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Beyond the Ozarks

The Rise and Fall of Dogpatch USA

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published August 24, 2020 at 2:16 PM CDT

A photo at Dogpatch USA taken in 1968 by Mike McCormick.

Dogpatch USA was developed in the late 1960s in the Arkansas Ozarks. Archives provided by the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History take us through the best days of the amusement park and through the beginning of the end with the introduction of a snow skiing attraction.

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Kyle Kellams

Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.

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