Ghost Town in the Sky!
The weekend the wife and I drove up to Maggie Valley, North Carolina to visit the newly (re)opened Ghost Town in the Sky. We had a free passes, and I gotta admit that I was pretty excited. Although I should’ve realized it was a bad sign when I told one of my coworkers I was going and his only response was, “Ehh”.
Here’s the deal: You basically take seventeen minute ride up a chair lift to this fabricated old west town, that has old timey stores and gunpowder battles in the street. There’s like 10 shops in the town and six of them are candy stores, which somehow doesn’t seem authentic. Also, after watching the past three seasons of Deadwood I can tell you that not nearly enough people in the ghost town used the word “cocksucker” in their day to day conversations.
We spent less than an hour in the ghost town because it got slammed by a monstrous thunderstorm just after we got there. Matter of fact, as we rode the creaky (and sometimes problematic) chairlift, we couldn’t see the end of the ride, but watched as it pulled us upward into the looming rain clouds. Kinda like a modern day ride on the River Styx.
We only had a moment to snap photos before getting soaked, and here’s one of my favorites - which is soon to be ny new MySpace photo.
Posted on August 26, 2007
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i remember going to the Ghost Town when i was like 11 or 12 and thinking, where are the ghosts? I really did think that this place was no longer in existence. They used to play the commercials for it during the Mr Roper show on WLOS. It looked a lot cooler than it was in real life.
Sounds like it can’t hold a candle to the Enchanted Forest:
http://www.enchantedforest.com/
Oh man! I miss the Enchanted Forest!