[nickcarraway]

Today, the closest you can get to this is sometime if your on Roaring Camp Railroad, a troop of actors will reenact a train robbery.

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[ProtectOurFreedom]

When our son was about 2, maybe 3, we took a Sunday afternoon ride on Roaring Camp and the “robbers” attacked the train and boarded our car. My son went absolutely bonkers, crying hysterically. I think he is still traumatized 30 years later.

Don’t ask me about the “Earthquake” at Universal Studios or King Kong attacking our tram car.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Crime doesn’t pay” is such a quaint notion we were taught long ago and then taught our kids. Then Soros figured out he could buy all the big city DAs and crime most certainly DOES pay now.

[moovova]

It's a good thing it's closed. Most of the illegals streaming across the southern border are too short for the rides.

[Tadhg]

Don’t forget Santa’s Village on the other side of the hill.

[Robert DeLong]

There was also a Frontier Village in Jamestown, North Dakota{

Frontier Village in Jamestown, North Dakota

Sounds like it is still there.

[Nateman]

Old Tucson is still in business. The Western frontier theme is still working out there.

Abandoned places have a certain fascination for me. This article reminds me of Gulliver's Kingdom. It was a theme park built in Japan that only lasted 4 years and left some haunting remains until it was finally all removed in 2007.

[Disambiguator]

My family used to go there occasionally back in the 70s. Fun place!

[Beowulf9]

Kinda reminds me of Michael Jackson’s Neverland. I wonder if he went here and it inspired him.

[irishjuggler]

I was at Frontier Village a couple times, the last time c. 1977 on free tickets given away by KBHK Channel 44. In hindsight, those perennial ticket giveaways pushed on Bay Area kiddie TV were a sign that Frontier Village was desperate to goose its visitor numbers.

[SteveH]

as i recall, it was very easy to catch trout in the trout ponds. you would pay a couple of dollars, they would let you into the ponds area and give you a fishing rod and some bait.

my childhood friends and i thought about it and decided that it was too easy. how could they make the trout bite? the answer, we guessed, was that they were starving the fish so much that they felt hungry and bit anything offered to them.

i also have a dim recollection of the stagecoach trail being noticeably parallel to and somewhat close to the monterey highway at some places.

other than this, it was a fun park for young kids.

[Nifster]

It was a lot of fun and closer than the Boardwalk

[SunkenCiv]

A museum showing blow-ups of vintage post-mortem photos of dead Wild West outlaws would have done more to reinforce the "crime doesn't pay" thing.