Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in Frontierland is a thundering roller coaster that plunges you into the mid-1800’s Gold Rush. Your car rattles through dark mines, multiple tunnels, across a red-rock prairie, through a 200 foot cursed mountain and into the Tumbleweed ghost town. Not screaming yet? How about swooping beneath a waterfall, dodging an earthquake and rocking through a dinosaur skeleton. The whole family will be breathless after arriving back at the railway station. This three-minute thrill ride was designed by Tony Baxter and opened in 1980.