Celebrating its grand opening on July 3, 1982,[1] it was located beneath a footbridge over the Wolf River Lagoon connecting to the southern tip of Mud Island.

[7] On June 19, 1994, a 19-year-old female Memphis State University student, Shellie M. McKnight, fell while cleaning the exterior windows of one of the cars and died.

[11] Due to its unique nature, only one person, "Paul Jordan, the engineer who built it, was the lone man who could fix it.

Over the decades, he’d fly to Memphis, often in his own plane, land in the Wolf River Harbor, pull right up to the boat ramp at the park and stay a few days to make repairs.

"[2] In an "audit of the monorail by Schwager Davis in 2021, found the 'system was not able to be powered up' so it had to be 'evaluated by visual inspection.