Outlaw Run, Wooden roller coaster at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri
Outlaw Run is a wooden roller coaster at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, covering 2937 feet of track and reaching speeds of 68 miles per hour (109 km/h). It winds through three full inversions among the forested hills of the Ozark mountain range.
Rocky Mountain Construction built this wooden coaster in 2013 as their first attempt at designing and manufacturing wooden roller coasters. The manufacturer tested a new technique combining wooden structure with steel reinforcement on this ride.
The ride celebrates the American West heritage with a timber-framed station and a themed queue full of saddle-style seats and signage echoing outlaw towns. References to train robberies and frontier gunfighters appear throughout, placing riders in an era when bandits roamed the Ozarks.
The coaster operates with two trains, each carrying 24 riders in six cars with two rows of two seats apiece. Riders should be prepared for steep drops and multiple inversions, so check health notices at the entrance.
The track uses a combination of traditional wooden construction and steel plating, enabling a first drop at 81 degrees from a height of 162 feet (49 m). This technique allows elements that would not normally be possible on purely wooden coasters.
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