Sunday, Novenber 1, 1997

The Dartmouth Club's family event of the year helped celebrate the final season at Santa's Village. For 43 years, Santa's Village has been tailored for kids 2-12, their parents and grandparents. It had 14 rides, 10 gift and food shops, a petting zoo, puppet shows and many other attractions, including that jolly old man in the red suit with his reindeer.

Santa's Village is located in Skyforest near Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino mountains, about 1 hour 45 minutes drive from downtown Los Angeles. Buried mile high in a centuries old ponderosa pine forest, Santa's Village provides the closest conditions to a New England Fall that you can find in Southern California.

With his wife Deborah, Bill Grant '78, President of Santa's Village hosted several families of Dartmouth alumni to a delicious chicken and ribs barbecue in the center of one of California's oldest and most beloved theme parks. Bill is pictured at right, with his uncle, J. Putnam Henck, who founded the park in 1955.

Final Season of Santa's Village ends March 1. Click here for details... ask about a special discount for Dartmouth Alumni families.

Currently, The San Bernardino Mountains Wildlife Society has an option to buy the property for a wildlife sanctuary and keep undeveloped land behind the park as a natural habitat.