Location: Silver Dollar City

Silver Dollar City

Silver Dollar City is a theme park in the state of Missouri. Opened on May 1, 1960, the park is located between Branson and Branson West, Missouri, on Highway 76...

Status: Open

Opened: Jim Owen’s Ozark Float Trip 1969-1980,
American Plunge 1981–Present Day

Drop: 50 feet (15.2 m)

Max speed: 35 miles per hour (56 km/h)

Ride Length 1,200 feet

Ride Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds

Capacity: 800 guests per hour

Height restriction: 34 inches (86 cm)
American Plunge is a log flume

Log flume (attraction)

Log flumes originally referred to a special construct used to transport lumber and logs down mountainous terrain to a sawmill by using flowing water. Today, however, the term is also used to refer to an amusement ride consisting of a water flume and artificial hollow logs or boats...

 at Silver Dollar City

Silver Dollar City

Silver Dollar City is a theme park in the state of Missouri. Opened on May 1, 1960, the park is located between Branson and Branson West, Missouri, on Highway 76...

 in Branson, Missouri

Branson, Missouri

Branson is a city in Taney County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It was named after Reuben Branson, postmaster and operator of a general store in the area in the 1880s....

. The queueing line of this ride is parallel to the path to Silver Dollar City's steel looping coaster, Wildfire.

History

The American Plunge notably replaced Jim Owens Float Trip, a boat ride around a man-made river with animatronics. The float trip included a tumbling outhouse, whirlpools and a dark cave. Some sections of the original ride's man-made river were reused for the log flume. A large portion of the ride’s channel are no longer used, however they still exist and are used as theme in Wildfire’s overflow queue-line.

Theme

The American Plunge’s theme is centered on Ozark daredevilry. The trip is a race to the plunge. Along the way you encounter others trying to beat you to the summit. Your opponents are facing obstacles of their own, tumbling off cliffs, broken boat and a whirlpool. You yourself become the hero by defying the plunge and turn into a legend. The American Plunge’s boats are themed as tonic barrels and can carry a total of six passengers.

Rider experience

As four to six enter the tonic shapped flumes. You travel through different scenes, including a man that appears to be drowning. After all of the scenes, you go through a tunnel, up a lift-hill, and down a steep drop into water. Then you slowly float around the exit path back into the station.

External links

• American Plunge at bransonsilverdollarcity.com
• American Plunge at SDCFans.com