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Dollywood Kicks Off Smoky Mountain Christmas 2020
Dollywood is turning on its 5 million lights this weekend for the start of its annual Smoky Mountain Christmas event, which runs select dates November 7, 2020-January 3, 2021. This year’s Smoky Mountain Christmas will feature a new fireworks show,...
Continue reading...Dollywood Prepares for Great Pumpkin LumiNights 2020
Dollywood is preparing to kick off its annual Harvest Festival, which includes the very popular Great Pumpkin LumiNights nighttime event. The festivities kick off this Friday, September 25, 2020. The event runs daily (except Tuesdays and Thursdays) through Halloween, October...
Continue reading...Summer Park Trips Recap with John Stevenson! – The Coaster101 Podcast
Regular podcast listeners may have noticed that your typical hosts haven’t actually been to any parks this summer. Well, this week we’re fixing that! Andrew and Eric are joined by Coaster101 founder John Stevenson to talk about all the parks...
Continue reading...The Sights and Tastes of Dollywood’s Inaugural Flower & Food Festival
Dollywood reopened last week following an extended closure due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic (read more about the changes the park has implemented here). The park’s inaugural Food & Flower Festival was originally slated to run May 8-June 14, but...
Continue reading...11 Changes You’ll See at Dollywood in 2020
A different yet familiar Dollywood opened to season passholders on Monday and Tuesday and opens to the general public on Wednesday. The park opened for just one season passholder preview day in mid-March before closing due to the ongoing coronavirus...
Continue reading...Dollywood Reopening Dates for Passholders and General Public Announced
Dollywood today announced plans to reopen the park exclusively to season passholders on June 15 and 16 and to the general public on June 17. Dollywood’s Splash Country water park will also reopen on June 17, with season passholder preview...
Continue reading...Dollywood Gives Back During Coronavirus Closure
Dollywood might be temporarily closed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, but the park isn’t letting that stop it from giving back to the community and the surrounding East Tennessee region. Last week, Dollywood’s wardrobe and costume shop teams began...
Continue reading...Dollywood Festival of Nations and 35th Anniversary Season Begin This Weekend
UPDATE: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Dollywood is delaying its season opening until March 28. Dollywood officially kicks off its 35th anniversary season tomorrow, April 14, 2020 along with the 20th annual multicultural Festival of Nations event. This year’s Festival...
Continue reading...Dollywood Smoky Mountain Coasterfest and Christmas
Roller coaster enthusiasts from across the country gathered at Dollywood last weekend for the annual Smoky Mountain Coasterfest, which is organized by the American Coaster Enthusiasts (ACE) Southeast Region. This year’s event entailed exclusive ride time (ERT) on Lightning Rod,...
Continue reading...What’s the Best Arrow Looper Left?
With Vortex at King’s Island officially retired last month, I’ve been thinking about Arrow looping coasters. These days they’re generally regarded as pretty rough, and the popularity of the older coasters has dwindled. As they age it also gets harder...
Continue reading...Dollywood Kicks Off Smoky Mountain Christmas 2019
The holidays are just around the corner, which means Dollywood will soon kick off its annual, award-winning Smoky Mountain Christmas event. Running Nov. 9, 2019 – Jan. 4, 2020, Smoky Mountain Christmas offers guests more than 5 million lights, live...
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