This is wonderful. I grew up going to the Land of Oz every Summer. It was such a magical, beautiful special place. I'm so grateful that they preserved what is still there. It's too special and unique to have been torn down. I'll never forget those experiences!
Took my kids there in 1977. I've been talking about it ever since then. Loved it. So sad it had to close down. I can't understand why someone else hasn't revived it. Yes, I enjoyed it more than Disney World. It was small, quaint & seemed real to the kids. I hope to take my granddaughter there some time soon on the yearly fall opening.
Not a big deal, but one part they got wrong was their presentation of the timeline of events. The young lady mentions Grover Robbins' death, but he died a few months before the park opened in 1970, not after the 1972 St. Croix murders took place, which seems to be what her narrative implies. Robbins also built the Tweetsie Railroad, and other attractions in the area, including what is now Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. I visited The Land of Oz as a 10-year-old boy in the summer of 1970, within weeks of the grand opening. The park was in its full glory. Visitors were placed into groups to tour the park in a manner similar to the timeline of events in the movie. Our group went down into the basement of Dorothy's house when the tornado approached (the sounds of a tornado were played through loudspeakers). Once the tornado was gone, we emerged from the house - not the same way we went in - into Munchkinland. We started at the beginning of the Yellow Brick Road, and walked with Dorothy as our guide, meeting the Scarecrow and everyone else on our way to the Emerald City, similar to the way she did in the movie. The Yellow Brick Road ended in Emerald City, as it did in the movie. Upon arriving in Emerald City we sat in bleachers and watched a short stage show with Dorothy and her friends, maybe 15 minutes, which basically mimicked the end of the movie...her clicking her heels together, and then riding away with Toto in one of the balloons that were traveling overhead. After the show was over the groups would roam around Emerald City, which was also where the museum and the gift shops and food pavilions were located. I still remember walking through the museum, and viewing with a child's sense of awe, the props they had on display from the 1939 movie. Judy Garland's dress, and a lot of the clothing the Munchkins wore were on display. They also had the black hat the Wicked Witch of the West wore, and the chair she sat in. Visiting The Land of Oz was a wonderful childhood experience I will never forget.
Markslark520 I, also visited the park at the age of 10. I wanted to commend you, on the narrative you provided...well done & well written. I can honestly say that my visit there is one of my fondest, & yes magical, memories as a child.
Markslark520 thank you for sharing your memories !🙂 I had never heard of The Land of Oz until tonight but it has quickly made it to the top of my bucket list! I don’t know how I’m going to make it happen, but I have to find a way! My son has always been in love with The Wizard of Oz. It is something him and I have always shared, if we are going to have a movie night with just the two of us...there is no question what is going to be playing! I came across a little Wizard of Oz themed miniature golf course a few years ago. It’s a couple hours away from where we live in Iowa and we had the opportunity to go. It was awesome! As my boys get older it’s getting harder and harder to find things that we can do together. At 11 and 14, I’m quickly running out of time to make childhood memories with them! Visiting this park with my baby boy would honestly be a magical dream come true! Now to figure out how I’m going to make it happen! 🙂
My Papaw took me to The Land of Oz when I was around 5 or 6. It was awesome and I have thought about it ever since then. I'm going to take my son this year if at all possible.
I visited the park as.a child living close by in Tennessee, I had a couple of souvenirs that have gotten lost or misplaced. I recall it was magical and got air balloon ride was amazing, I now just purchased a lot on beech mountain, this place is beyond beautiful
Dear God, Please Clean up The Land of OZ❤ Please restore it fully ❤ Please give them Enuff Money to keep it up and running and please make sure that the money you give is used for what it should be ❤ Please have the park open from Monday to Friday each and every Week ❤ Please make it a Low price to Inter❤ Thank You God❤❤❤ Amen❤❤❤ We are so Very Grateful God❤❤❤
Brings back childhood memories of a family trip in early 70s to Boone Nc. We went to the park, so fun for my 6 year old mind, since WoO eas still newish to me (the once a year movie on tv.)
My uncle took me, my cousins skiing at beech..One of the very best weekends of my life..they call it the oz run in the winter..I couldn't get there because I couldn't skiwell. Our cabin is literly at the start of the sled riding hill
Thank You so much for posting this. I always wanted to go here and someday I hope to. I did get to go to Dorothy's House in Liberal, Kansas; which is a walk thru Wizard of Oz building and a full size Kansas Dorothy's House that was fun. Chesterton, Indiana is known as Oz and has a yearly Wizard of Oz festival in September.
your film was, by far, the most professional piece I have viewed on this park. I visited the Land of Oz with my little sister & Father in 1979. A magical experience, as a child of 10. Thank you for making this.
+Joshua Micah Yea. Like you get pulled into the story...but if you fall to complete it..you die in it or something. and ghosts end up forever being cuaght beweeten reality and fiction..trying to pull in new victims..hoping for them to take their place
Never in my life ever heard of this famous theme park but it sounds very interesting to visit. It would be nice if they can get some sort of funding from a big organization(s) to make the place bigger with parades, fireworks and shows. That would definitely attract people around the world.
This was cool to watch. Thanks for making and posting this. There was a vhs documentary playing in the wizard of oz museum located up next to dorothy's house in the red barn i saw last weekend while i was in the park. I'd love to find a copy of that in digital form.
Was gonna say, the park looked in remarkably good condition considering it had been abandoned since 1980, but then you say the place has a caretaker and they let people look round, so that explains that. Thanks for posting, always a bit sad to see these once great places close and fall into disrepair.
You just missed the "official" Autumn at Oz party this year. I believe the park can be rented for parties and such as well. The festival was held on the 5th and 6th of October. You can find more information on Autumn at Oz on the Emerald Mountain Properties website
NEWS FLASH - The park will briefly open every Friday in June 2016. Then? I can't see a company leaving the park untouched, if only for liability reasons. My question is - why did your questions "remain unanswered?" If you could not find a supervisor during your visit, could you not call later and ask?
The Emerald City unfortunately did burn down at the end of 1975. The original Emerald City was right through the gates you see me walk through at the very end of the video segment. It's now basically a housing development making the entrance to Oz pretty disappointing.
The park will briefly open every Friday in June 2016. Then? I can't see a company leaving the park untouched, if only for liability reasons. My question is - why did your questions "remain unanswered?" If you could not find a supervisor during your visit, could you not call later and ask?
+LoyalTideFan a little bit ofmystery always make a storytelling look great. it gives you excitement and the urges to dig it by yourself hence make this vid more memorable. that's the reason i guess.. or maybe they're just too dumb to realizes that they can ask the supervisor
Hey there, we actually did speak to a representative from Emerald Mountain Properties - briefly over email. However when we requested an interview their replies were spotty and eventually unresponsive. They were originally supposed to escort us to the park on one of the days we filmed there, but at the last minute they were unavailable. However, this was several years ago and they may be under new management today. We have not followed up any further.
Even before this it's hasn't been "abandoned" since 1990. They do Autumn At Oz there every first weekend of October, attracting thousands. You can also rent Dorothy's house, and rent for parties, weddings, etc. They've also opened every Friday in June now for a few years, it's just now gotten national news. Mislabeling of it being "abandoned" is why it gets broken into. It has security cams too. It's a "privately owned gardens" now.
We asked permission, however, there is nothing stopping you from just driving up and walking through, no gates or anything really (depending on which way you go up).
Wow this was a really great piece. I wld love to see you two do more of these.its sad that adam the woo seems to corner the market on abandoned place walk thrus he is so irreverent and irritating tht if i want to aatch i have to do my own research so u can just mute the video ...grrr
"We're going to call this a documentary and video about 3 minutes worth of this park. Then we'll tell you we've set out to find the answers to a ton of questions we have, none of which we'll list. Oh, and at the end we'll cover up the fact that we put exactly 0.0% effort into this thing by telling you we didn't answer any of the supposed questions we had because we tried to call one dude on a Sunday and he didn't answer." Thanks for revealing a new dystopian theme park that I didn't know existed but please, stop parading this garbage around like it's a documentary. Call it what it was for you, a geek out experience that you took some video of.
it doesn't have to "just sit there". knock it down. this movie is old. not many people care about it anymore. it seems it'd be a waste of time and effort trying to revive or run this stupid place. move on.
As a kid, I was able to have the good fortune to go there. It was great!!
This is wonderful. I grew up going to the Land of Oz every Summer. It was such a magical, beautiful special place. I'm so grateful that they preserved what is still there. It's too special and unique to have been torn down. I'll never forget those experiences!
Took my kids there in 1977. I've been talking about it ever since then. Loved it. So sad it had to close down. I can't understand why someone else hasn't revived it. Yes, I enjoyed it more than Disney World. It was small, quaint & seemed real to the kids. I hope to take my granddaughter there some time soon on the yearly fall opening.
well your wrong. Disney is better.😬
+Charlie Gerrard *you're
@@chazzplayz9376 They weren't stating a fact, they said that THEY enjoyed it more than Disney. They're entitled to their own opinion Chazz -_-
Heading up there this September for the Autumn at Oz event.
Not a big deal, but one part they got wrong was their presentation of the timeline of events. The young lady mentions Grover Robbins' death, but he died a few months before the park opened in 1970, not after the 1972 St. Croix murders took place, which seems to be what her narrative implies. Robbins also built the Tweetsie Railroad, and other attractions in the area, including what is now Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
I visited The Land of Oz as a 10-year-old boy in the summer of 1970, within weeks of the grand opening. The park was in its full glory. Visitors were placed into groups to tour the park in a manner similar to the timeline of events in the movie. Our group went down into the basement of Dorothy's house when the tornado approached (the sounds of a tornado were played through loudspeakers). Once the tornado was gone, we emerged from the house - not the same way we went in - into Munchkinland. We started at the beginning of the Yellow Brick Road, and walked with Dorothy as our guide, meeting the Scarecrow and everyone else on our way to the Emerald City, similar to the way she did in the movie. The Yellow Brick Road ended in Emerald City, as it did in the movie. Upon arriving in Emerald City we sat in bleachers and watched a short stage show with Dorothy and her friends, maybe 15 minutes, which basically mimicked the end of the movie...her clicking her heels together, and then riding away with Toto in one of the balloons that were traveling overhead. After the show was over the groups would roam around Emerald City, which was also where the museum and the gift shops and food pavilions were located. I still remember walking through the museum, and viewing with a child's sense of awe, the props they had on display from the 1939 movie. Judy Garland's dress, and a lot of the clothing the Munchkins wore were on display. They also had the black hat the Wicked Witch of the West wore, and the chair she sat in. Visiting The Land of Oz was a wonderful childhood experience I will never forget.
Markslark520 I, also visited the park at the age of 10. I wanted to commend you, on the narrative you provided...well done & well written. I can honestly say that my visit there is one of my fondest, & yes magical, memories as a child.
Markslark520 thank you for sharing your memories !🙂 I had never heard of The Land of Oz until tonight but it has quickly made it to the top of my bucket list! I don’t know how I’m going to make it happen, but I have to find a way! My son has always been in love with The Wizard of Oz. It is something him and I have always shared, if we are going to have a movie night with just the two of us...there is no question what is going to be playing! I came across a little Wizard of Oz themed miniature golf course a few years ago. It’s a couple hours away from where we live in Iowa and we had the opportunity to go. It was awesome! As my boys get older it’s getting harder and harder to find things that we can do together. At 11 and 14, I’m quickly running out of time to make childhood memories with them! Visiting this park with my baby boy would honestly be a magical dream come true! Now to figure out how I’m going to make it happen! 🙂
My Papaw took me to The Land of Oz when I was around 5 or 6. It was awesome and I have thought about it ever since then. I'm going to take my son this year if at all possible.
I visited the park as.a child living close by in Tennessee, I had a couple of souvenirs that have gotten lost or misplaced. I recall it was magical and got air balloon ride was amazing, I now just purchased a lot on beech mountain, this place is beyond beautiful
I want to go there. I have so many memory's of the wizard of oz as a child. Going to this would be a dream come true.
God bless this land and this mountain!! Where I am from!
Such a fun park! I am so glad we went last year. We tried to get tickets the previous year but they sold out so quickly!
I remember my mom and dad to me there when I was little. It was so awesome. I wish it had never closed.
Thanks , Jessie and Sam ! Wonderful job ! Never knew this even existed !
Dear God,
Please Clean up The Land of OZ❤
Please restore it fully ❤
Please give them Enuff Money to keep it up and running and please make sure that the money you give is used for what it should be ❤
Please have the park open from Monday to Friday each and every Week ❤
Please make it a Low price to Inter❤
Thank You God❤❤❤
Amen❤❤❤
We are so Very Grateful God❤❤❤
Brings back childhood memories of a family trip in early 70s to Boone Nc. We went to the park, so fun for my 6 year old mind, since WoO eas still newish to me (the once a year movie on tv.)
well at least it hasnt stayed abandoned forever its good to see them re open the place 1 week end a year so people can re live their memories
I'd totally love to shoot an Oz film there...how awesome that it's still there. I might have to go to North Carolina! :D
My uncle took me, my cousins skiing at beech..One of the very best weekends of my life..they call it the oz run in the winter..I couldn't get there because I couldn't skiwell. Our cabin is literly at the start of the sled riding hill
Awesome love this movie 👍👍👍👍👍
What a warm, affectionate, nostalgic video. Made me smile.Well done!
Thank You so much for posting this. I always wanted to go here and someday I hope to. I did get to go to Dorothy's House in Liberal, Kansas; which is a walk thru Wizard of Oz building and a full size Kansas Dorothy's House that was fun. Chesterton, Indiana is known as Oz and has a yearly Wizard of Oz festival in September.
your film was, by far, the most professional piece I have viewed on this park. I visited the Land of Oz with my little sister & Father in 1979. A magical experience, as a child of 10. Thank you for making this.
Thanks for such a great piece, keep up the good work.
This place would make for a great creepypasta.
+Joshua Micah Yea.
Like you get pulled into the story...but if you fall to complete it..you die in it or something. and ghosts end up forever being cuaght beweeten reality and fiction..trying to pull in new victims..hoping for them to take their place
+Joshua Micah There is; search for the "Yellow Brick Road" creepypasta.
i went there 6 or 7 times every year since i was 5 to 13 (im 15 and i loved its just so creative)
can't wait to see how it goes when it opens back up this fall!
Great job guys !
great video
Great video! This short feature was about as marvelous as the land of Oz! Very well shot and put together!
Fred Pfohl, was my magestic gate!!
Kind of like Guntown Mountain near Bowling Green, KY. Sad because this too was left to rot away.
Never in my life ever heard of this famous theme park but it sounds very interesting to visit. It would be nice if they can get some sort of funding from a big organization(s) to make the place bigger with parades, fireworks and shows. That would definitely attract people around the world.
Great video, it's so sad that we let so many of these places, just close up.
The bricks on the yellow brick road are the wrong way round. They're length ways instead of going from left to right as in the movie...
I live in Greensboro - That was kind of you two to make this nice video.
This was cool to watch. Thanks for making and posting this. There was a vhs documentary playing in the wizard of oz museum located up next to dorothy's house in the red barn i saw last weekend while i was in the park. I'd love to find a copy of that in digital form.
wish you luck in future projects :)
Was gonna say, the park looked in remarkably good condition considering it had been abandoned since 1980, but then you say the place has a caretaker and they let people look round, so that explains that. Thanks for posting, always a bit sad to see these once great places close and fall into disrepair.
You just missed the "official" Autumn at Oz party this year. I believe the park can be rented for parties and such as well. The festival was held on the 5th and 6th of October. You can find more information on Autumn at Oz on the Emerald Mountain Properties website
Good video
NEWS FLASH - The park will briefly open every Friday in June 2016. Then? I can't see a company leaving the park untouched, if only for liability reasons.
My question is - why did your questions "remain unanswered?" If you could not find a supervisor during your visit, could you not call later and ask?
Cool. Set out to get some answers, but didn't get any. My life is richer now, after watching this documentary :P.
This isn't abandoned it opens once or twice a year.but know it opens every Friday in June I think.
Now*
when is the park open again and how do we find out about this? Thanks for the post great video.
The Emerald City unfortunately did burn down at the end of 1975. The original Emerald City was right through the gates you see me walk through at the very end of the video segment. It's now basically a housing development making the entrance to Oz pretty disappointing.
omg posted on my birthday :DD
Freaking strange to see this after reading the creepypasta story
Yea, there is 3, look up CreepyMcPasta land of oz on youtube.
Heh my school is going to be doing a theater performance of it, I will never be able to take it seriously. ^^
Sam Smith are you replying to yourself?
2:04 I didn't know Sid and Marty Kroft lived in Oz!
It's not abondoned. They open it every Friday until June 2016
Its still open and not abandoned. Its just opened seasonally.
and this abandoned park was created 3 year after my mom was born :)
The park will briefly open every Friday in June 2016. Then? I can't see a company leaving the park untouched, if only for liability reasons. My question is - why did your questions "remain unanswered?" If you could not find a supervisor during your visit, could you not call later and ask?
+LoyalTideFan a little bit ofmystery always make a storytelling look great. it gives you excitement and the urges to dig it by yourself hence make this vid more memorable. that's the reason i guess..
or maybe they're just too dumb to realizes that they can ask the supervisor
Hey there, we actually did speak to a representative from Emerald Mountain Properties - briefly over email. However when we requested an interview their replies were spotty and eventually unresponsive. They were originally supposed to escort us to the park on one of the days we filmed there, but at the last minute they were unavailable. However, this was several years ago and they may be under new management today. We have not followed up any further.
***** lol. thanks for that explanation. now the riddle had finally been answered
btw, im sorry if my comment sound harsh at the end.
Even before this it's hasn't been "abandoned" since 1990. They do Autumn At Oz there every first weekend of October, attracting thousands. You can also rent Dorothy's house, and rent for parties, weddings, etc. They've also opened every Friday in June now for a few years, it's just now gotten national news. Mislabeling of it being "abandoned" is why it gets broken into. It has security cams too. It's a "privately owned gardens" now.
This "park" displaced locals, treated them like garbage..its suspected some may have done some damage to it (arson) in its later years.
We asked permission, however, there is nothing stopping you from just driving up and walking through, no gates or anything really (depending on which way you go up).
Neat ^w^
...DONT walk the road...
More like Return to Oz.
great
"I want to go to there" -Liz Lemon
I live in NC!
Wow this was a really great piece. I wld love to see you two do more of these.its sad that adam the woo seems to corner the market on abandoned place walk thrus he is so irreverent and irritating tht if i want to aatch i have to do my own research so u can just mute the video ...grrr
From another video someone had posted on UA-cam, it was their home video. We messaged them and asked for permission to use it.
like the return to oz broken but not repairable
Who came here from exploring with Josh?
Me XD
Since the park reopened like you guys mentioned, is it still open?
+Sean Patchen (MrSean64) One weekend per year, in October.
+Laura Mcconnell We actually stayed here as kids
"We're going to call this a documentary and video about 3 minutes worth of this park. Then we'll tell you we've set out to find the answers to a ton of questions we have, none of which we'll list. Oh, and at the end we'll cover up the fact that we put exactly 0.0% effort into this thing by telling you we didn't answer any of the supposed questions we had because we tried to call one dude on a Sunday and he didn't answer." Thanks for revealing a new dystopian theme park that I didn't know existed but please, stop parading this garbage around like it's a documentary. Call it what it was for you, a geek out experience that you took some video of.
+Benjamin Henry I see you.
Tht should say :so I can just mute the audio.
5:10 in... weeping angel in Oz.. go figure! lmao
are you able to explore, or did you ask permission?
so what is the update with this story? is it still open at times? can i come down from massachusetts to visit this place? ty for any response.....
Frank Machado you can schedule your own visit, and there's also Autumn at Oz every year.
When was this made?
i want to help rebuild the park and make it beeter
FLAT EARTH .. MOUNT MERU AT THE CENTER HOLE GREEN AURORA LIGHTS .. ARE THE EMERALD CITY...
it is open the park my dad works there he is the lion
James and John's Science and Stuff Can he get me tickets lol? It says currently sold out and I'm visiting next week! Seriously
Its Not Abandoned..
I learned nothing.
It's not abandoned!!!!!
I want those 7 minutes back. Boooooring
It's not abandoned
Trespassing
@EndlessMike me
meh.
it doesn't have to "just sit there". knock it down. this movie is old. not many people care about it anymore. it seems it'd be a waste of time and effort trying to revive or run this stupid place. move on.