Not the band Traffic mind you (that we are aware of).Īccording to setlist.fm, the last music acts to play there included Stone Temple Pilots, White Zombie and Anthrax all in the summer of 1993.
Our name pays homage to the production of peppermint oil as a local industry in the early 1800's. Peppermint Park Camping Resort is located on 120 acres of wooded and grassy hillside in the Berkshire Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts. In the 1990s, the hill became the Lone Star Amphitheatre Houston so you could watch concerts next to traffic. as we adhere to CDC and Massachusetts COVID-19 guidelines that may be in effect at that time. Maybe they had a few animals to pet once in awhile? Hey, it was the early 1980s, forgive me on the foggy details for this old Houston theme park. Mountain Park HoustonĪ mountain in flat Houston? Ok, maybe more of a hill.Īs a kid, I remember a large slide and lots of arts and crafts. The Southwest Freeway location became an auto repair shop, but kept the red and white striped outside. Peppermint Park, sometimes known as Peppermint Park Kiddieland, started in Pasadena, then moved to the Gulf Freeway, Loop 610, and in the late 1970s to Highway 59 Southwest Freeway and Beltway 8 at a new white and red striped building.įor those young Houstonians that wanted a chance to get behind the wheel, this place had a track of cars on rails even the kids could “drive.”Īccording to Wikipedia, the final location was in Friendswood. But, a spokesman for Anheuser-Busch later told the Chronicle that attendance fell far short of that number.” Hanna-Barbera Land Houston Gonzalez, “when it first opened, officials expected 800,000 people to visit Busch Gardens during its first year. So why didn’t the 40-acre park last? According to the Houston Chronicle’s J.R. Oh yeah, there was even a temperature controlled area ice cave for the likes of penguins, polar bears and lions…oh my.
PEPPERMINT PARK FULL
And from what I’ve seen online, she was not the only one taking a school bus there.ĭuring the park’s short, two year run, many Houston-area children visited the Asian-themed park full of monkeys, elephants and Bengal tigers according to The Galveston Daily News. Personal note, if I remember correctly, my then teacher mother told me she took her students from her Fort Bend ISD Meadows Elementary class to Busch Gardens Houston as a field trip. But in 1971 Anheuser-Busch thought a theme park next to its brewery, which had opened in 1966, was a great idea. Beer and a kid focused amusement park, a perfect pairing like hot dogs and wine or Houston escape games and Surge Soda (come to think of it, maybe the last two actually go together).
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