{"id":33062,"date":"2009-08-07T10:48:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=33062"},"modified":"2009-08-07T10:48:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:48:25","slug":"deer-park-closes-as-owners-too-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/08\/07\/33062-deer-park-closes-as-owners-too-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer park closes as owners ‘too old’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebriel<\/strong> sends along this article about the closure of NZ’s Deer Park, a filming location for many scenes in LOTR (notably the flight of the Rohan refugees to Helm’s Deep and Aragorn’s fall over the cliff). Queenstown tourist attraction Deer Park Heights has been closed to visitors after nearly 40 years. Owner Frank Mee said he was closing the park, but it was not for sale. He said the park had been making money and was “very popular”. “Everyone is going bankrupt in Queenstown, but we are not. . . we’re just getting too old, so we’re giving up,” he said. Mr Mee was born in 1922 and he, and his wife Jean, opened the park in 1970. More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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