"Hang onto your hats and glasses, folks, cause this here's the wildest ride in the wilderness!" And with that, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad celebrated its Grand Opening on November 15, 1980.

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is a wonderfully themed roller-coaster with turns and dips through caverns, mountains, avalanches and floods reminiscent of the Old West.

The queue area takes you into the headquarters of the Big Thunder Mining Co. You enter converted ore cars for your journey....but wait, there is NO conductor! Too late, you are off for a 3 minutes and a half minute ride into the wilderness!

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