Top 10 Rides for an Awesome Spring Vacation

If you’re looking for some great rides while spending a wonderful vacation in Branson, you’re sure to find them as this favorite vacation destination in the Midwest offers tons of thrilling rides. Listed below are the top 10 rides that you should try to give you an awesome spring vacation in Branson.

1. The Runaway Mountain Coaster at Branson Mountain Adventure Park provides you a thrilling ride experience that is sure to give you an awesome spring vacation in Branson. The fantastic outdoor ride adventure that you can experience with the mountain coaster gives you the opportunity to see picturesque scenery and beautiful wildlife around the park. The first mountain coaster to open in Branson, The Runway is beautifully located on a steep hillside at the former Butcher Holly property along Highway 165.
   

2. Taking a fascinating horseback trail ride activity in Branson outdoors can give you an awesome spring vacation as it allows you to see the beauty of spring in the Ozarks. As you take a horseback trail ride along, you will get to pass the Trail Nobody Knows How Old, ride down in the holler and the shade of the woods on a real horse. The ride will pass through the rustic acres of the Ozarks on old, shade covered trails which date back as far as the 1800’s. Horseback riders are advised to wear closed toed shoes, as flip-flops and sandals are not allowed.

3. Branson Scenic Railway offers a fantastic ride experience that gives you the opportunity to see beautiful landscape of Branson and many other scenic trails that are inaccessible to cars. This train excursion tour offers an exciting ride experience making you enjoy an awesome spring vacation in Branson. This train tour takes an hour and 45 minutes to complete on a 40-mile round trip to mountainous areas and back to downtown Branson.

5. The wooden coaster Outlaw Run offers a thrilling ride at Silver Dollar City and is sure to give you an awesome spring vacation in Branson. This is the world’s first with the steepest drop of 81 degrees and the only one in the USA that features 720 degree double barrel roll in an upside down twist. This is also the second fastest wooden coaster in the world with speeds reaching up to 68 miles an hour. Outlaw Run is considered to be the most daring wood caster in the world.

6. Powder Keg is a steel roller coaster at Silver Dollar City that offers an exciting ride as you can enjoy in this coaster the longest ride experience in Branson. When Powder Keg was built by Ride Entertainment Group, it replaced the former Buzz Saw Falls water coaster attraction which help them save on construction costs. Other attributes to the former ride can be found 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. The 100-foot tall super swing Skycoaster is another ride attraction at the Track Family Fun Park that can give you an awesome spring vacation in Branson. This super swing combines elements of hang-gliding and skydiving. To start a thrilling ride with this giant swing, you will be harnessed and pulled up 100 feet in the air. This great ride can be experienced with one, two or three people at a time. Once you are pulled up from below you will feel a breathtaking 70-mph swinging adventure.

8. Taking a bumper ride at the Track Family Fun Park can also give you an awesome spring vacation in Branson. Bumper boats are a great way to enjoy thrilling rides on the water with great fun activity. Bumper boats or Supersoaker boats are equipped with water cannons that make this boat ride a unique water fun activity where bumping and soaking is key to strategic water battle. If you like to enjoy a bumping activity without soaking, try the bumper cars at Track 4.

9. A new attraction at Silver Dollar City in 2018, Time Traveller is a revolutionary coaster ahead of our time. This new coaster will let you embark on the ride of a century as the world’s fastest, steepest and tallest spinning coaster. This $26 million, record-breaking coaster features three inversions – the most ever on a spinning coaster. This spinning coaster includes a 95-foot tall vertical loop – and two launches that send riders to unprecedented speeds.

10. Wildfire is a metal coaster which offers the most exciting and exhilarating coaster rides in the world and an unparallel view of the surrounding Ozark mountains. The coaster has a top speed of 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. It has been the undisputed “king” of Silver Dollar City’s four coaster rides, in terms of height, speed and twists and turns.

So, if you want to have an awesome spring vacation in Branson, don’t miss to try these 10 great rides in this popular vacation destination.