For many years, Joyland attracted Wichita residents to the south-side amusement park. The site of vandalism & fire, it’s been closed for years.

The Eagle has been running a series of articles in the past week about the place of Joyland in Wichita’s history. Read here about whether the city will ever get another amusement park and here ...

WICHITA, Kansas – A Wichita icon is being demolished. Wrecking crews are at the old Joyland Park this week continuing to bring down the buildings and hauling them off. “As a teenager, we would ...

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The rise and fall of Joyland Amusement Park, a Wichita, KS icon. A Wichita icon is remembered in this special. Joyland Amusement Park was a fun destination for decades until its sad demise.

For decades, Joyland’s Louie the Clown played the Wurlitzer Style 160 “Mammoth” Military Band Organ. The Wichita amusement park closed in 2006. Advertisement ...

WICHITA, Kansas – Louie, a mascot for an amusement park in Wichita, Kansas, has been found in a sex offender’s home. Louie went missing more than a decade ago.

A glimmer of hope for a Wichita amusement park has been snuffed out once again. Joyland, which served the Wichita area for more than six decades, closed in 2006. A nonprofit had sought to raise ...

Louie the Clown’s long nightmare has finally ended. Nearly a decade after he went missing, the beloved mascot at Wichita’s Joyland amusement park is free again and was to be re-introduced ...

WICHITA, Kan. — A convicted sex offender has been ordered to spend a year and three months in prison in the theft of a nearly life-sized carved clown that was the mascot of a closed Kansas ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A fire has started on the grounds of the former Joyland Amusement Park in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that the fire started Tuesday afternoon and consumed both grass ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - If you’re heading to the theater next month, be prepared for a bit of nostalgia. Music Theatre Wichita will conduct seven performances of “Cats” from Sept. 6-10 at ...