Silver Dollar City
Located at 399 Indian Point Road, Branson, Missouri
Celebrating 52 years in 2012! The Herschend Family opened Silver Dollar City on May 1, 1960.
This season is a huge celebration of new attractions, new shows and new experiences at all of the Herschend Family properties in Branson – Silver Dollar City, Showboat Branson Belle & White Water. This season promises to be SDC's biggest Festival and Show year ever! You'll want to experience all that's new in 2012, especially since 2011 was the park's biggest expansion ever.
One of America's most popular vacation destinations, the 1880's-theme Silver Dollar City amusement park in 2012 is bigger than ever, with thrilling rides, musical shows, guest stars, 60 unique shops and big special events throughout the season.
Here are some of the fantastic NEW additions to SDC in recent years:
Half Dollar Holler (new at Silver Dollar City in 2011) is the million-dollar play area for kids
Tom & Huck's RiverBlast (debuting in the Spring of 2010) is the popular $7 million ride that's America's Biggest Water Battle with a super-soaking water raft ride themed around the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Raft riders navigate the Mighty White River armed with water soakers – where the battle ensues raft-to-raft and raft-to-shore. Sharp shooters are also ashore to shoot more streams of water at passing rafts. Think you'll get wet? You bet!
GIANT Swing (a new ride in 2007) seats riders back-to-back on two giant pendulum arms and sends them swooping through the barn doors at 45 mph and immediately soaring 7 stories into the air, flying a full 250 degrees back and forth. It's a fantastic flying voyage into the Ozarks skies.
Other rides include Wildfire, a high-flying, multi-looping roller coaster that reaches speeds up to 66 miles per hour; PowderKeg, an explosive coaster that blows riders with compressed air from 0 to 53 mph in 2.8 seconds and reaches 64 mph with spiraling turns and negative g-force "floater" hills; the Grand Exposition with its 10 family rides to send folks flying, spinning and even hopping; and many, many others, including big, cooling, wet rides for the summer months.
Silver Dollar City offers BIG festivals and events in 2012! Choose from:
Family Spring Break Days – March 15 - 25, 2012
Young Christians Weekend – March 30 - April 1, 2012
Easter Weekend – April 5 - 7, 2012
World-Fest – April 12 - May 6, 2012
Bluegrass & BBQ – May 10 - June 3, 2012
National KidsFest – June 9 - July 22, 2012
Independence Day Celebration – July 4, 2012
Moonlight Madness – August 24 - August 5, 2012
Southern Gospel Picnic – August 25 - September 3, 2012
Country Music Weekend – September 8 - 9, 2012
National Harvest Festival – September 13 - October 27, 2012
An Old Time Christmas – November 3 - December 30, 2012
Silver Dollar City Specal Offers:
The solution to long lines...the Trailblazer Pass (introduced in 2009). It's a pass you can purchase for $27.50 (tax incl.) that lets you go to the FRONT of the line for up to 8 of your favorite rides...or to the front of the line of your favorite ride up to 8 times! Choose from RiverBlast, PowderKeg, WildFire, The Giant Swing, Thunderation, Fire-In-The-Hole, The Lost River and the American Plunge. The TrailBlazer Pass is available from March 15 through December 30, 2012. Purchase the pass at the Show Lover's Booth as you enter the park (across from Eva & Delilah's Bakery). A limited number of passes will be sold each day on a first-come/first-served basis.
NEW - Trailblazer Super Pass allows you UNLIMITED rides all day long aboard any of the attractions listed above for just $52.50 (tax included). Only 10 unlimited ride passes will be issued per day.
Arrive at the part after 3:00 pm, and the next day is FREE – only from March 15 - October 27, 2012
Purchase a Silver Dollar City Season Pass. The cost is less than the cost of 2 one-day tickets and offers unlimited visits!
Silver Dollar City (and White Water) offers retired and active military and disabled veterans a 2-day ticket for the price of a 1-day ticket at each park's front gate (details here)
Show Lover's Pass – for $10.23 (plus tax) per person, per show, you can arrive at the theater just as the curtain is about to go up, and you are guaranteed the best seats in the house, front and center.
NEW - Family Package Show Lover's Pass allows you to purchase 4 Show Lover's Passes for $27.91 (plus tax) or 6 Show Lover's Passes for $41.87 (plus tax). Offer ONLY available at the Show Lover's Booth. (details here)
Family Spring Break Days, March 15-25, 2012:
It's the season opener at Silver Dollar City. Put some spring in your family's step! Silver Dollar City's Family Spring Break Days are March 15-25, 2012 (open Thursdays-Sundays; 9:30 am - 6:00 pm). You can bet on thrilling rides, unique shops, tasty restaurants and select performances throughout the park. You can play in the ALL-NEW million-dollar kids play area Half Dollar Holler with the new hand-carved carousel & Tom & Huck's RiverBlast! There is special entertainment during Family Spring Break Days:
harmonizing sisters Pure Heart (gospel and country)
songs from the range with The Sons of the Silver Dollar
Doc Gizmo Science Theater – exciting and educational demonstrations
Young Christians Weekend, March 30 - April 1, 2012:
There's plenty in-store for the thousands of Christian youth who come from across the nation for this huge event – concerts, messages to feed the soul and awesome worship services, plus, of course, play all day on more than 30 rides and attractions at SDC!
Enjoy a weekend of thrilling rides, unique shops, tasty restaurants and power-packed performances throughout the park. Experience Tom & Huck's RiverBlast & the NEW Half Doller Holler, a huge play area for kids featuring treetop fun houses, climbing nets, sand tables, and back by popular demand, Silver Dollar City's Carousel! Special entertainment during Young Christians' Weekend includes:
The Museum
The Afters
Chris August
The Original Power Team
Action Impact Ministries
Christian Lingner
FindingBethel
Overcoming Affliction
Almost Taken
Caleb's Crossing
The Fallen
Saltbox
Sidewalk Prophets
Caleb Rowden
Young Christian Weekend Workshops include various topics from these speakers:
Joe White - from Kanakuk Kamp
Geoff Todd
Jason Lowery
Ashley Robbins
Shay Robbins
Keith Chancey
Don Ford
Tina Marie
World-Fest, April 12 - May 6, 2012:
World-Fest marks the official opening of Silver Dollar City's regular season on April 12, 2012. It's America's largest international festival, presenting incredible entertainment from around the globe. Performers from six continents present new and unique shows and productions – never before presented in the United States. Open Wednesdays through Sundays. Festival highlights include:
NEW! La Bella Musica in Red Gold Heritage Hall showcases tenor Aaron Caruso, who recently sold out at Carnegie Hall. The show also features soprano Melanie Goerlitz and World Accordian Champion, Cory Pesaturo.
NEW! Viva Italia in Red Gold's Courtyard. There's acrobatic flag throwers, living vines and statues, stilt walkers and a colorful costume parade.
NEW! The Mariachi Divas, a Grammy Award-winning all-female music ensemble with members from Mexico, Cuba, Samoa, Argentina, Colombia, Honduras and more.
NEW! Hawaiian Country Music Show starring four-time Grammy winner George Kahumoku plus native dancers and musicians
NEW! Peru's Yawar Chicchi Scissor Dancers, folk music and dance troupe
NEW! Kenyan Sarakasi Acrobats, world-renowned acrobats from Nairobi, Kenya
Returning favorites! Russian Academic Band - brass band music with Russian and American influences
Returning favorites! Irish Eyes Are Smiling, starring Ireland's premier harpist Dearbhail Finnegan
Returning favorites! Ecuador Manta - musicians from Ecuador presenting pan-flute melodies of the Andes
Returning favorites! Slovenian Polka Party, with 3 bands creating a huge dance party (May 4-6 only)
Returning favorites! Master Yodeler Kerry Christensen - Alpine and Western Yodeling Master
Plus, International Foods are featured daily at Tastes of the World
Bluegrass & BBQ, May 10 - June 3, 2012:
Celebrating Americana at its best, Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ festival highlights hundreds of award-winning bluegrass performances and a huge barbeque feast for the last 2 1/2 weeks of May. You won't want to miss a single performance of some of the best Bluegrass performers today. Open daily.
Impressive recognition: this festival was named Event of the Year by the IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association), the world's largest organization of bluegrass music professionals.
Bluegrass headliners include:
Rhonda Vincent & the Rage – Nine-time IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Female Vocalist of the Year
The Grascals – 2006 & 2007 IBMA Entertainers of the Year & 2011 SPBGMA (Society For The Preservation of Bluegrass Music) Instrumental Group of the Year
Larry Stephenson – five-time SPBGMA Male Vocalist of the Year
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Kruger Brothers
Many more! Including the Gibson Brothers, Balsam Range, Little Roy & Lizzy and Jerry Butler and the Blu-J's
Click here for specific performance dates for each group during the festival
National Bluegrass Competitions: 11th Annual KSMU Youth in Bluegrass Contest (May 26-27, 2012) & the 6th Annual National Single Mic Contest (May 19-20, 2012)
The All-American Barbeque Feast in the House of BBQ (located in the Red Gold Heritage Hall) – huge outdoor grills turn out everything from ribs to smoked chicken with hundreds of sauces offering regional flavors like smoky chipotle, sweet hickory, Memphis dry rubs, Carolina vinegars, smoky Texas-style and sweet KC-style
Reunion Hall's All-You-Can-Eat Rib Feast – from 3:00 pm till park closing during the Bluegrass & BBQ Festival. Reunion Hall is located on Main Street (next to Molly's Mill Restaurant) and is air-conditioned. Belly-up to the table for ribs, beef brisket, pulled pork, smoked chicken and a salad bar – and don't stop till you're stuffed!
NEW! Visiting BBQ Connoisseurs, Richard's Hawgwild BBQ out of Aurora, Missouri and Dickey's Barbecue Pit, based in Texas. Yum!
National KidsFest, June 9 - July 22, 2012: