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Jungle Habitat
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Forested area interspersed with 42 klicks of paved road leading to absolutely...nothing.
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Type: Outdoors
Status: Abandoned
Accessibility: Easy - Open to public as trails
Recommendation: not very exciting
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A few foundations and pavement remains, mostly reclaimed by nature. 12mi of hiking/mountain biking trails.
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Jungle Habitat was a Warner Bros. theme park that opened in the summer of 1972, and closed in October of 1976. It had about 1500 animals, and was split into 2 sections: A walk through section, Jungle Junction, and a drive through section, Animal Safari Park.
Animal Safari Park has open drive-thru enclosure that allowed animals to approach the cars. Enclosures contained peacocks, baboons, camels, elephants, llamas, giraffes, and Siberian tigers.
Jungle Junction was a small theme park which included a petting zoo, camel and elephant rides, snack bars, gift shop, a reptile house, a dolphin show, and "Bugs Bunny and Friends" live shows with the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes characters.
The park opened with a profit, but sales dropped as the locals lost interest. Loss of interest was attributed to the "same old park", with no new improvements. In 1975 Warner Bros proposed a $20,000,000 expansion with 2 roller coasters, carousel, log flume, and the standard sinning rides. Public was split on expansion, and it never came to fruition. With attendance in the tanks, the shut down after Halloween weekend, 1976.
Direct from Wikipedia: The 800-acre (3.2 km2) Jungle Habitat property, containing 26 miles (42 km) of paved roads, was purchased by the state in 1988 for $1,450,000. The property, adjacent to Norvin Green State Forest and Greenwood Lake Airport, is part of Long Pond Ironworks State Park and is administered by Ringwood State Park. In 2007, under the direction of Ringwood State Park, the Ramapo Valley Cycling Club (a chapter of the Jersey Off Road Bicycle Association JORBA) performed a cleanup of the park, with 70 volunteers contributing. Brush was cleared and trash was removed. More recently, under the management of Ringwood State Park, JORBA built single-track trails designed for bicycle, equestrian, and foot traffic. There were 11 to 12 miles of single-track trails by 2008.
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Possible redevelopment into athletic center.
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Emperor Wang on 6/17/2019 5:15 PM.
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on Jun 17 19 at 17:15, Emperor Wang validated this location
on Jun 17 19 at 12:28, Mr. Bitey changed the following: Street Address, Latitude, Longitude, Co-ordinate Accuracy, History, Accessibility, Interesting Features
on Jan 9 16 at 15:43, Explorer Zero validated this location
on Jan 8 16 at 6:00, Radio2600 updated gallery An old picture
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on Dec 31 08 at 12:03, SaraBellum validated this location
on Dec 31 08 at 5:55, INeedAttention.com changed the following: Owner, City
on Dec 11 06 at 23:50, Emperor Wang validated this location
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