Even adults want to experience some magical adventure in an enchanted forest. That is why couple Blair and MJ Johnson purchased an amusement park that epitomizes a world of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. It also houses a live-in Candy Cane House inside. The 55-year-old property is located in the cedar forests and mountainous area of British Columbia and had been listed on the market for $2.7 million dollars before the couple decided to buy it.
The park was started in the 1950s and it was supposed to be a retirement project for Doris and Ernest Needham. Doris was an artist who crafted the fairy tale figurines by hand, with no molds or guides, using cement. She found the park to be the perfect place to set her handicrafts so she and her husband manually cleared the trails and path as they filled the park with her figurines before they officially opened it on July 1, 1960. Despite being in an isolated location, millions of people came to the park and it was a pretty huge success in the during the years they operated it until they sold it in 1970s. The park passed through several owners until Rocky and Juliet Ehlers purchased it. The Ehlers where the ones who modernized it, having electricity and phone installed among other things. Then according to the listing agent, Steve Daschuk, the owners had been running the park for more than 40 years. He added that they were already ready to retire and pass the park to someone else.
And it was a dream come true for Blair Johnson who had been an avid park visitor since he was four years old, up to the present where as a father he spent time with his wife MJ and their three sons at the park every summer. He says that he and his family knows the park inside and out. He and his wife were not sure that they could afford such property but when it was listed they decided that it was something they wanted to work out and their kids love it so much.
