The thing that I think is cool is that the owners allow the park to be rented for special occasions (parties and weddings) and for smaller private group tours.
And if you want to stay in Dorothy’s house (which is a fully functional house where someone who once owned the land that Oz was built on lived), you can!
Emerald Realty and Rentals handles renting the three bedroom, one bath cottage atop Beech Mountain. It boasts lots of adventure and great views.
There’s a three night minimum rental, and is available June thru October. Prices are:
- $575 for 3 weeknights ($190 for an additional weeknight)
- $630 for a 3 night weekend
- $1,100 for a full week
Is the Land of Oz Haunted?
I didn’t come across any ghost stories related to the former amusement park. I wondered if perhaps one of the men who had created it, Grover Robbins, might still keep watch over it. He died of bone cancer six months before the park opened.
I did come across stories of people who were haunted by it in the nostalgic way favorite places from our youth and adolescence can haunt us though.
It certainly looks like a beautiful place. Here’s a couple of pictures from the Land of Oz Archival Photos section of Emerald Realty and Rentals site that I thought captured it’s essence most poignantly.
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, as well as obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of healing, to learn how she channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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