You'll notice there are no home videos posted of "Vacations At The Mall", with post after post from generations of past shoppers, talking about their favorite store. It takes a special kind of stupid to close a park like this and replace it with a mall that no one has ever liked. Opryland had a special "something", that will never be duplicated and always be missed. So sad.

Traded a diamond for a dog turd.

When I was a kid this place seemed more majical than santa clause

I was a performer in "Music, Music, Music" 1987 in the Roy Acuff Theater. One of the most memorable experiences of my life. It was a joy to work there.

They "paved paradise and put up a parking lot".... and shopping mall.  
😢😩😭😭😭😠😬😬😬

I absolutely loved this place and miss it dearly still today

it will forever be in my heart, my how back then people were so different and happier. Families together, no smart phones

Season Passes!!! That was the talk of the town!!!!

That is what I said when Opryland Closed.  Nashville will never be the same.

Almost 30 years gone & I remember it as my hometown park, despite being from Tuscumbia & Florence, Alabama. It was the place we could spend a day at & only a 2hr drive for us back then. It’s so greatly missed, and nothing like it anymore.

Worked there 3 summers and loved every day. Nashville will never be the same. So much fun to be had and wonderful talent to enjoy.

I forgot how aesthetically pleasing Opryland was. The architecture, the theming, the landscaping. As a kid, I didn’t notice it much, but seeing films of it now, it was a beautiful place. The sounds, and smells as well are all gone. Terry London, with nothing but lies, killed a world destination. A place a child could go every summer, then work every summer. 25 years later, it still hurts.

Opryland and Busch Gardens were my favorite parks growing up. Both were beautifully landscaped, both put a huge emphasis on live entertainment (though Busch definitely spent more on its shows), and both had fantastic rides — including their own railroads.

It’s a real shame that Opryland is gone and Busch was sold off and turned into what feels like a glorified Six Flags. Most theme parks today just feel like generic strip mall carnivals with coasters dropped into parking lots, with maybe Dollywood being the lone exception.

What’s really sad is how live entertainment has practically disappeared from modern parks altogether.   The concept of a show park, which Opryland and Busch Gardens embraced, really made them unique.

Nashville 3 biggest blunders #1. Closing Opryland USA. #2. Closing Starwood Amphitheatre #3. Promoting Pop & Bro Country Music.

The Wabash Cannonball was the first roller coaster I ever rode and started my obsession with them. I loved Opryland. It was a great park for families.

I miss it so much my parents and I always went 3 or 4 times a year in 80s and 90s it was home and became friends with 2 musicians I still talk to one of the them

I miss Opryland almost every weekend. Whenever I get down, I pretend that I and my family are going to Opryland and its 1978. Part of Nashville's soul died when Opryland was destroyed. It was and still is traumatic to thousands.

All of a sudden I'm nostalgic for a place I never got to go. It would have been my favorite place. I did go to Silver Dollar City in Branson a lot and that was my favorite place.

I visited with my family in summer 1977  , when I was 10 years old and again in summer 1981
And there was nothing like it anywhere else!
A BEAUTIFUL PARK WITH BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE AND BEAUTIFUL MUSIC
and now just beautiful memories!

I have lots of fond memories of yearly visits to Opryland from when I was 6 in the early 70s through medical school in the late 80s and early 90s.  I was so sad to hear it closed.  They literally paved paradise and put up a parking lot…and another stupid mall.