Скачать или смотреть Abandoned Theme Park Ghost Town Village - Maggie Valley, North Carolina

This place was in it's day was a one of a kind amusement park on top of a mountain. It had a chair lift to the top of the mountain. The park was western themed that had staged gun flights every hour and roll coaters. Is it cursed? You tell me.
Read the history of it, it's crazy.

Known as Ghost Town in the Sky, this abandoned Wild West-themed amusement park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, has seen as many ups and downs over the decades as its old roller coaster.
In 1960, R.B. Coburn, a Virginia-born businessman, purchased Buck Mountain, a mountaintop site towards the bottom of the Great Smoky Mountains, with grand plans to build his own theme park. The site overlooked the town of Maggie Valley, North Carolina.
More than 200 local workers were hired to build around 40 life-sized replica Wild West-style buildings inspired by Coburn's visits to other American ghost towns. The buildings perched right on the mountain's peak would eventually make up the park’s main attraction, known as Old West.
Ghost Town was created by former Disney designer Russell Pearson and reportedly cost around $1 million (£757,000) to build. According to Abandoned Southeast, the park spanned roughly 120,000 square feet (11,148 sqm) of land. Around 200,000 feet (61,000m) of plywood, 300,000 (91,400m) feet of lumber and 20,000 pounds (9,000kg) of nails were used to construct the old-fashioned buildings.
The park opened its doors to the public in 1961 and was immediately a huge success. It was promoted as “North Carolina’s mile-high theme park” and became one of the state's most popular and visited attractions throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.
To visit the park, passengers had to board a double incline railway to the top of Buck Mountain. The exciting journey included multiple slopes towards the peak, varying from 30 to 77 degrees in steepness, and afforded picturesque views overlooking Maggie Valley.
In 1962, Coburn installed a two-seater chairlift built parallel to the incline railway to take even more visitors up to Ghost's Town's entrance. It reportedly moved at a rate of 310 feet (94m) per minute and could transport up to 1,200 visitors per hour.
At the time, the impressive chairlift, which climbed more than 1,250 feet (381m), was apparently North Carolina's longest. Sadly as the years passed, like the rest of the park, the chairlift suffered from more and more problems and began to break down.
Ghost Town comprised of several different towns located at different heights of the mountain. They included Mining Town, Mountain Town, Indian Village and Old West. Pictured are the buildings located on the main street of Old West which are still pretty well preserved.
At the height of its popularity, Ghost Town attracted thousands of guests every year. In the early 1970s, the park welcomed 400,000 visitors during its peak seasons, from families to Wild West enthusiasts.
Located at the heart of Ghost Town was the theme park’s most popular spot, Old West. The town, which is still mostly intact, included a replica bank, saloons, a church, jail and more to re-create an authentic Wild West experience for guests.
A lot of the action happened on the town’s main street. Visitors could live out their Wild West dreams and catch a live country music show at the Red Dog Saloon or enjoy can-can dancers putting on a performance at the Silver Dollar.
The park was also famous for its live shoot-outs which were staged every hour in the middle of Old West's main street. Visitors would line up on the sidewalk for the best view of all the action. More recently, the abandoned Western town has been used as a location for a number of films such as Dean Teaster's Ghost Town (2007), Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (2008) and Ringside Rosary (2010).
Ghost Town also had its fair share of amusement rides which were added over the years. They included the park’s famous Red Devil coaster (later re-named Cliffhanger), Casino, bumper cars and Sea Dragon.
The Red Devil coaster, one of Ghost Town's main attractions, opened in 1988. Unusually, the steel coaster's boarding station was at the top of a hill. It then rolled around a 90-degree curve into the main drop and an inverted loop.
Unfortunately under Coburn’s ownership, the park reportedly suffered from poor maintenance and bad management which eventually led to its downfall. Although it's claimed that Coburn spent thousands of dollars trying to maintain the park, Ghost Town's attractions would regularly break down.
The chairlift and incline railway especially needed constant and expensive maintenance. In 2002, things went from bad to worse when the chairlift malfunctioned and trapped passengers, leaving them stranded. A few days later, Coburn closed the park for good and put it up for sale.
But it's not the end for Ghost Town. A local paper wrote about plans for a Wild West show, the restoration of the chairlift and a program for weddings. Only time will tell whether the park will be restored to its glory days again.