PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (WATE) — As Dollywood continues to welcome guests for its fortieth 12 months of operation, the Pigeon Forge-based theme park has as soon as once more been acknowledged as probably the most common theme parks on the earth.
Tripadvisor officers named Dollywood the primary theme park within the U.S. as a part of its 2025 Vacationers’ Alternative Better of the Finest Awards. This marks the third time within the final 4 years that the park has garnered the highest spot.
See the complete prime 10 under:
Dollywood (Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
Magic Kingdom Park (Bay Lake, Fla.)
Knoebels Amusement Resort (Elysburg, Pa.)
Disney’s Hollywood Studios (Bay Lake, Fla.)
Common Islands of Journey (Orlando, Fla.)
Enjoyable Spot America (Kissimmee, Fla.)
LEGOLAND California (Carlsbad, Calif.)
Common Studios Florida (Orlando, Fla.)
Silver Greenback Metropolis (Branson, Mo.)
Whale’s Story Waterpark (Lincoln, N.H.)
See the whole listing on the Tripadvisor web site.
Dollywood was additionally the one U.S.-based theme park to make the highest 15 of Tripadvisor’s 2025 worldwide rankings, coming in at No. 11 on that listing.
The 165-acre theme park is co-owned by Dolly Parton’s leisure firm, Dolly Parton Productions, and Herschend Household Leisure. Annual attendance recurrently eclipses two million guests, in accordance with dollywood.com.
Dollywood is the most important employer in Sevier County and a 2021 examine by the Tennessee Division of Transportation discovered that the park had an annual direct financial impression of $1.8 billion.
Whereas Parton famously doesn’t experience curler coasters, the park has constantly added new points of interest for guests to take pleasure in.
“If I get on that thing, you’d find my wigs on one of those trees,” she joked in 2023 in regards to the new “Big Bear Mountain” curler coaster that may attain speeds as much as 48 mph.
Park officers revealed forward of the 2025 season that plans are within the works for a brand new experience that’s the “biggest, most ambitious and possibly the most expensive project that the park has undertaken.” Whereas mission particulars haven’t but been revealed, they mentioned that guests will “take flight” in 2026.
The awards are primarily based on traveler evaluations and scores throughout a 12-month interval. Vacationers’ Alternative Better of the Finest award winners are among the many prime 1 p.c of listings, in accordance with Tripadvisor.
“We don’t provide the best guest experience in the country to try to win these awards,” mentioned Dollywood Parks & Resorts President Eugene Naughton in an announcement. “We do it as a result of it’s the proper factor to do. Our company have choices on the place they will spend their time, and once they select to go to us, we wish to give them a world-class expertise.”
“This award is humbling though, because it is derived from real reviews left by our actual guests describing their time here at our parks and resorts,” he added.
