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Thousands of former employees and visitors of a “Wizard of Oz” theme park will descend on the long-abandoned site in North Carolina this weekend for a two-day festival.

It’s the 20th anniversary of the “Autumn of Oz” festival, which, for just weekend a year, opens the gates to the derelict park in Beech Mountain, N.C. In the park’s heyday during the 1970s visitors would stroll down the Yellow Brick Road with Dorothy and her pals, take in a show at Emerald City or take a “balloon ride” overseeing the park.

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The Land of Oz theme park opened in 1970 with 20,000 visitors on opening day and closed in 1980, several years after its original owner died and Emerald City burned down in a mysterious fire. Oh my.

The park is missing a few of its original pieces. The Yellow Brick Road could use some roadwork; the Wicked Witch of the West’s castle has been deserted; Emerald City is long gone. But volunteers have been working on restoring the park, which sits on 450 acres on Beech Mountain, one of the highest towns east of the Rocky Mountains.