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The Yeti Fun Zone and Maze at Bigfoot on the Band has a array of underground tunnels, a slide, braiding climbs and more.(Photo: Submitted photo)

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You don’t accept to accept in Bigfoot to adore Bigfoot on the Strip.

The Branson allure opened Memorial Weekend and provides a array of ancestors ball themed about the legend.

“A affair is actually important,” said Emma Hamilton, one of the owners. “We adulation accepting article to accompany the acuteness to life. Bigfoot is article bodies of all ages apperceive about and accept or don’t believe. It fits the Ozarks because there are so abounding accurate sightings in the Branson area.”

The aboriginal affair visitors are acceptable to apprehension isn’t a bristling beast, but a tower.

The 200-foot alpine Bigfoot Action Belfry appearance two rides: The Gravity Bomb and Super Sling. The Gravity Bomb is one of alone two in the nation and it’s the tallest.

People get accessible to go on the Gravity Bomb in Branson, one of alone two such rides in the country. (Photo: Submitted photo)

“We can say ours is the alone one like it in the world,” Hamilton said.

The Gravity Bomb can authority up to eight bodies and is a chargeless abatement ride that lifts riders up to the top to absorb up the adorableness of the Ozark Mountains.

“The angle are gorgeous. You get to see the hills and everything. You abeyance at top and after warning, the basal avalanche out. It is actually exhilarating,” Hamilton said.

There are no cables absorbed and instead the armchair break with an apple allurement arrangement so it’s a abundant smoother ride than bodies anticipate.

Emma Hamilton (Photo: Submitted photo)

The Super Sling seats two riders back-to-back and shoots them up into the air, and again they circuit end-over-end all the way aback down. It about does three turns on the way down.

The rides are accepted with teenagers, boys and adolescent adults, but Hamilton says they accept had barter into their backward 80s and alike one who tackled it for her 91st birthday.

While the Super Sling tends to alarm added bodies initially, it has added echo riders because it’s not bungee based so bodies don’t feel like they're actuality flung and don’t accept the burden awareness that occurs with a bungee, said Hamilton.

The Super Sling shoots bodies about 200 anxiety in the air and uses a alluring braking system. (Photo: Submitted photo)

If that sounds intimidating, there’s a miniature golf advance themed about Bigfoot. Springfield artisan Emily Million hand-painted the autogenous of the 270-foot adit with UV acrylic so the animals afterglow inside. There are altered representations of Bigfoot from a bearded amber barbarian to a white monster that looks added like the abhorrent snowman apery altered variations of Bigfoot.

Outside, there’s a Yeti Zone and Maze which has a arrangement of underground tunnels, treehouse, net crawls and a circling slide.

While families with accouchement age 8 to 16 are the ambition market, there are options for adolescent kids and earlier adults.

Bigfoot Discovery Expedition

A ages ago, a Bigfoot Discovery Campaign was added and takes visitors out of boondocks to Bigfoot Farms, which is home to the better assemblage of Scottish Highland beasts in the Midwest, said Clarke McBratney, who led the bout that day.

Scottish Highland beasts alive in an breadth in Scotland with common Bigfoot sightings, which is breadth the Bigfoot affiliation comes in. Plus, these are beautiful, accommodating animals and bodies adore them, said McBratney.

A Scottish Highland cow approaches the barter acquisitive to be fed. This is the better assemblage in the Midwest. (Photo: Juliana Goodwin/for the News-Leader)

Visitors ride in an all-terrain barter custom-built in Nevada with accessible windows. The adventure can be acutely aflutter in spots, so may not be acceptable for bodies with bad backs.

On this day, Lee and Shirley Cline, from Overland Park, Kansas, and Alan and Nancy Smiley, of Roseville, Minnesota, are on the expedition.

The barter stops to appointment a assemblage of accomplished Scottish Highland beasts who anon admission the vehicle, acquisitive to be fed. McBratney passes out aliment to the tourists who ability bottomward to augment the beasts as they extend their continued sandpaper-like tongues to lap it up.

Front to back: Lee and Shirley Cline of Overland Park., Kan., and Nancy Smiley of Roseville, Minn., attending out the window at Scottish Highland cattle. (Photo: Juliana Goodwin/for the News-Leader)

This brand has continued horns, alike the females.

One cow has its arch ashore in a gate, so the disciplinarian and McBratney jump out of the barter to chargeless it. They chase for a dogie built-in a anniversary before, but don’t acquisition it and move on.

The bout meanders through accustomed Ozark woodlands and goes bottomward into a quarry on the property.

According to McBratney, one of the affidavit this bindle of acreage was purchased is because there accept been Bigfoot sightings, decidedly a abiding one from a man who fabricated booze on the land. After all-encompassing interviews, a anchorman assured it was apparently the booze that fabricated him see Bigfoot.

The barter snakes by a baby cave, limestone bluffs, a bounce and persimmon trees. As the tourists authority on to seats in advanced of them, the barter rumbles and accuse up a narrow, abrupt hill. From the top, there are attractive angle of the countryside.

“This is great,” said Lee Cline. “I adulation actuality outdoors.”

Clarke McBratney pauses on top of a acropolis to point out the Ozark countryside. The ride can be actual aflutter at times, but there are admirable views. (Photo: Juliana Goodwin/for the News-Leader)

Currently, it is a breathtaking tour, but in the spring, it will aggrandize to accept added of a hunting Bigfoot element. McBratney says he can’t acknowledge too much, but bodies who architecture sets for Disney are alive on an added component.

Nancy Smiley was not disappointed, adage she accepted the actuality the accustomed acreage was preserved and it was a adventitious to see the absolute Ozarks, not one that has been engineered.

For the best allotment it is not engineered, although it is at spots. In the bowel of the quarry, corrective on a limestone bluff, are ample autography that acquaint a Built-in American adaptation of the Bigfoot tale. The Ozarks has a continued history of Bigfoot sightings dating aback to the Osage Indians, said Clarke.

The army chuckles at the autography and again the bout active aback to Branson.

Family fun

Back on the strip, the Wilkinsons, a ancestors of six, adjudge to accouterment Bigfoot’s 8Di theatre, an immersive and alternate gaming experience.

Inside the aphotic theatre are 14 off-road mini bikes. While mom watches from the sidelines, her bedmate Jamie and four kids don 3-D glasses and a authority up affected accoutrements to shoot at the behemothic awning in advanced of them. Lights flash, the bikes amplitude from ancillary to side, and during this basic experience, they try to accomplishment Bigfoot and shoot at angry scientists who accept captured him and his family.

Springfield artisan Emily Million corrective this Bigfoot which is in a adit on the miniature golf advance at the Branson attraction. (Photo: Juliana Goodwin/for the News-Leader)

Oldest son Blake, 17, has the best aim and array the accomplished marks for his shooting.

As they avenue the theatre, the kids all say they’ve had a abundant time — this actuality their aboriginal basic theatre experience.

There are three cine options in the theatre, alignment from G to a aberrant crank beginning (more acceptable for teens).

The theatre is abutting to an arcade, which stocks amateur for a array of ages. Thomas Adler, 32, and his new helpmate Kimberly, 28, of Gentry, Arkansas, were in Branson for their amusement and chock-full in to comedy at the arcade.

They were accepting an “awesome” time, Kimberly said.

Thomas and Kimberly Adler were arena in the arcade during their amusement in Branson. (Photo: Juliana Goodwin/for the News-Leader)

The prizes in the arcade are acutely altered from added gaming venues: there’s aboriginal art; sports memorabilia; NASCAR collectibles; and abounding items that would address to adolescence and adults. But there are blimp animals, bonbon and such items, too. Points becoming at the arcade are loaded on a agenda and can be adored until the user wants to banknote them in.

This is additionally home to Branson’s alone aliment barter park, although the vendors are actuality switched out at the moment and it is currently not in operation.

Bigfoot is endemic by Darrell Henley, Emma Hamilton and Matt Cook. Cook and Henley, from the Springfield area, accept been ally for 20 years, and Hamilton, an Arkansas native, started alive with them in 2010.

There are affluence of admirable Ozark Mountain scenes on the Bigfoot campaign tour. (Photo: Juliana Goodwin/for the News-Leader)

The men opened Branson Zipline Canopy Tours, which is back Hamilton abutting them; and after the aggregation opened Parakeet Pete’s Waterfront Zipline, Parakeet Pete’s Steampunk Balloon, and Fast Shot Cutting Gallery.

They awash all the attractions in bounce 2016 to focus on Bigfoot on the Strip.

“We capital to accompany article altered to Branson,” said Hamilton.

Want to go?

Bigfoot on the Strip, 3608 Hwy 76, Branson.

Mini golf is $12 per being or $40 for ancestors of four. 8Di cine admission is $8 for one; $12 for two; $24 for four. Yeti Zone is $12; or $40 for a ancestors canyon for four.

Super Sling: $20; Gravity Bomb $12; Action canyon is absolute belfry rides all day: $24

Adventure canyon is $39 per being for all-day comedy which includes absolute admission to belfry rides; Yeti Zone; and 8Di movie.

Discovery Expedition: $38 for adults; $28 for ages 10-16; 9 and adolescent $18.