Chad returns to Dollywood with a season pass and a specific mission: NightFlight Expedition, the largest single attraction investment in the park's history, opening later this season. 

But walking through a park you've known since childhood means seeing more than what's there now. 

The Harvey water clock still runs behind the Back Porch Theater, marking time in what used to be the front entrance. Blazing Fury is still running, maintained but changed. The train still follows the same route through terrain that keeps filling in around it. 

And the Chasing Rainbows Museum, one of the most artifact-dense experiences the park ever offered, has given way to something bigger and more cinematic. 

This is Dollywood as a returning visitor sees it, in layers.

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