 On July 4, 1991, the park was re-opened for the day as part of the town of Beech Mountain's Independence Day celebration and as a kickoff to the redevelopment of the property into a condo complex.Visitors rode the ski lift up from the base of the adjacent Ski Beech.Watauga High School in nearby Boone, N.C. had staged a production of "The Wizard of Oz" as its spring musical a few months earlier and the student actors appeared in character and in costume to greet visitors as they came off the ski lift.