Mountaineer at Golden Gardens

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Golden Gardens

After four years of constant tweaking and extreme nitpicking, Golden Gardens is finally ready to be showed off. What started as a small park, inspired by Alton Towers and Knoebels, has evolved into one of the largest projects I have ever done, as well as one of the largest Nolimits Parks to date. I am extremely excited to release content from inside the park as it has been under wraps for years to date. I hope you all enjoy Golden Gardens as much as I did working on it.

Park History

Robert Golden, who worked on Wall Street as a stock broker for 30 years, decided to retire and move away from the bustling streets of Manhattan. He had been living in multiple vacation homes throughout the eastern seaboard, but finally settled down in a newly constructed estate located in the New York woodlands. Nestled quietly in a valley, with over 400 acres of land to his name, Mr. Golden began to explore various entertainment options to bring to his estate. In 1970, Golden announced the opening of Golden Gardens, an outdoors family entertainment complex, located right in his own backyard.

Golden Gardens was known for many years as a quiet outdoors retreat for families featuring hiking trails, waterways and zip lines. Once Golden passed away in 1977, his gardens went through years of disrepair. It sat without a true owner due to legal troubles. In 1985, it was finally fully inherited by his oldest son Lucas Golden. After his father's death, Lucas set out to fulfill his father's dream, which was to provide a world class destination right in his own backyard.

Lucas added new carnival rides and arcade games, along with the park's first roller coaster in 1986. After years of being a local destination and a smaller thrill park, Golden wanted to finally go big. The park held a major announcement in Summer 2009, and it was announced that a new ten year, $250M plan to redevelop the gardens would start for the 2010 season. This would include record breaking roller coasters and new infrastructure. With the 10 year plan wrapping up, Golden Gardens has established itself as a world class destination for families and thrill junkies alike.

Ride History

In 1994, Vekoma built the park’s first family coaster. Opening as Iron Horse, this mine train features two lift hills, and multiple wave turns. It is currently the oldest operating roller coaster at the park and is a family favorite.

The 2004 season was a splash at Golden Gardens as the park added the Appalachian Falls boat ride. Giving riders a splash of wilderness.

For 2005, Great Coasters International constructed the Pioneer. A twister design with pops of airtime and plenty of lateral forces that’ll send you buckling around form start to stop. Enjoy a view of the park’s skyline atop the panoramic lift hill.

In 2009, the Gardens saw a new family addition that was built by Gerstlauer. Fireflier, which is a standard family 360 model coaster. The ride is situated in the Appalachian Village section of the park.

In 2011, B&M was brought in to build the Appalachian Flyer, themed around vintage stunt flight. A wing coaster that features 5 inversions and a top speed of 62mph. This one is a big hit with many of our guests, be sure to get in line quickly before the grounds get busy!

In 2013, Premier Rides made its debut at the park with the introduction of Water Snake, a Skyrocket II model, the parks first and only launch coaster to date, located on the Leiwich River in the Wilderness Trail section.

For the 2016 season, it was announced that Rocky Mountain Construction would be making its way to the park to build The Mountaineer. It is the tallest, fastest, and the steepest hybrid roller coaster on the planet, featuring a 213ft lift, 91° drop, speeds of 78mph, and 3 inversions. Inspired by the very mountains that surround it, the ride is truly a one of a kind experience and won best new ride of the year in 2016.

In 2018, the park went even bigger, building their newest coaster with a 220ft lift. River Rampage is a huge Mega Coaster from Intamin which features heart pumping twists, turns and plenty of airtime. As you crest the top of the lift you’ll have the best view of the wilderness surrounding the park. Make sure you hang on for those rapid transitions!

For 2020, the park is in the final year of its 10 year revitalization plan and celebrating its 50th anniversary. Announcing Octane, the parks largest investment to date, and the tallest and the fastest giga coaster in the world! At 96mph and a staggering 330ft drop, fuel your inner speed demon and race to new heights, only at Golden Gardens.

Sam I got your email. Check your PM

Hey MrRC. I'm Having difficulty as well for getting the triple launch to work. I sent you an email with the ride. Hopefully you can help me out.

I've been trying to record videos using the in-game video recorder, but whenever I go to view the .mov file, it's only audio. I've tried adjusting the video export settings within the setup menu, and still no luck. Any advice?

@AndyW check your PM

Hello roro,
i have not seen this downloads before because noscript was active. Now i see the links, thank you for it. Will the update work without internet connection during running update exe-file? I do not need to buy upgrade to professional becaue i have already purchased the professional version.

Best regards

^^ The latest update can be found and downloaded here.

AndyW posted on January 17th, 2020

Hello,
it seems that i need an update, i have only normal video formats listed up to 3840*2160. But on the nolimits homepage i cannot find a link for updates. How do i get the latest update? I have the professional version, but the PC for it is not connected with the internet. For safety reasons i use a mini PC with Linux for internet. I hope i need not to buy nolimits again to get the actual version and it is fully compatible with parks made with older versions of NoLimits 2.

Best regards

You can just purchase the upgrade to pro. That's what I did 3 years ago. All your parks will still work.

We just got 2 perfect 8k 360 degree POVs, whatever machine you have, this lets you experience this fantastic ride closer than ever and still enjoy great performance. I'm thankful Joseph took the time to additionally release these in an insane quality.
After years of work put into this all he gets to hear is people demanding more? Let's try to be better than that.

I really enjoyed the newly released Villain route, Joseph! I'm still in absolute awe at this project, its so well rounded off, I still get goosebumps every time when the ride wraps up and pulls back into the station! Enjoying this on my phone in VR was a great experience!

i remember asking about releasing it a while back, he said something along the lines of, it cant be released do to limitations and special effects, etc iirc. it would be nice to play it but if it cant be released, it cant.

warnerg0211 posted on December 28th, 2019

anyone know if the issues with broken blocks will also be fixed with phase 4?

I will try to have it fixed.

LouiR posted on December 22nd, 2019

on remnant would u be able to make it so if two trains were on the same block then one would just wait and then carry on instead of having to restart it and also is there anyway you could bring in a mack spinning coaster i think it would be cool over the lake

There is already a spinning coaster in the park, also a ride over the lake would ruin the entire design and shape of the park.

Kinda defeats the point of the sim though. We don’t use No Limits because we want to watch something on youtube.

It makes the big roundups a bit of a joke tbh, when most of the winning videos are youtube only showcases. It’s been like this for a number of years, so many of the winning parks never see the light of day.

JP has used this thread to create interest in this ride, and clearly people are invested in seeing the finished product. And there’s a big difference between seeing something in a youtube video and seeing it in the Sim.

Because it's complex?

There's literally nothing else in the ride you would possibly want to see that hasn't been shown in a video. It's Joseph's choice whether or not he wants to release it, and I can guarantee constant whining about it does not make him want to. Be happy for what you're given and appreciate the hard work that went into it, whether or not you can download it.

Hello,
it seems that i need an update, i have only normal video formats listed up to 3840*2160. But on the nolimits homepage i cannot find a link for updates. How do i get the latest update? I have the professional version, but the PC for it is not connected with the internet. For safety reasons i use a mini PC with Linux for internet. I hope i need not to buy nolimits again to get the actual version and it is fully compatible with parks made with older versions of NoLimits 2.

Best regards

@ AndyW go to SETUP > VIDEO EXPORT > Drop downmenu Preset > on the bottomside of that list u find 360 export setting (I have a PRO version) don't know if in STANDARD version that 360 option is.

Hello,
i have seen that JP has made 360° Videos from his coaster "(1/16/20) 360° POVs! - The [OMITTED] Misadventures of Cherry Bomb". But i cannot find an option in the video export settings for 360° videos. Does Nolimit has an option to export a 360° Video? If you have a very big park, framerate becomes low and a video is the only way to get constant framerates. With a 360° video it can be interesting for use with VR glasses. Or has JP used a special tool to make 360° videos? Of coarse a 360° video will be only 2D, not 3D (for 3D, pictures must be calculated directly by PC), but you can look around during ride.

Best regards