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HERSCHEND & DOLLY PARTON · PIGEON FORGE, TENNESSEE

Dollywood

“a smoky mountain love letter”

A Smoky Mountain love letter with a steam railroad running through it — cinnamon bread in the valley, bald eagles overhead, and a wooden coaster that launches because Dolly said why not.

Dollywood Express
Icon · The Village

dolly opened it in 1986, but the steam trains have run this hollow since 1961

THE ANIMATED COLLECTION · 20 PIECES

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The Village

1

Jukebox Junction

2
Lightning Rod
Coaster
A hot-rod wooden coaster with a launch. Still sounds made up.
Rockin' Roadway
Race track
Cruise the '50s in a tiny Cadillac.

Craftsman's Valley

3
Tennessee Tornado
Coaster
An Arrow looper that threads the mountain.
Blazing Fury
Dark ride
An indoor coaster where the town's been on fire since 1978.
Daredevil Falls
Log flume
A 60-foot drop past the logging camp.

Timber Canyon

4
Thunderhead
Coaster
A twister that never leaves its own lattice.
Mystery Mine
Coaster
A vertical drop through a haunted headframe.
Drop Line
Drop tower
A 230-foot look at the canyon, briefly.
Whistle Punk Chaser
Coaster
The junior lumberjack run.

Wilderness Pass

2
Wild Eagle
Coaster
America's first wing coaster, on a 21-story ridge.
FireChaser Express
Coaster
Forwards, then very much backwards.

Wildwood Grove

3
Big Bear Mountain
Coaster
The longest coaster in the park chases a legend.
Dragonflier
Coaster
A suspended glide over the grove.
The Mad Mockingbird
Spinner
Flyers you steer yourself — snap at your own risk.

Rivertown Junction

1
Smoky Mountain River Rampage
Raft ride
The classic mountain soak.

Country Fair

2
The Scrambler
Spinner
County-fair physics, unchanged.
The Waltzing Swinger
Spinner
A chair swing in three-quarter time.

Owens Farm

1
Barnstormer
Spinner
Giant swings over the barn, 81 feet up.
opened
1986 — rails since 1961
home
The Smokies' front porch
the icon
The Dollywood Express
my headliners
Lightning Rod · Wild Eagle · Thunderhead

Dollywood is what happens when a mountain town builds a park instead of the other way around: real craftsmen in the valley, real eagles overhead, a real steam whistle setting the schedule.

Ride Lightning Rod at rope drop before the line does what it always does, then let the Express haul you up the hollow while the cinnamon bread cools.

Every piece above is hand-drawn and animated — the Baldwin steams past the ridgeline with a butterfly on the breeze, the bolt cracks over the launch, and the eagle train soars wing-to-wing.