Dogpatch Marble Falls Arkansas

Dogpatch usa was a commercial success in its early years.

Dogpatch marble falls arkansas.

The historic resort offers a hotel restaurant and large convention center. The hub motel marble falls. Marble falls known as marble city from 1840 1883 willcockson from 1883 1934 and dogpatch from 1966 1997 is an unincorporated community in newton county arkansas united states it lies along arkansas s national scenic 7 byway between harrison and jasper the marble falls post office is located in the parking lot of the now defunct theme park called dogpatch usa. Marble falls ar what might be the most talked about abandoned theme park in america is under new ownership.

Marble falls resort and restaurant formerly the hub at dogpatch is located in northwest arkansas. The modest profits of dogpatch usa were not sufficient to keep the two parks afloat and odom already 2 million in debt was forced to borrow an additional 1 5 million in the unfavorable financial atmosphere. The historic resort offers a hotel restaurant and large convention center. It s most known for the name it acquired in 1966 dogpatch.

Is a wonderland of opportunity. Marble falls resort and restaurant formerly the hub at dogpatch is located in northwest arkansas. The former historic theme park dogpatch u s a. Everything is still here it s just incredibly overgrown says new owner charles bud pelsor.

See 72 traveler reviews 33 candid photos and great deals for the hub motel ranked 1 of 2 hotels in marble falls and rated 4 of 5 at tripadvisor. With a perpetual 4000 gpm spring of cold water that feeds its trout farm and fortified multiple lakes a grist mill and the magnificent marble falls the mill creek headwater spring is a continual source of water to the nearby buffalo river and national park 3 mi away. Discover dogpatch usa in marble falls township arkansas. A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn t even sell on ebay after it closed.

Dogpatch usa was a former theme park based on the comic strip li l abner created by cartoonist al capp and set in a fictional village called dogpatch. Plans are in the works to renovate the old dogpatch theme park. The mild winter weather which visited arkansas through the mid 1970s proved to be the undoing of marble falls as a ski resort and its snow cannons and slopes sat idle much of the time.