FRONTIER LAND CHEROKEE NORTH CAROLINA TKT STUBS- OPENED 1964 CLOSED 1982–RARE for Sale

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FRONTIER LAND CHEROKEE NORTH CAROLINA TKT STUBS- OPENED 1964 CLOSED 1982–RARE For Sale

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FRONTIER LAND CHEROKEE NORTH CAROLINA TKT STUBS- OPENED 1964 CLOSED 1982–RARE:
$12.00

Frontier Land-Cherokee

When Frontier Land opened in 1964, a day’s visit to the 140-acre attraction in Cherokee cost just $2 per adult and $1 per child. For that pittance, visitors were transported back to the Old West on a grand scale. Arriving at the park via a wood-burning steam train or a gondola, they’d scatter out to explore Frontier Land’s three main areas: Indian Territory, with more than 20 Native American structures and performances of “war dances,” to boot; Fort Cherokee, a huge replica of a frontier stockade; and Deadwood Gulch, a full mock-up of a hardscrabble 1860s Western town.

If the lineup sounds familiar, that’s true in part because Frontier Land was the brainchild R.B. Coburn, who’d developed Ghost Town in the Sky just a few years earlier. His recipe for theme park success here also included helpful assists from stars of the big screen and the tube, who paid regular showcase visits. For the entirety of the grand opening week,Bonanzamain player Dan Blocker (aka Hoss Cartwright) was there to help fend off the requisite bank robbers and pesky natives.

The fervor for Frontier Land tapered off over the years, and in 1983, its owners transitioned it into Water World, a water amusement park (with unmistakable Western touches) that had a couple of hot summers but threw in the towel in 1986. The site of the park was to have a most-fortuitous future, however: since 1997, it’s been home to the money-minting Harrah’s Cherokee Casino.