Mike Hutmacher The Wichita Eagle Former Joyland owner Stanley Nelson told stories of the amusement park’s golden years in 2009. Mike Hutmacher File photo An early photo of the newly built roller ...

The owners of Joyland Amusement Park are putting the land up for sale. Joyland opened in Wichita in 1949 and permanently closed in 2006. Since then, the former amusement park has fallen to ...

Joyland closed for good in 2006. Since then, it has been the victim of time, weather, vandals, and arson. Little remains of the beloved amusement park, but there are still traces of it in Wichita.

Nearly a decade after he went missing, the beloved mascot at Wichita’s Joyland amusement park is free again and ... according to Kansas Department of Corrections records. He is serving his ...

A glimmer of hope for a Wichita amusement park has been snuffed out once again. Joyland, which served the Wichita area for more than six decades, closed in 2006. A nonprofit had sought to raise ...

The rise and fall of Joyland Amusement Park, a Wichita, KS icon. A Wichita icon is remembered in this special. Joyland Amusement Park was a fun destination for decades until its sad demise.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A fire broke out on the site of the Joyland Amusement Park Saturday night around 7 p.m. The park is located on East Wassall Street. Wichita Fire Department works to ...

Louie the Clown and other items missing from the one-time Joyland Amusement Park in Wichita were found in February ... that was the mascot of a closed Kansas amusement park. Damian Mayes, 41 ...

The amusement park first opened in 1949. For decades, Joyland’s Louie the Clown played the Wurlitzer Style 160 “Mammoth” Military Band Organ. The Historic Preservation Alliance of Wichita ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WICHITA, Kan. — The owners of the ...

The local amusement park on South Hillside was once the place to go for families and the site of local company events. It’s been closed for years, but many Wichitans still have fond memories of it: ...