Six Gun Territory
A former amusement park in Ocala, Florida, Six Gun Territory is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Demolished western-themed attraction now associated with a developed residential area. HauntHunt files it with demolished sites and former amusement parks. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is gone; what remains is the record and the ground it stood on.
Former attraction is no longer a visitor park; present residential property is private.
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Is Six Gun Territory haunted?
No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.
The record — long form
Six Gun Territory was Florida's pre-Disney frontier — the two-hundred-acre Western town that opened on Silver Springs Boulevard in February 1963, where visitors rode a wood-burning narrow-gauge train through staged Indian attacks into a mock frontier with can-can dancers at the Palace Saloon, hourly gunfights, a Mexican border town, and a territorial undertaker named Digger. For two decades it was one of Florida's premier stops, and Ocala's motels and restaurants went Western to match.
The timing was fatal. Walt Disney flew out of Ocala scouting sites in November 1963, and when the Magic Kingdom opened in 1971 the roadside attractions of the old Florida were finished. Six Gun sold in 1970, declined through the seventies, and closed for good on January 1, 1984 — a three-day auction, then bulldozers and burn piles. The site is now a residential neighborhood behind a strip mall called Six Gun Plaza.
The file keeps Six Gun Territory: the train ride in, the hourly shootouts, the Disney shadow, and the Western town that Florida built and then erased.
Six Gun Territory is the archive's pre-Disney file — the 1963 frontier park, the 1971 end of the roadside era, and the plaza that holds the name.
Why this file matters
Six Gun Territory is the archive's pre-Disney file — the Western theme park, the hourly gunfights, and the shopping plaza that replaced it.
A fake frontier town keeps its name — the file's suggestion being that Six Gun's hold is the era: the last great roadside attraction before Disney, and the West that Florida imagined and then demolished.
Six Gun Territory was a Western-themed theme park in Ocala, Florida, United States. It opened on February 2, 1963 and closed on January 1, 1984.
Six Gun TerritoryDocumented history
R. B. Coburn announced the attraction in 1962. It closed in 1984; a residential neighborhood now occupies the former park area behind Six Gun Plaza. Six Gun Territory's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Six Gun Territory: Ocala' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
Verified historyFlorida Division of Historical Resources
Sources on file
- 01Six Gun Territory: OcalaFlorida Division of Historical Resources · government · A1
Field notes & open questions
1962 was the announcement date, not a verified opening date. No haunting claim inferred from an abandoned-attraction history.