Along Highway 7 between Jasper and Harrison sits an iconic attraction, a place treasured by so many: Dogpatch USA. The park has been closed for almost three decades, but the memories are still vivid.

For those of us of a certain age who were raised in Arkansas, we still think of Dogpatch USA when we hear Newton County mentioned. Dogpatch, many believed, would turn this remote, sparsely populated ...

Jeff Carter Productions has been working on a documentary about "Dogpatch USA" that will premiere in May on the 50th anniversary of the opening of the park. Click here to learn more about the ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Though long abandoned, Dogpatch USA was arguably the country's ...

Not long after Silver Dollar City got its start in Branson, Arkansas got its own theme park about half an hour away called Dogpatch USA. It was based on the Li'l Abner cartoon strip. Those of a ...

A Kentucky Missouri TV station reports on progress by Charles Pelsor to restore the former Dogpatch USA theme park at Marble Falls in the Arkansas Ozarks. Charles Pelsor, who made a fortune ...

A small broadcasting company based in Las Vegas appears to be behind a reported leasing of the 400-acre former Dogpatch USA theme park in Newton County, Arkansas. That might sound vague. That's ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Bud Pelsor is leaving Dogpatch. He’s moving to his home state of Indiana, where he plans to manage a “16-year-old guitar prodigy” from Oklahoma. Pelsor, 69, the inventor of a ...