Wild West World - RIP

If any of you have the new Wild West World theme park, north of Wichita, on
their Midwest travel
itinerary you'll need to modify you plans. The park, which opened in May,
closed yesterday and filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Reasons cited were 50 of
60 days of rain since the May opening, the early May tornados including
Greensburg, startup cost overruns and lack of starting capital.

In other words no money + bad luck. Kills a lot of businesses.

Still lots to see in this area including museums, Cosmosphere in Hutch,
Discovery Place, etc.

RonB

> I stayed there two, or was it three, years ago. Then it was just a
> dinner theatre and the Hopalong Cassidy museum.
>
> The campground was just a gravel lot with hookups sticking up. A
> friend, in her Airstream, and I were the only ones there. The dogs had
> a blast running off leach. <g>
>
> Sad to hear that it went under, nice people ran it.
>
> Hunter

You make a good point that I should have made in my original post. The
Theme park that failed is north of Wichita (actually Park City, a suburb).
The Prairie Rose Supper Club which is North of Andover, an East Wichita
Suburb. As of this mornings paper, Prairie Rose Supper Club is a separate
business which remains unaffected - Prairie Rose REMAINS OPEN.

And yes they are nice people.