Showing posts with label Dollywood's Project 2026. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dollywood's Project 2026. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

🔴🔴Night Flight - DOLLYWOOD'S NEW INDOOR ADVENTURE RIDE FOR 2026🔴🔴

Hi Everyone,
Today is the big day that we learn all the details about Hidden Hollow Aviation NightFlight Expedition!  We've all been waiting for months and months.  We've been teased to death, Dollywood managed to keep this secret pretty tight to their chests....which is difficult to do.  

All of this information comes from the great folks at Dollywood...


Video



What is it?










Where is it?  

Here's some images I've used in previous content...
  1. The large teal rectangle is where the building is in Wildwood Grove.  Earlier this summer, I super-imposed Blazing Fury over the construction area to compare the size of the two rides.  It appears as though NightFlight Expedition is almost TWICE as large as Blazing Fury.   
  2. The 2nd image is the most up-to-date satellite map image that I could find...so it's more up to date.  Note that it does include the large earth mound below the building - and that mound is featured in the latest Video Teaser from Dollywood, so it appears to be connected in some type of way.  It's to the immediate right of the yellow-unrelated-arrow.
  3. The Third image is a screengrab of the earthen mound from the teaser video.
  4. The Fourth image is a wider view of the NightFlight Expedition site and rest of the park.


a Wider View of NightFlight Expedition - formerly known as Hidden Hollow Aviation - inside Dollywood





What kind of ride is this?

It is an indoor hybrid roller coaster and water ride.  It's not exactly the first of it's kind.  Mission Bermuda (See video below) opened in France earlier in 2025.  Please note that NightFlight Expedition will not look anything like M.B.  NightFlight Expedition will be utilizing much of the same EQUIPMENT.  NightFlight Expedition will be entirely indoors and will feature ''flight'' and a lake, and some river rapids, using over 500k gallons of water!  Pretty Cool!

Here's Mission Bermudes Video.  Again, NightFlight Expedition will use the same EQUIPMENT.  The ride experiences will of course be different at Dollywood.  We may see new things on NightFlight Expedition that we're not seeing here, so this is exciting!

Will I get wet?  

Maybe a little bit - a few drops and some mist perhaps, but you won't be dripping wet at the end of the ride.

Additional Media Coverage from September 17, 2025

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🔷KnoxNews/USA Today...Click Here

🔷WATE-TV - ABC Affiliate in Knoxville - Click Here

🔷WVLT-TV - CBS Affiliate in Knoxville - Click Here

🔷WBIR-TV - NBC Affilate in Knoxville - Click Here (more details in this article compared to others)

I will continue to add to this post as new information becomes available to me!

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Monday, June 23, 2025

🌷🌺Photo Trip Report/Vlogs/Blog - Dollywood's Flower + Food Festival for 2025🌺🌷

Hi Everyone!

This article includes all of my visit to Flower + Food Festival AND A Photo Trip Report that include some of the pics from my visit.  I want to try and include a Photo Trip report in my blog for every visit this season!

Let's start with the videos, and below that the Photo Trip Report!

If they were put the videos in chronological order, they would go this way....














TRIP REPORT PHOTOS FROM PART ONE VIDEO
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UMBRELLA SKY

UMBRELLA TOPIARY

DOLLY'S MOM MAKING THE COAT OF MANY COLORS

RACOON FAMILY TOPIARIES

RACOON

DOLLY'S TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN HOME

'DOLLYWOOD' SIGN UP ON HILLSIDE

TURTLE TOPIARY

TURTLE AND FROG TOPIARIES

BLACK BEAR FAMILY TOPIARIES

DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS PASSING BY

SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE


SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE


SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE


SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE


SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE


SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS -UPPER LOOP

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS - WILDWOOD GROVE

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS - PROJECT 2026

Link to my Blog Post about "Hidden Hollow Aviation" - Some Guesses and other details!  Click Here.


AKA - 'HIDDEN HOLLOW AVIATION'

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS - GRIST MILL

NEW SIGN

PULLING INTO THE DEPOT


AWESOME JOB!

#70 CINDERELLA

#70 CINDERELLA


TRIP REPORT PHOTOS FROM PART TWO VIDEO
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SKY OF MANY COLORS - FOR SUMMER FESTIVAL

GRIST MILL

DUCK TOPIARY

WATER WHEEL AND PRETTY LANDSCAPING

PRETTY LANDSCAPING IN C.VALLEY

PORK RINDS

BLACKSMITH SHOP

DAREDEVIL FALLS

DAREDEVIL FALLS

DAREDEVIL FALLS

DAREDEVIL FALLS

DAREDEVIL FALLS

TENNESSEE TORNADO

LOOKING BACK AT 'ADVENTURE MOUNTAIN', WHERE
FIRECHASER NOW SITS

LOOKING BACK AT 'ADVENTURE MOUNTAIN', WHERE
FIRECHASER NOW SITS

LOOKING BACK AT 'ADVENTURE MOUNTAIN', WHERE
FIRECHASER NOW SITS

FIRECHASER EXPRESS

FIRECHASER EXPRESS

NEW WILDERNESS PASS RESTAURANT

NEW WILDERNESS PASS RESTAURANT

NEW WILDERNESS PASS RESTAURANT

PROJECT 2026 - 'HIDDEN HOLLOW AVIATION', AS SEEN FROM WILDWOOD GROVE/BBM.

WILDWOOD CREEK

DUCKS IN THE FOUNTAIN

SHOWSTREET

UMBRELLA SKY W GREAT LIGHTING

NEW TOPIARY

COMMON SNAPPING TURTLE IN RIVERTOWN LAKE

EMPORIUM MERCH

EMPORIUM MERCH

EMPORIUM MERCH

EMPORIUM MERCH

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🔴🔴Night Flight - DOLLYWOOD'S NEW INDOOR ADVENTURE RIDE FOR 2026🔴🔴

Hi Everyone, Today is the big day that we learn all the details about Hidden Hollow Aviation NightFlight Expedition!  We've all been wa...