Big Bear Mountain reminded us a lot of Cheetah Hunt. It's of course a step down in intensity and thrill compared to Cheetah Hunt, but Big Bear Mountain is just plain fun in a similar way: Extremely smooth, good pacing, fun transitions, flows really well - just an all around enjoyable and pleasant experience.

Big Bear is great! I enjoyed it very much. Fire Chaser is good too but its throughput is terrible. We only got 2 rides on Fire Chaser because of that but or 4 rides in on BBM. It was our first visit to Dollywood and we loved it. We will be back.

Dollywood really is jack of all trades and master of the family genre at least. I mean really, between this, the invert and firechaser express, the family coasters are second to none except for *maybe* Disney. And with Lightning Rod, they have one of the best thrill coaster airtime machines in the world. Will finally get on Lightning Rod in about 6 weeks, if it's down I will literally make sure I get to ride it before I move on. I might do another nearby park then go back to Dollywood again the next day and so on till I get a front and back row ride at minimum, The one thing Dollywood needs now is another thrill coaster in the league of LR so it has an extreme 1-2 punch. For family it really has the 1-2-3 down pat. But the other extremes at Dollywood are just good, not outstanding if that makes sense. Believe it or not, out of their current lineup, I'd take Tennessee Tornado as my number 2, and I've never said that about any arrow looper before. But it's still not a headliner. Thunderhead, Wild Eagle and Mystery Mine are just basic enjoyable enough rides. Nothing outstanding again. An RMC custom single rail, or even a B&M hyper, or Mack spinner would be amazing for Dollywood. Overall for thrill seekers I think Hershey Park still has the best mix of coasters on planet Earth.

I laughed so hard when you said Big Bare Mountain. That's one of the best coaster puns I've ever heard.

Nice Review! Would have loved to see some more theming on this though, other than the near miss waterfall, it’s a pretty bare ride. At the very least it would have been cool to go by maybe some camp sites or something. My wish would have been to add more rockwork. Would have been really cool to enclose the long side by side launches in some sort of cave. Maybe they can always make improvements with this ride… one can wish

Never thought this would get a review before AF1 and Wildcat's Revenge haha

If this park didn't have Lightning Rod, this would easily be my favorite ride there.

I just rode this yesterday and it was really good

LOVE the ride!!! It’s my new favorite at the park

Seems like a really nice introduction to launches!

I was skeptical when I saw the ride revealed but it looks very solid, and the “butterfly moments” seem nice and enjoyable (the not airtime airtime if you get what I mean)

I can't believe there actually isn't any airtime!!! The pov makes it seem like it has so many pops.

I think Santa village in New Hampshire might get this ride for 2024

Very Cool 😎

I have not ridden either but this is so much better than LRod

I look forward to riding it, hopefully during Smoky Mountain Christmas, which I'm planning for a 5th straight year. Based on your review, I will probably say the same thing across the board. I was hoping for a little airtime like Manta (SWSD), but I'll love the immense length, smoothness, terrain usage, & on-board audio. I'll probably prefer Firechaser Express, which I have a soft spot for, but I'm sure I'll love this one too.

Wish this ride had 3 trains. Given the rides length and simple restraints, it seems it could easily do that or even 4

Really wish they added more of that rockwork and water features on the ride. The one waterfall looks a bit random, and it would’ve been cool to have a waterfall mountain around that turnaround. Kinda like Big Thunder Mountain

Are you planning to visit Soaky mountain in the area? It looks like one of the best waterparks in the country.

I wonder if Dollywood now has 2 Vekoma's would a thrill Vekoma fit well next like the Tilt Coaster, Bermuda Blitz, Vekoma Hyper or the modern extreme Boomerang

I like Firechaser Express better but I’m probably a little bias because it was the ride that made me like coasters

What a coincidence that sky rocket showed up in the review as I rode that today lol

I wonder if the reason it doesn’t have a lot of trees is because from what I heard was there was supposed to be more theming like the water falls

I agree more theming elements should have been added

It's right up there with Hagrid's, just more trees!

Great video! I’d really like to know how you think it compares to thunder mountain? And more generally, is it possible that Dollywood may be the better family park than Disney considering disneys super long wait times and high cost? Is Dollywood trying to be the disney alternative ?

I think this is basically what jungle rush is going to be in Dreamworld next year. It claims the same "12 spots of airtime" so I am really disappointed to read there are only 2 and only in the back rows. But other than that, it seems very re rideable and fun for the whole family.

No way this thing is as good as Verbolten... Could it be though?

Are u gonna also ride wildcats revenge then do a review soon

@Canobie Coaster right now I'm on a cruise, royal carribean's oasis of the seas. I hate it. Line are terrible. Doing anything on a sea day is miserable. Also, the itineraries are terrible. There's a port in Florida near Orlando, but you're only there like 7 hours, so what can you really do. Maybe Sea World or Fun Spot? Maybe a Disney watetpark? Definitely not an actual Disney or Universal Park there. Then, you have Nassau. This ports even worse. There is nowhere to eat, everything is overpriced, the only affordable waterpark closed at 6, while you get in at 1:30, therefore making it completely unworth it, and there was no way I was paying for Atlantis. The one in Dubai is better anyway. I wish I would've gone to Baha Bay though, but I was already paying for Royal Carribeans waterpark on their private island, and no one else in my family wanted to go. Only royal carribeans private island was any good. I reluctantly payed for a full day pass, knowing that wait times would likely take away any fun factor, but it didn't. This waterpark was a blast. The half pipe slide and the tallest slide there had terrible waits early on, but everything else had shockingly short waits. Some rides were even walk on! By the end of the day, the tallest slide only had a 15 minute wait, but the half pipe slide was still long. Overall though, I had a blast and got on everything atleast once. Just a shame about the rest of the vacation. I wish you could get to the waterpark without cruising.