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Silver Dollar City
Score7.0
🇺🇸United StatesTheme parkNorth America (USA)
Branson, Missouri, United States
A Missouri park styled as an 1880s craft village, with excellent coasters.
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Opened
1960
Size
61 acres (25 ha)
Rides
40 attractions
Avg. visit
7 hours
Ticket range
$70–$95 USD
Silver Dollar City overview
Silver Dollar City at a glance
A Missouri park styled as an 1880s craft village, with excellent coasters.
Silver Dollar City is an Ozark heritage village where resident blacksmiths and glassblowers work beside Outlaw Run and Time Traveler, two of the most awarded coasters of the last decade. Its food, live music and autumn festivals earn it some of the highest guest-satisfaction scores in the US.
Our editor's recommendation
Worth a day, but build it into a wider trip rather than flying in for it. It ranks #35 of the 50 parks we score, at 7.0/10 with 40 rides and attractions and a typical visit of about 7 hours. Tickets run $70–$95 a day. The strongest reasons to go are its family-friendly range. The honest catch: tickets are expensive for what you get, and queues average around 19 minutes. Best time to visit: Fall.
Silver Dollar City highlights
Rides & attractions at Silver Dollar City
These are the top attractions at Silver Dollar City — 10 rides and experiences hand-picked and verified by our editorial team, including 6 signature rides you shouldn't miss. Use the filter bar below to narrow the line-up by rider height, zone, category or thrill level.
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Plan your visit to Silver Dollar City
- Operating hours
- Typically 9:30am-6pm, extended during summer and the Christmas festival
- Operating calendar
- Seasonal: March through October, plus autumn festival dates and a Christmas season.
- Seasonal closures
- Closed January to mid-March; limited days in spring and late autumn
- Queue-skip pass
- Trailblazer Pass gives one-time priority boarding on participating rides. From about $45 USD.
- How long to stay
- Full day
- Multi-day tickets
- No standalone multi-day ticket; a second day can be added to a 1-day ticket for about $20 extra.
- Season pass
- Annual or season pass from about $130 USD.
Silver Dollar City map
Official park mapSilver Dollar City events & shows
An Old Time Christmas
Award-winning Christmas festival with millions of lights, a five-storey tree and holiday shows.
Bluegrass & BBQ Festival
Spring festival with bluegrass performers and barbecue from across the country.
National Harvest & Cowboy Festival
Autumn festival with craftsmen, western entertainment and seasonal food.
Silver Dollar City reviews & ratings
Amusement Park Ranker overall score
7.0
An aggregate of 3 public review platforms, each normalized to a 0–10 scale and weighted by review volume.
Silver Dollar City wait times
- Typical day
19
- Crowd & wait score
4.5
Silver Dollar City records & achievements
World's steepest wooden roller coaster (Outlaw Run)
2013Outlaw Run opened in 2013 with an 81-degree first drop and was the first wooden coaster to feature multiple inversions.
Golden Ticket Award for Best Food
Silver Dollar City has repeatedly won Amusement Today's Golden Ticket Award for Best Food at an amusement park.
Attractions near Silver Dollar City
Table Rock Lake
Clear Ozark reservoir for boating, scuba and lakeside trails.
Branson Theatre District
Dozens of live music and variety theatres along Highway 76.
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