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!

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.

Heading up there this September for the Autumn at Oz event.

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

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.

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!

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.

I remember my mom and dad to me there when I was little. It was so awesome. I wish it had never closed.

God bless this land and this mountain!! Where I am from!

Thanks , Jessie and Sam ! Wonderful job ! Never knew this even existed !

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

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

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.)

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.

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

What a warm, affectionate, nostalgic video. Made me smile.Well done!

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❤❤❤

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.

Great video! This short feature was about as marvelous as the land of Oz! Very well shot and put together!

Awesome love this movie 👍👍👍👍👍

can't wait to see how it goes when it opens back up this fall!

Fred Pfohl, was my magestic gate!!

Kind of like Guntown Mountain near Bowling Green, KY. Sad because this too was left to rot away.

Thanks for such a great piece, keep up the good work.

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.

i went there 6 or 7 times every year since i was 5 to 13 (im 15 and i loved its just so creative)

This place would make for a great creepypasta.

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.

I live in Greensboro - That was kind of you two to make this nice video.

great video

Great job guys !

Great video, it's so sad that we let so many of these places, just close up.

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.

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...

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.

wish you luck in future projects :)

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

2:04 I didn't know Sid and Marty Kroft lived in Oz!

omg posted on my birthday :DD

Cool. Set out to get some answers, but didn't get any. My life is richer now, after watching this documentary :P.

Good video

This "park" displaced locals, treated them like garbage..its suspected some may have done some damage to it (arson) in its later years.

Who came here from exploring with Josh?

Its still open and not abandoned. Its just opened seasonally.

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?

when is the park open again and how do we find out about this? Thanks for the post great video.

and this abandoned park was created 3 year after my mom was born :)

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^

This isn't abandoned it opens once or twice a year.but know it opens every Friday in June I think.

great

Freaking strange to see this after reading the creepypasta story

It's not abondoned. They open it every Friday until June 2016

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?

I live in NC!

From another video someone had posted on KZfaq, it was their home video. We messaged them and asked for permission to use it.

...DONT walk the road...

"I want to go to there" -Liz Lemon

Tht should say :so I can just mute the audio.

More like Return to Oz.

like the return to oz broken but not repairable

"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.

5:10 in... weeping angel in Oz.. go figure! lmao

Since the park reopened like you guys mentioned, is it still open?

When was this made?

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

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.....

i want to help rebuild the park and make it beeter

are you able to explore, or did you ask permission?

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

Its Not Abandoned..

I learned nothing.

It's not abandoned!!!!!

It's not abandoned

@EndlessMike me

I want those 7 minutes back. Boooooring

Trespassing

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.