Mystery Mine,steel roller coaster at Dollywood, USA
Expect headbangingjarring roughness, riders say A haunted minetheming riders call epic

Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

Mystery Mine

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Back row
This ride is my guilty pleasure.
shoot jets of fire at me
What riders love
  • This ride has great theming and is one of the best themed non Disney rides I've been on.
  • Great theming, two vertical lift hills, a vertical drop, great finale, and feels like a mine cart going through an abandoned mineshaft (at least when it’s inside)
  • The theming is epic and might just be the best i have ever encountered.
  • That finale is fantastic though! Incredible hangtime on the dive loop.
  • the second half is absolutely amazing though, insane drop and some of the best hangtime ever on the dive loop.
  • You fly through a barrel roll, very smoothly may i add, then roll over again and are hung upside down for a few seconds before dropping out and hitting the brakes.
  • It is full of surprises that I won't give away. The first time you ride it you will have no idea what is happening or where you are going.
  • In contrast to its cousins, you often don't see what's ahead on the track, which adds a lot of surprising moves to the ride.
  • Theming was awesome, the first lift was insane and a massive surprise, the second lift and drop even more so.
Mystery Mine Watch Performance Should I ride it? Specifications Reviews Planning History

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Mystery Mine front seat on-ride 4K POV @60fps Dollywood

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Mystery Mine Review HD Dollywood Roller Coaster Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter

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Performance

Vs. other coasters at Dollywood

The final inversion is pretty awesome and the drop out of the station gives surprising airtime.

Inverted Thrills

While it’s not as dramatic as the original, the new drop offers a surprising pop of airtime.

Coaster101

You have an awesome beyond vertical drop that gives ejector airtime.

Ben Lilly

that 95° drop somehow gave me crazy ejector

@LV_Paco_LV

The second half of this ride is much more enjoyable and smooth.

@pdk25

When I rode this I wasn’t much of an enthusiast, so I thought the headbanging on the dark ride section was intentional so I didn’t mind it.

Arrow Die-Namics

Mystery Mine is good and nicely themed, but suffers from the jarring roughness and headbanging typical of most Eurofighters.

Theme Park James

The retracked section with the steep drop and the low to the ground turn are pretty intense without being uncomfortable, but that’s about all this section really has to offer.

Ben Lilly

Some janky profiling can’t hold The Misty Mystery Mine back from being a forceful, enjoyable experience.

Anthony DeNight Jr.

The Mystery Mine is probably an ideal ride for more inexperienced riders to get hooked on rollercoasters.

Simon

This one isn’t very intense and seems to focus more on theming.

Max S.

I remembered the significant amount of headbanging, and how most of the ride, bar for the 95° drop and pair of inversions, is one massive “dead spot”.

Kw6sTheater

On the one hand, the whole first half of the ride is incredibly awkward and kind of slow.

Incredible Coasters

However, the rest of this review takes place 1 hour and 40 minutes afterwards, because the line is honest to God the SLOWEST LINE IN NORTH AMERICA.

roller rider

If the lines are reasonable (which they often aren’t due to this being a Eurofighter), this is definitely worth a couple rides.

Jacob Clark
Motion sickness risk

When I rode it, someone threw up after the ride, and we had to wait 30 mins until it started again XD

@dob4870

it really was not bad and I didn’t expect a lot of what it put me through, but as someone who gets nauseous this was NOT for me to handle.

riley s.

Should I ride it?

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Specifications

85 ftHeight
210 Wild Eagle 164 LightningRod 163 TennesseeTornado 100 Thunderhead 85 MysteryMine 66 Big BearMountain
85 ftFirst drop
165 LightningRod 135 Wild Eagle 128 TennesseeTornado 100 Thunderhead 85 MysteryMine
44 mphTop speed
Lightning Rod73 TennesseeTornado63 Wild Eagle61 Thunderhead54 Big BearMountain48 Mystery Mine44 073 mph
95°Drop angle
95°MysteryMine73°LightningRod60°Thunderheaddashed line: straight down, 90°
2Inversions

What riders say

Praised for

Great themingHangtimeGreat inversions

Criticised for

Head bangingRough or rattlyPainful or bruisingUncomfortable restraintsWeak layout

Great theming Great finale the drop int tha finale is great and the dark ride sections are awesome but its so rough especially the first outside portion.

Lacie Lawson, Captain Coaster review

It never moves fluidly for more than a few seconds, this ride feels like a bunch of elements mashed together with no thought put towards the transitions.

Rowan L., Captain Coaster review

Great theming, two vertical lift hills, a vertical drop, great finale, and feels like a mine cart going through an abandoned mineshaft (at least when it’s inside)

Ednor L Attaque Never did it, Captain Coaster review

Terrible restraints but a very well themed dark ride with some arrow mine train turns and a few good inversions with a good final drop.

Danny Miller, Captain Coaster review

45 mph and 1,800 feet aren’t the most impressive coaster stats, but Mystery Mine is a world-class roller coaster all the way around.

Coaster Critic, published review

Theming and finale are awesome, but there was some bad head banging in the first half.

Natalie K., Captain Coaster review

Photos

Mystery Mine,steel roller coaster at Dollywood, USA
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Mystery Mine,steel roller coaster at Dollywood, USA
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Mystery Mine,steel roller coaster at Dollywood, USA
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Mystery Mine's new layout
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Mystery Mine at Dollywood
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Mystery Mine's station
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Mystery Mine at Dollywood
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Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter (Mystery Mine - Dollywood)
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Mystery Mine's first outdoor section lanes
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Mystery Mine at Dollywood
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11 photographs. Swipe or drag sideways.

Planning your ride

History and awards

April 13, 2007Opened

Built by Gerstlauer, designed by Ing.-Büro Stengel.

$17.5 millionTo build

Past incidents

  1. July 2020On July 11, 2020, three park guests were walking on a pathway that trails underneath a bridged part of the ride when a decorative chain gave way and fell on top of them.

Golden Ticket Awards, top steel coaster: ranked in 2 polls, 2007 to 2008

47th2007, its first poll
47th2008, most recent
1incident blamed on the ride

Sources

Restraint types: Captain Coaster. History, incidents and awards: Wikipedia. Specifications and status: Coasterpedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Also read: Captain Coaster (converted to feet and mph). Rider sentiment and performance scores: rider reviews on Captain Coaster, coaster101.com, themeparkjames.co.uk, incrediblecoasters.com, read and scored by AirtimeFever.

Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Coasterman1234 at en.wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0), Coasterman1234 at English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0), Coasterman1234 (CC BY-SA 3.0), Jeremy Thompson (CC BY 2.0), Gerstlauer Amusement Rides GmbH (CC BY-SA 3.0 de), Robert M. Lavinsky (CC BY-SA 3.0). Video thumbnails remain the property of their channels and link back to them.

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What riders love, by theme (themes in the order riders pick them most on Captain Coaster): Chris K., rider review on Captain Coaster: “The theming is perfect, the song gets stuck in…”; Joe Bord, rider review on Captain Coaster: “This ride has great theming and is one of…”; Ednor L Attaque Never did it, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Great theming, two vertical lift hills, a vertical drop,…”; Myroslav, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The theming is epic and might just be the…”; Ben Lilly, rider review on Captain Coaster: “You then traverse a whippy heartline roll which immediately…”; Sena Coasters, rider review on Captain Coaster: “That finale is fantastic though! Incredible hangtime on the…”; Jamie Óchi, rider review on Captain Coaster: “the second half is absolutely amazing though, insane drop…”; Delirium_Guy, forum post on kicentral.com: “You fly through a barrel roll, very smoothly may…”; roller rider, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Surprises await you at every corner.”; Brian Sheldon, rider review on Captain Coaster: “It is full of surprises that I won't give…”; Heiko Hartmann, rider review on Captain Coaster: “In contrast to its cousins, you often don't see…”; Mary Douglas Hayworth, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Theming was awesome, the first lift was insane and…”; Alex Maxam, rider review on Captain Coaster: “This ride is my guilty pleasure.”; David, rider review on Captain Coaster: “That said, I do love it when rides actually…”.

The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: ThemeParkMark's back row POV, Mystery Mine - Dollywood - Back Row (4K HD POV) - October 2023 (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.