Spiraling maintenance costs were to prove the death knell for the park. In 2009 high operating costs saw Ghost Town’s owners declare bankruptcy. Businesswoman Alaska Presley bought the Ghost Town property at auction two years later, but by 2016 she had given up any hope of reopening the park permanently.

When Presley passed away in 2022, her niece inherited the park. Subsequent legal wrangles have left the future of Ghost Town still in limbo.

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