Silver Dollar City announces plans for $6 million ride

The Giant Swing will feature two compressed-air-powered arms that swing riders 75 feet in the air and drop them at speeds reaching 45 miles per hour. Each arm will have 16 back-to-back seats and will arc nearly 230 degrees.

The attraction, created by Logan, Utah-based S&S Power, will be set inside a hay barn. The Great Swing will be located in the park’s new one-acre Great Barn area, behind the Lost River waterway.

The Great Barn area also will feature street shows, themed dining options and two 35-feet silo-themed climbing towers, where riders use rope-pulls to propel themselves 30 feet into the air. Pairs of riders will be able to race to the top of the towers, which rotate to give views of the park, and free-fall back down.

Also new in the spring, White Water, Silver Dollar City’s water park, will debut its biggest ride to date – a seven-story, six-slide attraction. The $1.5 million ride will feature two 300-foot body-drop water slides and four 312-foot racing-lane water slides.

Lisa Rau, spokeswoman for Silver Dollar City Attractions, said there is no truth to a rumor that SDC has purchased Factory Merchants’ Red Roof Mall to use for the expansion of White Water or another attraction. “We’ve heard it for years, and it’s not true,” Rau said.

White Water opens May 25.

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