Forgotten Ghost Town Theme Park on Top of a Mountain

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STORY
In the heart of the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina lies an abandoned Wild West-themed amusement park called Ghost Town in the Sky. Built-in 1961, Ghost Town in the Sky quickly became a beloved destination for families across the country. Visitors were transported to a much simpler time, Wild West America, where cowboys still roamed the streets of the old western town.
The park offered a variety of rides and attractions, including a mountain roller coaster, a haunted mine train, and a chairlift that soared to the top of Buck Mountain, offering breathtaking views of the surrounding area. It was widely popular in the 70s and 80s and at its peak welcomed over half a million visitors each season.
One of the more exhilarating experiences that the park offered where the gunslingers facing off at high noon, in the Main Street of the western town.
But as the years passed, the park began to struggle. Mechanical issues plagued the rides, and attendance dwindled. In 2002, a chairlift incident left several visitors stranded for hours in the blazing sun, the following morning the management of the park announced that the park would be closed indefinitely.
Today, Ghost Town in the Sky remains abandoned, a haunting reminder of a forgotten era.
Join us on a journey to this lost world, where we will explore the ruins of Ghost Town in the Sky and learn about its fascinating history.
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Incredible Abandoned Ghost Town Theme Park on Top of a Mountain
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@karentruesdale8370 7 месяцев назад

My parents took me and my brother there every year when we were kids. We made lots of good memories there. It's a shame to see it deteriorate like this. I wouldn't trade my childhood memories for anything. We grew up in a different world. Thanks for all you do. We can travel around the world thanks to people like you and your friends.

@Thomas-yr9ln 7 месяцев назад

Looks like the type of place you would expect to see Scooby Doo and the gang investigating.

@wadehampton1737 7 месяцев назад

Ha-ha! Yes!

@patriciamariemitchel 7 месяцев назад

✅

@darleneholloway8039 7 месяцев назад

I absolutely loved Ghost Town. This was a family tradition. My parents always took me there, then my children. I am so sad that my grandchildren haven’t been able to enjoy.

@jamajordan5556 7 месяцев назад

Tradition for our family.

@carriehoy6571 7 месяцев назад

THANKYOU FANTASTIC TO RECALL THOSE BY GONE DAYS WHEN FAMILY LIFE, WAS A MANDATORY TIME OF SUMMER VACATIONS, GOD BLESS YOU.😊😂🎉

@Sunshine-kd5cg 7 месяцев назад

Wow lovely

@gloriacgiraldog4644 7 месяцев назад

Espectacular, fascinante, lástima que lo tengan en abandono, ya que las nuevas generaciones, no conoceran como vivia la gente del antiguo oeste, podrian recuperar este parque de diversiones Me encanto, no soy de estados unidos, entonces lo conocemos por las peliculas qué hemos visto. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🥰

@gloriacgiraldog4644 7 месяцев назад

Tienes toda la razón 👍

@JackieFlowers-bz1je 14 дней назад

Im 61 years old I went to ghost town many times in my childhood wonderful memories!!

@wadehampton1737 7 месяцев назад

My wife and I have a good memory of Ghost Town. We wondered what had become of it since it closed. Thanks for taking us back there.

@barbkeil-burton6894 7 месяцев назад

Hi Lesley, Jeremy, & Mureno....😉 The Abandoned Ghost Town Amusement Park In North Carolina, Was Amazing!! Wow, this place was Bought May 1961 from R.B. Coburn who Paid $1 Million Dollars!! New Rides Were Added in 1990`s then the Accident Happened in 2002, Chairlift Stuck!! R.B. Coburn Closed the Amusement Park in 2002!! New Owner 2007, then Closed Again 2009 because of Mudslide!! New Owner was Alaska Presley 2010 until she had Financial Problems & Closed it 2012!! Ghost Town was Renamed To Ghost Town Village, But Permanently Closed!! @34.03 that was called a BlackSmith Shop!! @38.08 the Ceiling Fans hung droopy because of the Heat!! @38.43 the Doors were called Saloon Doors!! Thanks Jeremy😍 for Taking Lesley & Mureno out there!! Have a Safe Trip Home or Next Journey!!😎 Have a Wonderful Evening!!❤ Love Barb from Central Illinois USA❣

@bettygitzke4131 7 месяцев назад

I’ve been to this Park when I was a little girl. The train ride with a full blown Indian attack was so scary as a little girl.

@Adeadoornail7226 7 месяцев назад

It was definitely open for one summer in 2008 because I went there multiple times that summer. The roller coaster was closed at that time though everything else was open, the gun shows, gift shops, and the novelty areas. I knew a gunfighter who worked there he had many stories! There also was a movie filmed there back in 2006-2007 also.

@Lady05V 7 месяцев назад

Oh wow. If I would have known you were this close I would have invited you over for a home cooked meal. Your not 15 -20 minutes from my house.

@karenryan3496 7 месяцев назад

Have been here many times! I loved the chair lift! My favorite ride was the swings. They would swing you out over the edge of the mountain. I’m from Raleigh, NC!

@MKWhitney 7 месяцев назад

Sad that it had to close, it looked like it was a lot of fun, and a beautiful place when in full bloom. I remember Maureno's video of this place. You guys were there for hours and hours, and took a nap even, waiting for time to leave. So glad you're able to share this exploration with us.

@shanekersey1259 29 дней назад

I was a employee at Ghost Town in Maggie valley NC back in my teens. I worked the grounds crew, Donald Kersey was over grounds crew, my father was manager over all the rides on the very top of the mountain

@shanekersey1259 29 дней назад

I was living there on top of the park on a little dirt road beside the top of the park. The red devil roller coaster was awesome. Gun fights and can can girls was great. Rb the owner was a great boss. When storms would pass over lightning looked so close to us, clouds went around our trailer... Contact me guys for more info on park

@debbiebrown3310 7 месяцев назад

So happy to see you in North Carolina. Our mountains are absolutely beautiful. Thank you for all your explorations!! I so enjoy it.❤

@krystalwolfe8090 7 месяцев назад

My husband still remembers going there in the 80s riding the rides and watching the shows. There was a freak storm while they were there. You brought back so many memories

@edwarddray7941 5 месяцев назад

Thank you. My parents took me there when I was a child. Brought back memories.😊

@edwarddray7941 5 месяцев назад

I was there in the 80's

@mariajhanley5172 7 месяцев назад

I wonder if they used the church to host weddings? It would be a great venue and a fun day for the guests too,

@user-ry8dk2xw7x 2 месяца назад

Yes it was used for weddings at one time. Such a gorgeous and romantic view.

@felixbxa 7 месяцев назад

This is really a special place. The landscape and the concept is really unique. I hope the new owners build on the concept

@ron100 7 месяцев назад

Hello Leslie,awesome video. I wish it was still open, it is so cool. Thank you Leslie for yet another amazing video. ❤

@jonathanfreedom1st 7 месяцев назад

Smoky mountains is our home away from home. Cheers

@angelamarie3049 7 месяцев назад

How cool is this. Thank you guys for all yalls hard work just for us.. I'm off work today and have been binge watching yalls videos so I was excited when I got that notification for a new video. Thanks guys!

@dougleach2566 2 месяца назад

A little known fact- They also stored moonshine on one of the rides to age the whiskey after they shut down - a moonshiner’s paradise 👀

@shelleyb3599 7 месяцев назад

Hi Lesley ❤ Love this VIDEO! Never got to Go when it was open sadly . I watched Jeremy’s video several months ago. Was waiting for yours 😊 The walk up that hill had to be ruff! I’ve been all over the mountains in Tennessee & North Carolina! I know it was purchased & hope someone can save it & bring back old time family fun. ❤

@jxchamb 7 месяцев назад

I thought I was losing my mind because I'm watching the beginning of the video and the hike up to the town looked very familiar.

@user-ry8dk2xw7x 2 месяца назад

So close to me. We all loved going to ghost town in the sky.

@dnice3760 4 месяца назад

What a great place! Thank you for taking us there.

@vickywylie5075 7 месяцев назад

Loved watching this video watching from Leeds UK

@melissakuipers7034 7 месяцев назад

Looks like so much fun. Sorry it is now abandoned. Great Explore.

@Tricksofatrade 7 месяцев назад

Burt Reynolds worked here for a while ! Along with the old man with the squirrel that played on Hillbilly Blood 🩸 then they both played in Deliverance. : )) Thanks for the video and hard work.

@berthagreen1620 7 месяцев назад

Wow that was wonderful. It must have been so much fun in its day.

@jamajordan5556 7 месяцев назад

@Bros of Decay Ok the Horror house must have been a seasonal thing. (If you notice the color is not faded like the rest of the park.) It was Not part of the Original Ghost Town. There was never anything scary in the original. (Maybe the gun fights for younger children) My family visited many many times. I only have fond memories of going to Ghost Town in the Sky. Sad to see what it is today. Also there was an incline train that you could take up and down the mountain not just the chair lift. Love watching your video. Weird to see some place that I actually know where it is and have been to. Thank you for visiting Ghost Town in the Sky. Side note it is a mile high.

@VampFaye 7 месяцев назад

We would drive thru Maggie Valley 2x a year on our way from Ohio to GA to visit my grandparents. I went twice as a kid. That roller coaster was the first one my daughter ever rode. She was 4-5 at the time. It awakened her love of coasters and she still loves them at 35. So many memories in this place. I've always hoped that they would actually fix and reopen it. I'm not holding my breath, tho.

@CarolRose2300 7 месяцев назад

Always fantastic!! Thank you!!

@jannyopp1686 7 месяцев назад

You were in my state Leslie! Sure wish I could have met you.

@editheajuarezr7434 7 месяцев назад

I am so glad you are in North Carolina! Thank you for this video, it is very revealing. Take care! God bless y'all!

@saiprom 7 месяцев назад

This place is so cool, it is like a museum of a village, love the theme of western and the decor inside in the buildings, sad to see it got close down and got left behind abandoned, it’s great to explore this place, thank you for sharing

@mariasara7659 7 месяцев назад

Es realmente un lugar especial ,y llenos de recuerdos para la gente de ese lugar . Hermoso el pueblo fantasma y tenebroso !!! Muchas gracias por llevarnos a explorar contigo y maureno . Saludos y abrasos desde muy lejos ,chico ojos de lucero !! ⚘🇨🇱🥰

@annsmith4739 7 месяцев назад

Hi guys ,lv Ann uk 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👋👋👋👋

@davidhibbs6989 7 месяцев назад

OMG I've been there many years ago twice! Great 😃

@jefflawrentz1624 7 месяцев назад

My parents took me and my older brother there years ago. Thanks for a fun explore, Lesley!

@LostBuildings 7 месяцев назад

Wat een super gave video weer Lesley! Je stelt nooit teleur blijf zo doorgaan zie nu alweer uit naar de volgende. :)

@user-oh8ds5ju7h 3 месяца назад

Очень интересно!И мне понравилось,как вы бережно и с уважением относитесь к истории.Молодцы,ребята.

@cocojo242 7 месяцев назад

Thank you guys 👍

@janetwright3638 7 месяцев назад

I love the differents, you always show mansion , im glad you showed the wild west.

@eth39232 7 месяцев назад

I have home movies of my parents and I coming to Ghost Town when I was a little boy in the mid 60's when we lived in Athens, GA. We later moved to Asheville, NC and went back in 1972, and I remember being scared of the chairlift.

@surrealistful 7 месяцев назад

Your voice sweeps me off my feet.

@Rita_Tx 5 месяцев назад

I really enjoy your videos!

@willyegger4488 7 месяцев назад

Hey dear Lesley, that was again such an interesting and amazing explore! I loved watching. A really very imaginative amusement park with quite a big range of different attractions! - The horror house was really creepy. I also loved to see that nice recreation of a western town. There the highlights were certainly the church and the big decorative hall with the beautiful richly curtained and lavishly draped stage and the upright pianos and the chandeliers. Beautiful! - Also the former roller coaster was quite impressive. What a fascinating explore you were doing, when you and Maureno were still together exploring in the USA! Wishing you all the best, peace and kindest regards from Switzerland. - Stay safe and stay cool, bro!

@musicman257 2 месяца назад

Great placd to.go as a kid been there a couple of time in the early 70s

@lljohnson9249 6 месяцев назад

Leslie, Another cool find.

@tracywarbritton2811 7 месяцев назад

Could only imagine the happy times here. Excellent video ❤

@loubowen6649 7 месяцев назад

Hi from N.C. I'm from the coast

@Lily-has-wings 6 месяцев назад

Hi there friend! I am from NC. Born in High Point but spent a lot of my growing up years on the coast in Brunswick Co. where my father was a police chief. I now live in MS. Gosh how I miss living on an island.

@jyothiganesh2622 7 месяцев назад

Hi Lesley. Very interesting video. Something different and fascinating. You took lot of trouble to bring it to us. Thank you for that. I really liked the way you said bye by standing up 😊. Do rake care of yourself

@shirleysmith635 7 месяцев назад

It's truly amazing to see such awesome place to explore it makes you wonder how it would have been when it was in full swing 🎉sad to see these kind of ghost towns thanks for sharing 😊

@MariaSantomarco0508 7 месяцев назад

Incredibile e suggestivo!! Grazie per la condivisione 🔝

@Jollyjilly58 7 месяцев назад

Hi guys loved seeing this place again😊

@krisborja9233 7 месяцев назад

Amazing ❤

@Syn1 7 месяцев назад

This was phenomenal! I love these types of places. We have them in here on Colorado too. I'm going to bet that you slept really well that night after all that mountain climbing. 😅 Thank you for another amazing video!!! ❤

@user-kw2fc8tr1z 15 дней назад

I never got to go there during my childhood while it was open. My dad visited it 5 years before I was born. I have watched the nearly 2 hours long video from Explomo where you do more details of a tour. Sadly since you did your videos criminals have put graffiti on the stage of the silver dollar saloon and in other places all over the park and have damaged the buildings really bad. I wish someone would come along and clean up the place because I think the owners could make money giving guided tours of the place and telling it's history.

@laurielaurie8280 7 месяцев назад

I love Jeremy's channel too. Fun to see you both together exploring :))

@kaurther9321 7 месяцев назад

I want to thank you for your explorer spirit, and allowing us to share your experiences vicariously through you. I’m old now, but started, what is now known as urban in the late 1980s, I’m MUCH older now with limits on my mobility. I enjoy your interpretation of older objects you find but have not seen, while you speculate what the items were used to achieve a task of old… If ever I can be of assistance, I would be happy to help.

@karenpuedesdecirlosnumeros9882 7 месяцев назад

Loved 🎠🎢🎡🙋‍♀️👏

@user-vw4hj7jt6o 3 месяца назад

return in the spring...check out history of grandpa Sutton and distillery ...his history is interesting for a small town.The month of May (2 mo away) is primo time . all is in bloom

@cathytownsend4600 7 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@patriciamariemitchel 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video. It's as close as I want to get to anything like it. Ever. 👀

@joangravel2436 7 месяцев назад

Awesome place thanks

@tester8888 7 месяцев назад

I had always dreamed of getting to go to this park; it seemed so exiting and curious to me. Sadly, it closed before I could. While it makes my heart sad to see it like this; I thank you for making this video and letting me see it. Thank you so much!

@donnabeasley2796 7 месяцев назад

Thank you Lesley

@martinaortega6391 7 месяцев назад

I have been told that here in Fort Worth Tx there are many abandoned places. Guys come here.

@urbanexplorerchannel 7 месяцев назад

Fascinating place!

@Steven-vo8tk 7 месяцев назад

Our family went there in the early 1990's. Our two boys really enjoyed the western town. I remember riding the chair lift up the mountain to the park. Hated to see it close.

@user-ry8dk2xw7x 2 месяца назад

You could get a pic made back in the day dressed up in an outfit like a saloon girl or gunfighter or spanish bandito.😅

@user-vw4hj7jt6o 3 месяца назад

I believe the actor from movie Deliverance did a gig here....

@deannamaude2303 7 месяцев назад

I’m almost positive that I’ve been there when I was between 7&10 yrs old with my parents ❤

@kelvinmbugua5091 7 месяцев назад

Had seen a video of this place from Jeremy Xplores a few months ago. Nice to see you guys doing this exploration together. Good stuff!! Good video!! 🙌👌🔥🎉

@dim4757 7 месяцев назад

Les, you're absolutely adorable! The sign in the saloon that you didn't fully understand ...."use spitoons" meant to spit your chewing tobacco in the containers (spitoons) provided and, "no pinching of dancers" is pretty self explanatory meaning keep your hands to yourself! I always love your videos and you. Stay safe ❤

@lindamartin9615 7 месяцев назад

Great exploration, just in time for Halloween, The haunted house was cool.😅1🤣👻

@ingridmay66 7 месяцев назад

👍👍👍👍👍👍An interesting park.....

@25KSubsWithNoVideosChallenge 7 месяцев назад

Great exploration I always find videos like this very entertaining and interesting

@libbytaylir6492 7 месяцев назад

I Love the Smokey Mountains! Only about 2 hours away from where I live.

@careyh38 7 месяцев назад

Enjoyed the incredible documentary on amusement park 🎢. Love it! I like the pianos that still worked in the saloon. I can imagine the gun fighting. There was a ghost town in Florida my parents went to sadly it is no longer there.

@user-ry8dk2xw7x 2 месяца назад

Yall would have loved the saloon show.pretty ladies really awesome shoot outs........

@lilasphotosandvideos43 7 месяцев назад

An interesting park, it's a shame it was closed down 😐

@cathytownsend4600 7 месяцев назад

You should see Tombstone Az for a real western town! Love you guys! You guys should come West!

@user-vw4hj7jt6o 3 месяца назад

Leslie, it is all a fantasy and props.

@SmokeyMt. 6 дней назад

😂he knows that

@obryan240 7 месяцев назад

I don't remember the proper people showing the haunted house part. Love the fire truck ❤

@michaelcarpenter2498 2 месяца назад

Sad that an amusement park called ghost town is now a ghost town itself. Good vid

@Jojo-gh5vpJosephineDulapAizon 7 месяцев назад

9:12 YES hello good morning Bro fo Decay very nice friend thankyou welcame friend

@jendagesse4524 7 месяцев назад

That looks so creepy

@leeannbailey91 7 месяцев назад

Incredible video!! Thank you bod so much for all your fascinating videos....i get so excited when i get a notification of a new video from you...keep up the great work guys and always stay safe❤

@robertladue7647 7 месяцев назад

That would be a tackle shop for the horses.

@kandycepeterson2482 7 месяцев назад

Tack shop

@user-oh8ds5ju7h 3 месяца назад

Потрясающее место!!

@SmokeyMt. 6 дней назад

😮I live nearby. I have been up there a few times. We always hope that it will open again. Somehow they have it fixed that it won't happen. 😒. I had no idea that you had visited my area. I hope you went to the Biltmore house in Asheville. It is about 30 miles east of there. I would have loved to have met you. ❤❤

@gibsonphilippines4901 7 месяцев назад

wow watching from philippines

@kandycepeterson2482 7 месяцев назад

From wholesome family fun in america, to crime and distrist and drugs and gangs, to a global pandemic and potential nuclear strikes on american soil likely. All the technology we think we are so smart, while we destroy our one means of existsnce. Earth . Man will take out human life, innocent animals and plants and trees, destroy fresh water and fish, and screw up the climate etc. Out of greed and hate. Ty for the trip down memory lane. Life was so much better then. ❤

@Lily-has-wings 6 месяцев назад

Truth. 😢😢