Negative-G - Silver Dollar City - July 2013 Page Eight

The Outlaw Run Roller Coaster at Silver Dollar City, Branson, Missouri

I love an aggressive ride like Outlaw Run.

The Outlaw Run Roller Coaster at Outlaw Run at Silver Dollar City, Branson, Missouri

I have to say that we are in the middle os a renaissance in wood coaster design. It all began in 1995 with the Raven at Holiday World. Before that ride wooden coasters were pretty plain out and back designs, maybe a few twisters but they really didn't push the bounds of design.

Outlaw Run at Silver Dollar City, Branson, Missouri

Beginning with The Raven the boundaries of intensity began to be pushed and you can take every wicked twisted wooden coaster over the last eighteen years and they all lead to the insanity that is Outlaw Run.

Speaking of "intensity" here's Outlaw Run's intense double heart line roll finale from ground level.

I hate it when coasters at the end of the ride slam into the brakes with speed in excess. To me that is just wasted momentum that could be used. As you roll around Outlaw Run's seventy-hundred and twenty degree upward roll you're left hanging there against your restraints with blissful hang time before rolling out of it and gliding into the brakes.

Outlaw Run isn't just a ride...it is THE RIDE. Yeah this may sound like hype but I can't even come up with the words to describe what an amazing mind bending ride this is.