Silver Dollar City reveals record-setting indoor family roller coaster
Dailey & Vincent will be heard when Silver Dollar City opens its new groundbreaking $30 million Fire in the Hole indoor family roller coaster in Branson, Missouri in spring 2024. The new attraction will be the largest coaster in the Midwest, and feature 14 iconic scenes and a musical soundtrack featuring the Grammy-nominated, three-time IBMA Entertainer of the Year bluegrass group led by Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent.
The revamped Fire in the Hole doubles the size of one of the city’s most popular areas, already home to a collection of family-friendly attractions. The coaster experience, with a powered incline and gravity descent, including three drops and a quick splash-landing, promises a thrilling ride. In addition, a custom soundtrack with high-resolution onboard audio, show lighting effects and enhanced special effects, like using fiber optics to create a fast-burning fuse, heightens the ride experience and brings the Fire in the Hole story to life. Nearly a third-of-a-mile long, the new ride is housed in a five-story, temperature-controlled building to ensure ridership regardless of weather.
True to Silver Dollar City’s roots, the new ride’s storyline is steeped in authentic regional heritage as the story is a fictional account of a real night in Ozark Mountain history when the mining town of Marmaros was burned to the ground by notorious vigilantes called the Baldknobbers. Created for multiple generations, Fire in the Hole depicts the day when Silver Dollar City citizens of all ages are pressed into service to save their town. The makers of the finest fire wagons in America’s Heartland, the Silver Dollar City Pumper Factory, invite the townspeople to the unveiling of their newest model.
Instead, the visitors find the town in flames due to the reckless Baldknobbers. Ignited into action, everyone bands together to battle the fire.
The new attraction is inspired by the original Fire in the Hole attraction, first imagined, engineered and custom built at Silver Dollar City in 1972. Now celebrating its final season at the Ozarks park, the first version made history when it opened, being lauded as one of the world’s first indoor roller coasters. To date, more than 25 million guests have experienced the original Ozark adventure and final rides continue through the end of the 2023 season.
Dailey & Vincent were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in March 2017. A combined 20 years between the two of them include tenures with Doyle Lawson and Ricky Skaggs. They have also performed or recorded with Dolly Parton, Rhonda Vincent, Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris and others.
