will have long wait times in the morning, as it's the new thing in the park, buy that ride's relatively high capacity will mean shorter waits later in the day, when most visitors move on to other rides.
Even during the summer high season on Saturdays in June and July, wait times at Silver Dollar City rarely become unbearable. But the park does sell two line-skipping passes. The TrailBlazer costs $60 plus tax and allows up to eight rides, though it is limited to one time only on Fire In The Hole and Mystic River Falls. The Super TrailBlazer is $97 plus tax and allows for unlimited rides, with the exception of that one time only on Fire In The Hole and Mystic River Falls.
Silver Dollar City's most popular food item is its Cinnamon Bread, which you can watch being made and baked at Clara Belle's Cinnamon Bread in Rivertown.
