{"id":254,"date":"2019-08-15T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T20:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2020-01-07T00:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:39:50","slug":"silver-dollar-city-is-making-a-splash-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/silver-dollar-city-is-making-a-splash-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Dollar City is making a splash in 2020!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Silver Dollar City has announced that they are investing 27 million dollars on two new attractions for the 2020 season.  These are Mystic River Falls, a white water rapids ride that claims to be the tallest in the western hemisphere, and Rivertown Smokehouse, a new eatery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5._MRF_LOGO_HI-QUALITY.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5._MRF_LOGO_HI-QUALITY.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5._MRF_LOGO_HI-QUALITY-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5._MRF_LOGO_HI-QUALITY-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/5._MRF_LOGO_HI-QUALITY-624x354.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Image courtesy of Silver Dollar City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Mystic River Falls is a co-development between Silver Dollar City and R.E.S.  The rapids ride takes the place of Lost River of the Ozarks and will become the anchor of a new section of the park dubbed Rivertown.  The ride will feature 2,100 feet of river channel, 18 8-person rafts that together will form a 5 1\/2 minute ride experience including 180 feet of it on an elevated river channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2._KEY-ART_MYSTIC_RIVER_FALLS-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-264\" width=\"512\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2._KEY-ART_MYSTIC_RIVER_FALLS-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2._KEY-ART_MYSTIC_RIVER_FALLS-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2._KEY-ART_MYSTIC_RIVER_FALLS-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2._KEY-ART_MYSTIC_RIVER_FALLS-624x353.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2._KEY-ART_MYSTIC_RIVER_FALLS.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Image courtesy of Silver Dollar City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rivertown Smokehouse will be a new eatery whose menu I am sure we will hear more about at a future date.  The location will provide covered seating as well as many opportunities to watch riders on Mystic River Falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Dollar City has announced that they are investing 27 million dollars on two new attractions for the 2020 season. These are Mystic River Falls, a white water rapids ride that claims to be the tallest in the western hemisphere, and Rivertown Smokehouse, a new eatery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-silver-dollar-city"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themeparkarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}