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|area = |opening_date = 1961 (as Rebel Railroad) 1970 (as Goldrush Junction) 1976 (as Goldrush) 1977 (as Silver Dollar City) 1986 (as Dollywood) |season = March–December |rides = 27 |coasters = 7 |water_rides = 4 |owner = Dolly Parton with Herschend Family Entertainment |homepage = |slogan = "Love Every Moment "|previous_names = }} Dollywood is a theme park owned by entertainer Dolly Parton and Herschend Family Entertainment. It is located in the Knoxville-Smoky Mountains metroplex in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Hosting over 3 million guests in a typical season—Presidents' Day to the Christmas holidays—Dollywood is the biggest "ticketed" tourist attraction in Tennessee.〔King, Caitlin R., ("Dolly Parton Celebrates as Dollywood Turns 25" ), Associated Press report as published on the ABC News website, April 14, 2010, retrieved April 18, 2010〕 In addition to standard amusement park thrill rides, Dollywood features traditional crafts and music of the Smoky Mountains area. The park hosts a number of concerts and musical events each year, including appearances by Parton and her family, as well as other national and local musical acts, and is the site of the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame. Alongside sister waterpark Dollywood's Splash Country (), and Dollywood's DreamMore Resort ()〔http://www.ibtimes.com/dollywood-plans-300-million-expansion-dreammore-resort-1398281〕 (circa 2015), and Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede Dinner Attraction (5 acres), Dollywood is the anchor of Parton's Dollywood amusement resort. == History == The park opened in 1961 as a small tourist attraction by the Robins brothers from Blowing Rock, North Carolina, named "Rebel Railroad", featuring a steam train, general store, blacksmith shop, and saloon. In the spirit of the Civil War centennial visitors could ride the train and experience an attack by Union soldiers. The train and its riders were protected by Confederates who fought off the attack, thus the name "Rebel Railroad". The park was modeled after the Robins brothers' first successful theme park, Tweetsie in Blowing Rock. In 1970, Rebel Railroad was renamed "Goldrush Junction" when it was bought by Art Modell, who also owned the Cleveland Browns football team.〔(Company Info ) Dollywood.com (accessed July 16, 2010)〕〔() PigeonForge.com (accessed July 16, 2010)〕 In 1976, Jack and Pete Herschend bought Goldrush Junction and renamed it "Goldrush" for the 1976 season. In 1977, they renamed it "Silver Dollar City Tennessee" as a sister park to their original Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. In 1986, Dolly Parton, who grew up in the area, bought an interest in Silver Dollar City. As part of the deal, the park reopened for the 1986 season as "Dollywood". In 2010, Parton said she became involved with the operation because she "always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area."〔 Dollywood has 3,000 people on its payroll, making it the largest employer in that community. From 1986 to 2010, the park doubled in size to . In 2009, the park had a six percent decline in attendance, which a park spokesman attributed to bad weather, although many other theme parks in the United States suffered attendance drops that year, as often happens to relatively high-priced tourist attractions in recessions. As of 2015 prices for admission to the park were $62 for adults and $49 for children.〔 On November 16, 2010, Dollywood earned the industry's most prestigious award, the Liseberg Applause Award, which was accepted by Dolly Parton during a ceremony at IAAPA Attractions Expo 2010 in Orlando.〔(Dolly Parton theme park wins top industry award ) // Reuters, November 16, 2010〕 Parton said in 2010 that she would like to open more Dollywood parks in the future. "We definitely want to expand with new things every year, eventually with a resort," she said. "We may eventually have Dollywoods in other parts of the country, where we can kind of be true to whatever's going on in that part of the world."〔 During an announcement on August 21, 2013, Parton announced Dollywood's DreamMore Resort,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dollywood.com/Media/Press-Releases/10-Year-Announcement.aspx )〕 which opened on July 27, 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dollywood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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