If your family has small children in the mix, then a surprise summertime visit to this Christmas theme park in North Carolina will be the time of their (young) life. For one price, everyone can enjoy Christmas in July – or any month from May through November at this Christmas amusement park… because everyone knows Santa is busy after November.

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See what’s in store at this festive amusement park:

Santa’s Land Fun Park & Zoo has been celebrating Christmas seven months out of the year for the last 57 years. Generations of families even make it a tradition to return year after year while the children are still small. Have you ever been to this fun Christmas theme park in North Carolina? We’d love to know!

Admission is $27.67 (+ tax) per person. Children under the age of 2 are free. Address: 571 Wolfetown Road, Cherokee, NC, 28719. Just remember that this Christmas-themed amusement park is open seasonally, with the 2024 season opening May 25, 2024.

For more reasons to love Cherokee, North Carolina, check out a one-of-a-kind horseback waterfall tour.

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