The Canyons are found North of the City of Newton on Texas 87, then 6.7 miles east on FM 1414, and then 1.8 miles of unpaved roads. Tourists have hiked the famous Wild Azalea Canyons since the early 1800’s. Directory – Businesses / Fishing Guides / Reviews.Solunar Charts – Best Fishing & Hunting Times.Print Headline: Dogpatch USA is sold for $1.
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In 1968, the first full year of operation, the general manager reported that Dogpatch had 300,000 visitors. Nance said he couldn't reveal the buyer's name then either.Ĭonstructed in 1967 for $1.33 million, Dogpatch USA originally featured a trout farm, buggy and horseback rides, an apiary, Ozark arts and crafts, gift shops and entertainment by characters from Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip, according to the Central Arkansas Library System's Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The auction was postponed for two months pending contract negotiations. The Robertsons took out a second mortgage on the property in 2014 in the amount of $1.2 million, according to the lawsuit.Ī decree of foreclosure indicated Great American Spillproof Products owed $1,031,885 on the 400-acre property.ĭogpatch was to be sold on the Newton County Courthouse steps in a foreclosure auction March 3, but then a "solid buyer" surfaced, Nance said in February.
The Robertsons are listed as defendants in the lawsuit, along with David "Shawn" Smith, who had a $2,840 lien on the property. The mortgage holders filed suit in September against Great American Spillproof Products after it fell behind on lease payments and missed a balloon payment for the total amount due in August. Nance, who lives in Eureka Springs, his son John Pruett Nance of Rogers and their attorney Gregory Brent Baber of Little Rock held the mortgage on the property. Pelsor had been trying to sell the Dogpatch property since 2016, with the asking price dropping from $3 million to $1.25 million. Pelsor envisioned turning Dogpatch into an "ecotourism village," but those plans soon fell through. Besides a $1 million promissory note, they paid $1 million. bought the Dogpatch property for $2 million in 2014. "It's closed, sold and funded," Clifton said.Ĭlifton said the buyer's agent was Booker Cox III of Foggy River Realty in Hollister, Mo.īoth Clifton and Cox also said they couldn't provide additional information because of confidentiality agreements.Ĭharles "Bud" Pelsor, one of the previous owners of Dogpatch, said the same.ĭoing business as Great American Spillproof Products Inc., Pelsor and his business partners - James and Susan Robertson of Newbury Park, Calif. Jeff Clifton, an agent with Mossy Oak Properties, said he also had the Dogpatch property listed for sale. Morris developed Big Cedar Lodge and Dogwood Canyon Nature Park, both of which are in southern Missouri only a few miles from the Arkansas state line.
Attempts to reach Johnny Morris, Bass Pro's founder and CEO, were unsuccessful Thursday.
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Springfield, Mo., is home to the headquarters of Bass Pro Shops. "All of us are hopeful the new owner will help restore the area and make it available to the public, but no plans were divulged," Nance said. Stewart Nance, one of the listing agents, said he couldn't provide more information because of a confidentiality agreement.
"The new owner's plans for the property were not divulged but his representative assured it will be good for Arkansas," according to a short news release that described the property as a "400-acre nature and water wonderland." The buyer is Down By the Falls LLC, which was incorporated in Delaware on May 28 but has a Springfield, Mo., residential street address.Ĭantrell-Griffin Business Brokers of Springdale announced the sale Wednesday, saying the buyer was unnamed and the sale amount was undisclosed. The abandoned Dogpatch USA theme park in northwest Arkansas has been sold for $1.12 million, according to paperwork filed in Newton County Circuit Court in Jasper.
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