Top 10 Rides to Complete Your Spring Break in Branson
Many of Branson visitors come to this favorite vacation destination to enjoy a fantastic spring break. Some of the visitors traveling with kids to this popular tourist spot include in their itinerary a visit to parks to enjoy a great time on awesome rides. Listed below are the top 10 rides that are sure to complete your spring break in Branson.
1. The Runaway Mountain Coaster at Branson Mountain Adventure Park offers a thrilling ride which is a great way to complete your spring break in Branson. The first mountain adventure to enjoy in Branson, The Runaway Mountain Coaster brings a unique ride experience as it travels to the innermost of the Ozark mountain. As you start your mountain adventure with the coaster, the coaster will race down the Ozark hillside and around trees with speed that will truly satisfy every ride enthusiast.
2. Named Best New Ride of 2013, the Outlaw Run is a double-barrel-rolling wood coaster which can truly complete your spring break in Branson. This wooden coaster was unveiled at Silver Dollar City in 2013 as the world’s first with the steepest drop of 81 degrees and the only one in the country that features 720-degree double barrel roll in an upside twist. With speeds reaching up to 68 miles an hour, Outlaw Run is the second fastest wooden coaster in the world.
3. Time Traveller is a new ride attraction at Silver Dollar City which also offers a fantastic way to complete your spring break in Branson. A Revolutionary Coaster Ahead of Our Time – Time Traveller will let you embark on the ride of a century as the World’s Fastest, Steepest & Tallest Spinning Coaster. This spinning coaster features a 95-foot tall vertical loop – and two launches that send riders to unprecedented speeds. Each car of Time Traveller can seat four passengers, with two facing forward and two facing backward.
4. The only metal coaster at Silver Dollar City, Wildfire not only provides a fantastic ride, but you’ll get to enjoy also spectacular views that surround the Ozark mountains. Taking a thrilling ride with this coaster will surely complete your spring break in Branson. This coaster reaches speeds up to 66 mph and incorporates five inversions including high-speed spirals, a cobra roll, a full loop and a corkscrew after its initial vertical 15 story drop. Regarding height, speed and twists and turns, Wildfire has been named the undisputed “king” of coaster rides.
5. Thunderation offers you a truly thrilling ride that will surely complete your spring break in Branson. A steel roller coaster at Silver Dollar City that opened in 1993, Thunderation is one of Arrow Dynamics’ largest and fastest mine train coasters, with a 3,000-foot-long course and a top speed of almost 50 miles per hour. This coaster makes excellent use of Silver Dollar City’s sloping terrain. This fascinating ride attraction is like a family coaster but still manages to pack quite a thrill for those daring ride enthusiasts.
6. The steel roller coaster, Powder Keg opened its doors in 2005. Now it provides a unique ride experience that can is sure to complete your spring break in Branson. When the Powder Keg was installed by Ride Entertainment Group, with their desire to save on construction costs, they replaced the elements of the former Buzz Saw Falls water coaster attraction. Attributes to the former water coaster ride attraction still appears in the thematic elements surrounding the queue line, such as an old Buzz Saw Falls car stuck in the roof of the first queue building, and a piece of old Buzz Saw track sticking out of the queue building’s roof.
7. Fire-in-the-Hole at Silver Dollar City is sure to complete your spring break in Branson as it will take you through the darkness of an Ozark night filled with mysterious sounds and mischievous deeds. As the mischievous Baldknobbers set the town ablaze, your only escape is the fiery bridge where danger awaits. This family favorite indoor roller coaster offers high-speed and thrilling surprises around every corner.
8. Grand Exposition Coaster is another fascinating ride that can make your spring break in Branson a complete one. The coaster provides a fantastic ride experience to young and old alike. This electromechanical rail coaster dips turns and flies 20 feet in the air along the 20-foot track at speeds up to 20mph. This steel roller coaster is believed to be a replacement of Runaway Ore Cart. It is a good opportunity for children to enjoy a unique ride that it brings.
9. The Magnificent Wave Carousel offers an enchanting and beautiful ride on a giant swing that sure gives you a complete spring break in Branson. The fascinating ride that you will experience with the carousel will send you swinging up and out on a 40-foot flight above the treetops for one of the most breathtaking rides at Silver Dollar City where guests sit in seats suspended from chains. The ride rises and rotates while moving in an undulating motion, and the seats swing outwards.
10. Taking a fantastic ride with the American Plunge will complete your spring break in Branson as it offers a thrilling boat ride around a man-made river with animatronics. The float trip includes a tumbling outhouse, whirlpools and a dark cave. Some sections of the original ride’s man-made river are still in use for the log flume and troughs from the float trip, and Silver Dollar City left the rest so that guests enjoy the beautiful scenery.
When you are planning to spend wonderful spring vacation in Branson, be sure to check out these top 10 rides to complete your spring break in this most visited tourist destination in the Midwest.
