Santa's Village- Skyforest, CA
Posted by: calgriz
N 34° 13.757 W 117° 12.834
11S E 480300 N 3787600
A closed Christmas-themed amusement park located in Sky Forest, a tiny San Bernandino mountain community near the ski resort of Lake Arrowhead. Santa’s Village opened on Memorial Day weekend, 1955 over a month before the opening of Disneyland.
Waymark Code: WM8357
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 01/19/2010
Views: 23
The 15 acre Technicolor dreamland with ginger bread houses, and toy shops with the inexplicable giant mushrooms. The theme park included the Bumble Bee Monorail, Whirling Christmas Tree, Gingerbread House, Welcome House and of course, Santa and a always frozen ice, North Pole. Some of the buildings and the monorail use to be visible from the street. It is considered trespassing to view it up close with riding sky buckets in the shapes of rusting, creaking giant bees or a seemingly tame roller coaster with cars like sleighs led by banged-up fake reindeer. Especially memorable was a walk-through Alice in Wonderland attraction featuring dusty, cobwebbed and stunningly amateur dioramas. Now mostly used as a lumber yard, the once joyful attraction of Santa's Village is fading and falling apart.
Video LINK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY0myB7Zd3Y