"Beech Mountain in Avery County is certainly the actual asian United States' top city, on 5,606 yards above sea degree. Neighborhood residents share your mountain with various resort communities as well as Ski Beech, some sort of well-liked ski resort. During the 1970s Beech Mountain had been also residence in order to this Land associated with Oz, your idea park that will offers taken it is set amid the rich folklore of the actual Appalachian Mountains.

Through that early aspect of that twentieth century, Beech Mountain ended up being component regarding a great crucial logging sector. Though sparsely populated, it ended up being dotted along with small cabins somewhere loggers lived all through the full week when some people proved helpful. Skiing arrived in order to any mountain commencing within the particular 1930s, using  university students via neighborhood Lees-McRae Higher education working with skis manufactured with the college's raw material shop.

Yellow Brick Highway, Land of Oz. Image courtesy associated with Flickr buyer _rockinfree. That Robbins brothers-Grover, Harry, plus Spencer-purchased a new massive tract regarding land on major associated with the particular mountain inside 1962. The Robbinses, that additionally owned Tweetsie Railroad as well as this Hound Ears Resort, joined with some other traders for you to make your Carolina Caribbean Company around 1965. Carolina Caribbean planned some sort of 10,000-acre resort using homesites pertaining to 5,000 family members, a great eight-slope ski resort, your the hot months recreation spot, a golf course, along with your subject park. Grover Robbins enlisted Charlotte artist along with designer Jack Pentes for you to produce a great concept pertaining to your theme park the fact that would draw individuals in order to your mountain in the course of any off-season. Pentes dreamed of a new set of which would likely enchant folks in addition to let them that will escape the particular tough realities involving the actual late 1960s.

Pertaining to inspiration Pentes drew on  classic kid's tale of enchantment together with escape, The particular Wizard associated with Oz, owning mentioned your similarity among gnarled beech timber on the actual possession plus the chatting apple woods with that story. Together with the enable of a couple fellow Charlotteans, composer Loonis McGlohon and choreographer Alice Lamar, Pentes developed that involving Oz theme park. Whenever it's initial season was over within your fall of 1970, attendance acquired hit any six-figure make. Out of scorching air balloons and the magical cyclone that will flying monkeys plus happy songs, the Land associated with Oz allowed visitors for you to dwell every single instant involving any famous adventure regarding by themselves as many people walked any fifty five,000 bricks connected with any park's yellow brick road. Site visitors have been joined as a result of every single connected with the beloved heroes due to the fact that they will trafficed Kansas, Munchkinland, the actual Wicked Witch's Fort, and the particular Emerald Metropolis.

Inside 1975 your Carolina Caribbean Company went bankrupt. Shortly afterward, vandals collection fireplace to your Emerald Metropolis and stole Judy Garland's original gown together with other artifacts because of the particular park's Oz museum. The actual Land of Oz, currently hit as a result of the absence associated with repeat prospects, certainly not recovered. Because the particular premises adjusted hands, this park dropped target to be able to some sort of deficiency involving dependable management plus bad funding, closing within 1980.

The possession seemed to be bought within 1990 by your Emerald Mountain advancement company, that designed homesites on 450 acres about the actual good old theme park. Each tumble, Emerald Mountain maintains an Burnt with Oz get together, in which followers connected with your Land connected with Oz may require your nostalgic stroll decrease the orange brick road in addition to notice remnants associated with any idea park in which have got been recently thoroughly preserved. Other artifacts out of the park will be upon present in the Appalachian Cultural Museum with Boone."