Performers and ex-employees were invited to attend with guests enjoying a special reunion in the park grounds. The park recently held a number of themed events for a select audience to celebrate the upcoming redesign.
But we also plan to update the attractions to compete with the best storytelling experiences in the world and have stronger connections with the park’s location in the Great Smoky Mountains.” We expect to have stunt showdowns, can-can shows, music and entertainment. Matt Ferguson, Storyland Studio’s chief innovation officer, says “We want to bring back everything people remembered and loved about Ghost Town. Leaders of the project are confident that Ghost Town in the Sky will be a success when it reopens to guests in the coming years.
To encourage longer stays, overnight lodging such as a boutique hotel, mountain lodge and cabins are planned as part of the new experience package. With safety standards advancing over the six decades since original construction, new structures will adhere to the most up-to-date regulations, and be fully ADA-compliant. Storyland Studios plans to utilise 3D renderings to guide its work, ensuring the refreshed street is an accurate recreation of the original construction. The new-look attraction will feature retail stores and boutiques on the ground floor of the main street’s buildings, with prospects for dining opportunities. Storyland Studios has been selected to redesign the mountaintop theme park as the project’s experience design firm. However, filled with nostalgia for many locals, Ghost Town in the Sky is set to be revitalised. Resurrecting the ghost townįollowing decades of success, the Buck Mountain-based park saw its gates last open for normal operation in 2012.
One of the main draws was an authentic replica of an Old West main street, as well as later installations including mountainside steel roller coaster “Cliff Hanger”, and a variety of other rides and attractions. The early success of the destination was inspired by and made successful by western films of the time such as The Magnificent Seven and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Storyland Studios, the three-dimensional storytelling firm, has announced it will revitalise a classic theme park attraction.įound in North Carolina’s Great Smoky Mountains, Ghost Town in the Sky originally opened in 1961.