Frontier Town Abandoned - North Hudson, NY

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Frontier Town was a popular Western theme park in upstate New York that fell into abandon in 1998 after attempts to revive the popular park of the 60's and 70's failed. Frontier Town was the lifeblood of North Hudson, N.Y.'s economy. Now, like much of the town, it's empty, with only fond memories remaining.
Frontier Town, a Wild West theme park, once attracted families from all across the country. It was very popular in the 1960's and early 70's when the Western genre was at it's peak, with shows like Gunsmoke, Bonanza, High Chaparral and others ruling the air waves. During it's best years, more than 3,000 cars may have filled the parking lot on a weekend.
Visitors filled up the town's motel rooms. When the day ended, the popular theme park tourists dined at one of several restaurants in town.
People from all over the USA have fond memories of visiting the park during their childhood, watching actors re-enact cowboy shootouts or bank robberies. Families rode in stagecoaches, and trains shuttled visitors throughout the park.
Some of the top attractions were the horse races, gunfights and performances held in a rodeo arena, where the grandstands still remain today, decaying into the surroundings.
Buildings have long since collapsed due to nature taking it's toll and moss covers the Western style chapel and adjacent buildings.
If you visit Frontier Town today, you won't hear the sound of happy kids, stagecoaches or staged "gunfights". All you will hear are the sad and haunting sounds of birds and the wind blowing through the trees. Like the fabled ghost towns of the wild west, this is all that remains and someday will be gone forever.
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@buddyfafard8846 2 жыл бұрын

Great nostalgic video. Was there in the 60's, school field trip. I still have a teepee canoe souvenir.

@juliemartell6904 5 ай бұрын

WOW! Went here when I was around 8 years old. Have pics of my Uncle, sister, and I on the back of a horse and wagon statue. I don't remember it being that fun, but we didn't have Disney World up North.

@johnnytoobad7785 3 жыл бұрын

I went here on my return trip from my Uncle's place near Saranac Lake in 1966. I got a kick out of all the role playing reinactors. It was quite the attraction back then.

@juliemartell6904 5 ай бұрын

My parents took us there in the mid 70's. Not sure if it was quite as fun as when it first opened. I liked Story Town better.

@lorettapemberton7693 3 жыл бұрын

I worked there as a trick rider in the 90’s I also played the “wounded lady” and for fun rode in some raids and the Calvary was fun! You shown where’ we lived .. you said welcome to the condo!!!! It was a little cabin within the park! Also the place with the fancy curtain hanging up in it was where they took old time pictures . Hence a changing room and the dark room.. One summer we lived in the big brown house across from the old turn styles.. ( they had never used that entrance when I was there). Another simmer we stayed up at the old hotel ... not the nice one either!🤣 thank you for taking me back through memory lane!

@lawrencekedgettjr2364 3 жыл бұрын

I went there in 78 I was 10 yrs old at the time ,, it’s a shame to see it run down like this ,,,,

@theresamoore7634 Жыл бұрын

So sad to let it go like that , It use to be a wonderful place to go , I went there many times in the summer & had a great time there !! Thanks for the video. Take care 💗

@SeveredSoundsOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

My mother’s cousin owned this place! ❤️

@Apolyion 7 жыл бұрын

I was there a number of years back for the auction. Everything from the train and railroad tracks to the fence that surrounded the parking lot was for sale. I bought the largest of 4 steers horns that were featured above the bar in the saloon. Now they proudly hang above my bar. There's a word for love of places like this- "kenopsia".

@larryrobinson6914 2 жыл бұрын

Great place. Just sad now

@charlielaudico3523 4 жыл бұрын

My dad took the family there in the 1960s ,we liked it so much we went every year until we got to old!

@hobbygamer6220 4 жыл бұрын

you mean until you died ? when is one TOO OLD for this sort of thing ? nothing else makes SENSE ! 😳 ???

@ryancrochiere7502 8 жыл бұрын

I loved this place as a kid. How sad to see it it ruin.

@MrBruneye 8 жыл бұрын

I went here with my family in July or August ,1966, 50 years ago. How sad to see it in this condition.

@robertprata9451 8 жыл бұрын

I have old photos of this place with me as a kid

@juliemartell6904 5 ай бұрын

Me too - have to dig them out of my parent's photo album.

@roydineen8768 8 жыл бұрын

I took my son there to frontier town. it seem like it was a week ago or so. I remember it was a hot day. my son was 7 at the time. I can recall us riding the stagecoach going throught the trail and had a robber approach. it was sooo much fun there and they had excellent actors doing the shows. it was like living the real life back then seem sooo real. just wish they could bring all that back soo the kids can now enjoy the life of cowboys and Indians the rodeo they had there was excellent also. it was just great. now I watch the frontier town shows on my computer but being there was much much better..we miss Frontier Town very much

@roydineen8768 7 жыл бұрын

sure would be nice to see it reopen again.. I can remember going there with my son and his mother back in the 80s.....seems soooo sad to see the place in ruins. would also be nice if a person bought the land and was able to get funds to rebuild it back up.....

@MrDjh66 7 жыл бұрын

Going to go check this out this summer when I go up to my cabin in forestport take the dirt bikes there for a nice ride

@gimliporcupine 7 жыл бұрын

I went there in 1985-6, when I was 4-5yrs old. I was hoping to take my kids but it seems to have closed when I was 17. My son would've loved it.

@johnbernard9999 8 жыл бұрын

I went there when I was about four years old, in the Fifties. I recall shoot-outs and I think, a train ride...

@raynic1173 4 жыл бұрын

Didn't they do a wild west show?

@WitchidWitchid 7 жыл бұрын

I remember staying at the motel and having breakfast at that restaurant back in the late 80's/early90's. It must have closed down soon after

@WilliamAlexanderVT Жыл бұрын

Just to let everyone know that Frontier Town (or what formerly remained of it) no longer exists and is now been totally remade over as a campground/recreational area. So if you plan to visit now in hopes of seeing what is in the video, it looks totally different.

@O___00 6 жыл бұрын

REASON FOR CLOSURE: NY STATE made the property taxes so high, the owners went into default.. *Basic economics lesson to be learned via the NY State Legislature --> You can't tax everything exponentially without destroying the very revenues the state needs to operate.

@lisalavender2376 5 жыл бұрын

So very true...and so very sad!!! It was a fun place to visit and right across the street is a nice campground too.. My parents owned a place down Blue Ridge Rd...and since they went under we always wished something would take it's place, though there never would be another Frontier Town!!!

@autumntaylor2533 6 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t be surprised to see an actual tumbleweed roll by...

@ironcast 7 жыл бұрын

I have pics of my son and nephew on rides at this park from a bit over 30 years ago. My son is 38 now and was probably around 5 or less in the pics.

@antoniagouvatsos45 8 жыл бұрын

I used to come here all the time as a kid, what a shame

@jenny1a2a 7 жыл бұрын

facebook.com/FrontierTownThenAndNow has more articles and history on the theme park that attracted over one million visitors. It also inspired the Frontierland at Disney in the 1950s. I added a Frontier Town Playlist including digitized 16mm films and a western pilot shot at Frontier town. Search Frontier Town playlists. It has more than 70 related videos.

@WilliamAlexanderVT 7 жыл бұрын

The Facebook page above is highly recommended. Lot's of great stuff to enjoy!

@robertprata9451 8 жыл бұрын

im 60 years of age now my parents took me there when I was 5 ,7 and 10 years old .unreal how time fleets by

@blenkimcclapper7073 4 жыл бұрын

surprised nobody is patrolling the place keeping trespassers out. there was local enforcement maybe they gave it up too.

@hobbygamer6220 4 жыл бұрын

can ANYONE tell me ALL or at least SOME, hopefully sufficient information to find, that...childs initiation into the army theyd hold here b4 frontier town closed, and then they obviously kept that act together and indeed took it on the road, as shown on "Americas funniest home videos", where they would tell, indeed little 6 yo boys "and you're not going to see your parents again for a long time", whole bunch of little, I dare state VARIOUS ages, children gathered together to "join" the army, with this guy in the frontier version of American general costume, DOING the initiation. anyone remember this/maybe experienced it somewhat recently ? I'm looking for where they took this program after frontier town closed down, where they're doing this now ? any information would be appreciated

@bluemantom77 5 жыл бұрын

I been hear when I was 6. In 1983 good times hear cool place I'm ever going to whiteface mountain having bugs shooting in my mouth going white-water rafting with my dad going to the Catskill game farm remember give it a bear Pepsi-Cola

@jesrusso4682 5 жыл бұрын

I have lots of clean 16 mm footage from the 60's and 70's of that place that my dad shot and would love to edit it and post...but I'm not sure about the music copyright BS

@uniqueexistence9064 5 жыл бұрын

Jes Russo would love to see it!'