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author: Jan Brennenstuhl
categories:
- Urban Exploration
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  alt: 'Joyland: Abandoned Amusement Park'
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date: '2011-08-24T10:29:21Z'
description: Including a wooden roller coaster and Western building attractions, the 1949 built, abandoned Joyland Amusement Park in Wichita, Kansas is nowadays a playground for urban explorers. Watch this film and you know what I mean...
tags:
- Theme Park
- Wichita
title: 'Joyland: Abandoned Amusement Park'
url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/joyland-abandoned-amusement-park/
---

# Joyland: Abandoned Amusement Park

Building theme parks and never using them is not just a Chinese problem (remember the [abandoned Wonderland](/ghost-wonderland-abandoned-theme-park/))! Also in the US you can find abandoned and decayed amusement parks like the so-called *Joyland* in Wichita, Kansas, which comes with fabulous sad images of forgotten days with a lot of fun...

Opened in 1949, the *Joyland Amusement Park* was once the largest theme park in central Kansas and operated for 55 years until it closed in 2004 due to financial problems. With its wooden roller coaster, Western buildings and other attractions this abandoned theme park seems to be a playground for urban explorers and photographers.

Watch the nice video taken by Mike Petty in the park and tell me if you know any comparative places in Europe except the [abandoned Spreepark](/abandoned-places-berlin/) in Berlin!

For more info about the history of the *Joyland Amusement Park* in Kansas, read the corresponding [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyland_Amusement_Park_(Wichita)).