Drop Line
Drop Tower at Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Opened 2017.
- Height
- 200 ft
- Drop
- n/a
- Top speed
- n/a
- Length
- n/a
- Inversions
- n/a
- Ride time
- n/a
- Designer
- Funtime
Drop Line is a 200-foot drop tower in the Timber Canyon area of Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It is a Skyfall model built by Funtime of Austria and opened in May 2017. It stands where the park's earlier Timber Tower ride ran, and Funtime reused that ride's foundation.
At the top, riders are more than 20 stories above Timber Canyon. The gondola slowly turns around the tower as it rises, giving a view over the Great Smoky Mountains, and then drops riders back toward the ground. It carries 24 riders at a time, for a capacity of about 600 riders per hour.
Riders must be at least 55 inches tall, and an over-the-shoulder restraint is used.
Sources
- dollywood.com/themepark/rides/dropline (Park page: 200-foot-tall drop tower in Timber Canyon lifting guests more than 20 stories; the gondola slowly spins around the tower as it ascends, then drops; over-the-shoulder restraint; 55-inch minimum height.)
- rideentertainment.com/dollywood-opens-drop-line (Ride Entertainment (Funtime's US representative), May 2017: Dollywood opened Drop Line, a 200-foot Skyfall drop ride from Funtime of Austria; 200 ft tower; 24 riders, 600 riders per hour; seats rotate around the tower during the ascent; built on the foundation of the former Timber Tower.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollywood (2017: a 200 ft freefall ride called Drop Line, which replaced Timber Tower, opened along with Whistle Punk Chaser.)
Numbers are from the ride's manufacturer and park where published; "n/a" means we have not confirmed that number yet. Spotted an error? Tell us.