Adventure Quest in Pigeon Forge Partially Opened for Visitors

Tourists and locals are starting to find Adventure Quest, an indoor family attraction that includes minature golf, a lazer maze and mirror maze.

Adventure Quest, located in in what used to be a helicopter museum on the Parkway, opened the lower level this month. The upstairs portion will not be completed until mid-August followed by a test walk-through in September, according to Ned Vickers, partial owner of the Adventure Quest Entertainment Group.

"Once the facility is completed we will have five attractions in total," Vickers said.
Currently three of the five are completed, with the Time Twister still in the works. Information on the fifth attraction isn't being released yet, Vickers said.

"The fourth bay (where the fifth attraction will likely be placed) has not even been started yet, but we hope to have it done by the first of the year," he said.

For now visitors have Pirate Golf decorated in neon lighting, with a pirate ship, a huge skull and interactive features that react to a putter's score.

Pirate Golf resembles a tropical island in which pirates had just landed.

The Vault takes visitors on a laser quest, where the goal is to contort one's body so as to not touch the lasers. Each time a laser is touched an alarm goes off.

In the Mirror Maze one has to try and find the correct route to the outside, which is not easy. There is an LED light display, which is green power friendly and infared cameras that pick up a person's movement.

"I know the way out, because I've been through here so many times; repairs are always needed for something," Vickers said.

Before entering the maze visitors are given plastic gloves so that they can feel the mirrors as they walk through. Gloves also keep the mirrors clean and other guests from figuring the way out easily.

Toward the end of the maze a type of forest is being constructed which Vickers hopes to have completed in a few weeks.

"We have the painter here every night working until 2 a.m.," he said.

The Hurricane Simulator is in a yellow booth, which, when activated, uses high wind pressure to show what it feels like to be in a hurricane. The simulator starts off with a small wind.

Time Twister, to be located on the upper level of the facility, is a interactive area where all the stations are controlled by several large units.

There is a distortion room where visitors can see what their companions look like in a smaller version, and a sound sensitive area where there is an active light display in which visitors use controls according to the beats of the music and lights.

"It's a lot like Guitar Hero," Vickers said.

Work on the outside of the building is still being done as well, but Vickers hopes to have all that completed within the next few weeks.

The 28,000-square-foot area building renovation cost $12.4 million, he said, which includes land. Adventure Quest is located next to the Flying Horse restaurant.

Information courtesy of The Mountain Press