Huge $2 Billion Dollar Theme Park Pitched In Rural Oklahoma
According to Theme Park Insider, a new, and extremely expensive, theme park has recently been pitched and would like to be completely finished building and ready to open by 2026.
Mansion Entertainment Group, LLC recently announced American Heartland Theme Park and Resort. This park and resort is a 1,000-acre development outside Vinita, Oklahoma, meaning it will be just over the Missouri border. The resort would include a 320-acre campground with 300 cabins and 750 RV spaces. It also plans to include a 300-room hotel and an indoor waterpark. The resort is slated to open in 2025. However, the main attraction, the 125-acre American Heartland Theme Park, would open in 2026.
THG Creative and FORREC have been hired by American Heartland to design the park. This means that there is a lot of legit talent behind the park’s concept work.
The park itself would include both “heartwarming shows” and “thrilling rides” across the six lands it plans to have. These lands are called Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village, and Electropolis.
American Heartland Founder and Chief Creative Officer Gene Bicknell said “American Heartland will be a place families can come together to create lasting memories, experience joy, laughter, imagination, and wonder. There is so much to celebrate about our country: its landscapes, its cultures, and most importantly, its people. No matter where you’re from, you’ll feel right at home at American Heartland.”
Seems like a strange time to open a theme park with giants like Disney and Universal struggling. But if you have the right formula at the right price this could be a big hit. I would also think the weather may play a factor in the success of the park. It may not be able to be open year-round. We will all have to wait till 2026 to get some of these answers.